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Achieve

Our Achieve programme delivers the CFO3 contract across the north west. It is funded by HMPPS CFO and ESF.


Achieve is our social inclusion programme that targets offenders who face multiple barriers to employment.  These can include issues like accommodation, substance misuse and issues with mental/physical health, etc.

By targeting such individuals, we aim ensure that people who aren’t currently accessing mainstream provision are supported into jobs.  Our case managers offer intensive support to all programme participants.  By doing this, we aim to provide a smoother journey towards employment and ease reintegration into the local community.

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The programme began in July 2015 and runs until August 2023.

Our award-winning team has a proven track record of delivering His Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service (HMPPS) European Social Fund (ESF) programmes since 2010. Our case managers, partners and sub-contractors, provide specialist services in offender focused education, training, employment (ETE) and social inclusion.

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Connect My Career

Individual career management, helping professionals to build confidence to move on in your career. A people-centred outplacement service for businesses, supporting your employees to move on.

Connect My Career is a service that helps businesses and individuals alike.  We can support businesses with staff facing redundancy, downsizing or internal restructure situations. We can also help individuals to move forward in their careers through personal career development.

Our expert career coaches help staff transition into a new job roles, update job search skills and prepare for the challenges of today’s competitive jobs market.

Our dedicated website explains how our service can help you, your staff and your business.

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All learning is supported by our digital platform, ConnectMyCareer, which offers a full suite of online resources, from CV writing and interview tips to an A.I. interview simulator, letting staff practise new techniques and start the next stage of their career with renewed confidence, positivity and support.

We offer a range of support packages to suit all budgets – from online access to ‘connect my career’ to one-to-one advice with a dedicated career coach.  We also offer executive support for senior staff and employees with specialised skills.

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To find out how we can help call or email Neil McCaskill:
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Connect To Your Future

Connect To Your Future is an engagement & mentoring programme for 15-19-year-olds in Greater Manchester who have been negatively affected by COVID-19.

Greater Manchester Combined Authority awarded Career Connect £5 million from the European Social Fund to deliver this strand of its NEET and Youth Employment Programme.

Connect To Your Future helps young people ‘not in education, employment or training’ (NEET) or at risk of becoming NEET. COVID-19 has had many impacts on young people, including missed education, social isolation and anxiety. Many may feel disengaged from mainstream education and support services.

Our programme provides tailored mentoring and wellbeing support to help them achieve positive career outcomes. Our key workers work with local partners to support young people at key transition points in their career journey. These include leaving school or starting college, training or employment.

Connect To Your Future helps young people to identify their career options and identify learning and work opportunities.  We also offer support and encouragement to help them build self-confidence, motivation and resilience to progress to sustainable career outcomes.

We aim to make a positive difference to the lives of young people.

15-19 and live in Manchester? Get in touch with the Connect To Your Future team via email: [email protected] or call 0162 232 7863.

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You can also contact Career Connect Manchester via email: [email protected] or call 0162 232 7863.

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To find out how we can help call or email Stacey Burgess :
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Education Business Services

We're proud to be one of the most successful providers of career management services to schools and colleges in the UK.

With over 18 years of experience, our team of expert careers professionals give the right advice at the right time.

Our comprehensive careers programmes help schools and colleges to meet statutory requirements and Gatsby Benchmarks and evaluate their impact. We give students the knowledge and competitive edge needed to achieve the best possible career outcomes.  By working closely with our customers, we create distinctive and inspiring CEIAG packages tailored to their specific needs.

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Our services include:

  • One-to-one careers information advice and guidance interviews (including goal-focused action planning)
  • Full cohort reviews, using a range of indicators to target support
  • Evidence-based interventions to enthuse and engage students
  • Consultancy on how schools and colleges can embed the latest labour market information into curriculum subject areas
  • Direct links to local employers
  • Targeted group sessions, depending on student need, including specialist support to develop resilience and personal agency
  • Work experience placements and internships
  • Support with applications to Post 16 education, employment and training opportunities
  • Specialist advice and information regarding applications to Higher Education
  • Employability Needs Assessment using a range of high quality, tried and tested psychometric measures.

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Career Connect has access to the latest information and resources, providing careers advice, coaching and mentoring support that makes a real difference to the lives of students and their families, as they navigate career and learning opportunities.

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To find out how we can help call or email Carmel Skidmore or Chloe Elliott:
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Greater Manchester Education, Training and Employment contract

We support people subject to probation in Greater Manchester to explore and access work and learning opportunities.

GM ETE is commissioned by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) as part of the Greater Manchester’s Integrated Rehabilitative Services (GMIRS).

We operate from probation offices across the 10 boroughs of Greater Manchester: Manchester, Salford, Trafford, Wigan, Stockport, Bolton, Bury, Rochdale, Oldham, Tameside.

Our Key Worker supports the individual to create an action plan designed to help them achieve their learning and employment goals. We provide preparation for interviews, CV support, 1-2-1 and group sessions, job search, support with applications for work or education and access to training and job opportunities. We also deliver job clubs. The individual’s Key Worker will support that person throughout the process.

We have strong community links and work in partnership with a range of training and employment providers to help people on probation overcome barriers and build skills and experience, enhancing their life chances after custody.

We work closely with the other GMIRS providers. We collaborate with them to achieve positive outcomes, innovate and co-deliver to ensure that people on probation receive a seamless path to specialist support, helping to reduce re-offending and creating a successful pathway beyond their time on Probation.

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Professional Training Services

We deliver high quality, nationally accredited qualifications to improve skills in Careers, Advice & Guidance, Coaching and other programmes.

Career Connect is an Assessment Centre for Entry to Level 2 Vocational Qualifications, accredited through Open Awards. This suite of short courses includes employability programmes and individual personal development modules that can be tailored to individual requirements.

We offer flexible, comprehensive training, delivered to suit the needs of individual learners.  Our professional and experienced trainers and assessors work with candidates across many sectors including local authorities, schools, colleges, housing associations and universities.

Our qualifications run from Level 2 to Level 6, including the CEC funded Career Leaders Programme. We are accredited to deliver courses through awarding bodies including OCR, City & Guilds, ILM and Open Awards.

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We have made our courses more accessible by offering face-to-face or distance learning via digital platforms. This allows us to support candidates delivering careers advice & guidance in the UK and around the world. We also have experience of delivering training to speakers of other languages.

Our most popular courses include:

  • Career Leaders (commissioned by the CEC)
  • Advice & Guidance Levels 3 and 4
  • Level 4 Diploma in Career Information and Advice
  • Level 6 Diploma in Career Guidance and Development
  • Open Awards short courses

We are proud of our 98% candidate success rates.

Career Leader Training

Career Connect is a provider of the Career & Enterprise Company’s (CEC) Career Leaders Level 6 accredited course in north west England.  The programme is tailored to meet the needs of schools and colleges, providing a foundation for long-term improvement through blended learning modules (including two training sessions each term), digital resources and personalised support.

Over an academic year, the careers leader will design, implement and evaluate a whole school/college improvement strategy that ensures progress towards achieving and sustaining all eight of the Gatsby Benchmarks.

The programme can be delivered either face-to-face or digitally. Delegates will complete three accredited units from the Level 6 Diploma in Career Guidance and Development and have the opportunity to network, develop lasting partnerships and develop practical strategies for improving their school or college’s careers programme.

Download our brochure to find out how to apply for the Career Leaders programme.

Contact us to discuss how we can support your business or for a quote.

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To find out how we can help call or email Sue Dickinson:
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Supporting Young People

Career Connect has been appointed by Local Authorities across the Liverpool City Region, Manchester and Salford to support young people, to ensure they are engaging with the range of work and learning opportunities.

Our dedicated community teams work alongside local partners, supporting young people with their career planning.  We help young people identify how to move forward with career choices and overcome barriers they encounter. By tracking, we can identify participants who drop out and help them re-engage with education, employment and training.

Navigating the change from school to employment can be difficult for those young people who need extra encouragement and motivation to get their career on track.  We offer a range of methods to help young people turn their career ambitions into reality.  Among these are:

  • Impartial careers advice & guidance based on local labour market intelligence.
  • Support writing CVs and complete application forms
  • Help preparing for interviews

We take time to understand each young person’s career aims, their strengths and areas they need to develop.  Consequently, this helps us to raise young people’s aspirations, including those who are hard to reach and from disadvantaged or minority backgrounds. We show them how our programmes can help them achieve their career goals and guide them through the steps they need to take.

Our teams work in the heart of the community they support, so we’re right where young people need us.  This means they can access the right support to find the right way forward for them.

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