New Changes to Young People’s Advice Services in Bradford

Feb. 3, 2010 - PRLog -- Young people in the Bradford District will soon benefit from changes to the way their information and advice services for young people are run. A contract for the Connexions service is to be awarded to Prospects Services Ltd.
Young people will be able to draw on the company’s wealth of experience in providing information, advice and guidance services across the country, helping them make important decisions about their future. The announcement, made by Bradford Council this week, follows a rigorous procurement process designed to ensure the best possible service to young people and to maximise value for money for council tax payers in the district.
Prospects intends to bring imaginative  ways of delivering the service,  really engage with young people to help them with life changing careers and training options, and act as their trusted advisers on wider issues such as health, volunteering and personal development.
Young people in Yorkshire are already supported by Connexions services run by Prospects, in Leeds, Barnsley and Rotherham. The company has more than a decade of experience in delivering services to 13 to 19-year-olds (13-25 for those with learning difficulties and disabilities) in over 20 areas all around the country.

Prospects offers a wide range of education, guidance, training and employment services – extending from Barrow to Brighton and the West Country to Norfolk. The company is already well established in Yorkshire; it has delivered adult information, advice and guidance (IAG) services in Sheffield since 2004 and is one of the partner companies in Careers Yorkshire and the Humber, the prime contractor for nextstep in the region.
Prospects’ Executive Chairman Ray Auvray said:
“We are delighted that the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council has entrusted us to deliver their young people’s information, advice and guidance services in the years ahead.
In these times of high youth unemployment, our young people have difficulties in making the transition from school or college into work and deserve the best possible support services.

Prospects combines the strength of a large national company with strong localised service delivery, tailored to meet the needs of young people in the Bradford district.  
We have a number of exciting new ideas to improve services and we look forward to discussing these with the Council, schools and colleges, the voluntary sector, employers and youth services as well as with the young people themselves.

We are planning to maintain continuity of service delivery by transferring existing staff into Prospects and through a detailed transition plan.

We are very excited at the opportunity to develop our services in partnership with Bradford Council.”

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Prospects is one of the United Kingdom's leading providers of education, training and guidance services. We provide a wide range of services to government departments, local authorities, schools and colleges, employers and others.