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Parents > Career and training options for your son or daughter
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Career and training options for your son or daughter
In this section you will find practical advice for helping your son or daughter with their future career plans.
As a parent it can difficult to advise you son or daughter about their future career options. There are many options available to them and it can be difficult to know which it the best way to go. Help is on hand though, every young person aged 13-19 has access to a Connexions Personal Adviser, either through school, college or by visiting their local Connexions Centre. Help is also available for you. Below are be handy hints and tips for you and remember you can also contact Connexions for more information. 
What is Connexions? Connexions services provides careers information, advice, guidance and transition support to young people aged 13-19 and up to 25 years for those with learning difficulties and/or disabilities. How do we help your son or daughter? Our job is to help young people with: - Choosing courses at school or college
- Career choices
- Careers information
- Job and apprenticeship vacancies
- Volunteering
- Benefits and finance for learning
- Applying for jobs
- Other concerns like money matters, health, housing and relationships - if we can’t help, we’ll put them in touch with people who can.
Our Personal Advisers are fully trained and qualified to give careers information, advice and guidance. We work with all young people in Leeds between the ages of 13 and 19 (and up to 25 if they have learning difficulties or disabilities).We offer class and group sessions, but most of our work is through 1:1 interviews, providing individual guidance and support as required. If your son/daughter needs extra help, we have specialist advisers who help young people with additional learning needs, other special needs, young parents, looked after children, and young offenders. Whilst your son/daughter is still at school or college we’ll work with them there.Once they’ve left school we can help at one of our Connexions Centres. Please see the Contact Us section for more details. We have a team of staff who work with employers to find vacancies specifically for young people aged 16 to 18 which we advertise in the Connexions Centres and on wyzup – our website designed with and for young people in Leeds. We produce lots of relevant information and hold events for young people.Individual schools and colleges also produce their own information to help young people with their subject and career choices. Publications we produce include: Moving On (a guide for 15-16 year-olds) Get That Job (a guide for young job seekers) Unifaqs (about higher education in West Yorkshire Decisions (for parents of young people with specialneeds) Where Next? (for young people with special needs) Jobfaqs (a guide for job seekers with advanced levelqualifications like A levels) You can help by: - Letting them know you’re interested in their plans, offering support
- Talking with them about their ideas
- Encouraging them with schoolwork
- Keeping in touch with school so that you know how they’re getting on.ding parents’ evenings and talking to the Personal Adviseeerher
- Attending your son/daughter’s careers interview and talking about it together
- Encouraging them to use their Connexions Library at school or college or if they have left school visiting the local Connexions Centre.
How to contact us Tel: 0113 226 2186 Freephone: 0800 10 66 99 Minicom: 0113 226 2111 Fax: 0113 225 9090 Find out about courses and apprenticeships in Leeds on at Leeds Pathways.
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