Parent/Young Person Toolkit

The aim of the Parent Toolkit is for encouraging the dialogue between parents/guardians and young people on the topic of education and options available. One of the issues that came up from young people over the last year, was that young people felt it was difficult for them to discuss with their parents about the options available for them regarding their education. At the age of 14 young people are given the task of choosing what they want to do, however, many young people have found it difficult to make a decision because they are unaware of the options out there for them. They also find that their parents are unaware of the options and therefore they are unable to have discussions together about such topic. The Youth Advisory Board (YAB) have come up with the idea of a Parent Toolkit to help young people and their parents/guardians to have discussions about their future choices and make an informed decision.

The toolkit will provide young people and parents/guardians with an interactive learning process around the four options available:

• GCSE
• Foundation Learning
• Diploma
• Apprenticeship

The toolkit is under production by young people who have structured and decided the format. It will be launched at the start of 2010.