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Education, training and employment for young people

Find Your Future website

If you're not sure what you want to do, the Find Your Future website can help you with important advice, support and decision-making and finding the right path.

Visit the Find Your Future website >>

Youth support service

Our Youth Support Service also provides services for young people aged 13 to 19 years old (up to 25 for young people with special needs). The service manages the delivery of a comprehensive ‘youth offer’ which includes the provision of information, advice and careers guidance to support access to education, employment or training opportunities and the provision of youth work and positive activities.

Not in education or training?

If you are still in education your school or college should provide you with careers information, advice and guidance.

Contact the on-site careers adviser for more information.

If you are not in education, employment or training

Youth Support Service can provide careers advice, information, and support to young people living in Central Bedfordshire who are not in education, employment, or training.

This service is available to young people aged 16 – 19 years old. However, support is available for those who have an Education, Health and Care Plan, are looked after, or are care leavers, and this extends up to 25 years old.

Personal guidance advisers offer impartial information, advice, and guidance around education and careers and support planning for transition, helping young people overcome barriers and make a successful transition to adulthood.

Guidance advisers are dedicated to working with young people aged 13 to 25 years who have an Education, Health and Care Plan, are looked after, or care leavers.

They offer impartial information, advice, and guidance around education and careers and support planning for transition, helping young people overcome barriers and make a successful transition to adulthood.

Telephone: 0300 300 8352
Email: youth.services@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk

Prince's Trust

Finding a job or getting into education and training

Visit Prince's Trust website >>

National Youth Agency

Championing, professionalising and enabling youth work

Visit National Youth Agency's website >>

National Careers Service

Information, advice and guidance on training, learning and work

Visit National Careers Service's website >>

All about school leavers

Helping school leavers get jobs and career paths

Visit AllAboutSchoolLeavers' website >>

Get my first job

Making the first steps towards a career

Visit GetMyFirstJob's website >>

Not going to uni

Alternatives to university

Visit Not Going to Uni's website >>

Apprenticeships

Find an apprenticeship in England

Find an apprenticeship on GOV.UK >>

UCAS

Choose your future

Visit UCAS' website >>

Preparing for adulthood

Equal life chances as you move into adulthood

Read about supported internships on preparingforadulthood.org.uk >>

Disabled students allowance

Help if you are a student with a learning difficulty, health problem or disability.

Read about disabled students allowance on GOV.UK >>