World Class Vision :
Education & Youth Services Ltd (EYS) will become a world-class company over the next three years and is becoming recognised as the brand leader in the provision of education & training services to disadvantaged young people and adults.
A private sector company, EYS provides tailored and flexible programmes that meet the needs of learners and ensures that they progress and can contribute to and benefit from a vibrant economy.
Our vision is to deliver the highest quality education and training, often in sensitive areas, where government agencies and other education institutions have found it difficult to succeed.
This vision has been developed by the five directors all of whom enjoyed successful careers in the public, voluntary and private sector. This innovative company has developed into one of the largest education & training companies in the UK. EYS is a national company with over 200 staff, 25 learning centres and a turnover in excess of £9 million.
Our ambition is to grow and diversify in order to meet the increasingly demanding needs of individuals and to engage more fully with employers. EYS will evolve its existing programmes and services and will take its ethos, motivation and performance driven style to become the leader in new market areas in the UK.
'EYS is not afraid to challenge the status quo to obtain results'.
EYS is a Grade 2 Education & Training Provider Adult Learning Inspectorate April 2005
'EYS was regarded as a 'Top 50' provider by ALI in 2006''
Accreditation
NCFE, ASDAN, OCN, EDEXCEL, CSCS, IIP, ISO9001, MATRIX, Trinity
Directors
EYS was formed in October 2000 and has the following Directors :
Amin Amiri - Chairman
The principal of a2e Venture Catalysts, Amin Amiri, is regarded as an innovative and entrepreneurial corporate financier with impressive accomplishments and a track record of building advisory teams and successfully investing and advising in private companies. Serves on the court of Liverpool University, the CBI Panel of Judges for NW and is patron of Raleigh International in Merseyside.
Richard Atkinson - Chief Executive
A Senior Youth Worker and Area Manager for Hertfordshire County Council who has 20 years experience of working with young people and education professionals.
Chris Taylor - Project Development Director
Graduated in Social Policy and worked for 10 years in the Voluntary Sector, supporting communities and developing youth crime diversionary and education strategies.
Chris Hatten - Operations Director
Chris has worked in Education & Skills for over 30 years at a senior level in schools and for the LSC. He has a wealth of experience in leadership and project management.
Oliver Barkes - Financial Director
Oliver has vast expertise as a financial Director and joined the company in October 2006. He has worked for blue chip companies over the last 10 years.
The directors of EYS formed the company to provide new and innovative ways of tackling the complex needs of disadvantaged and disaffected individuals. EYS transforms the lives of people through applying the passion, knowledge and skills of its staff and by delivering high quality education & training wherever it can benefit local communities.
Even though EYS is a private company, it has worked in partnership with all key agencies and will develop further its collaboration with the public sector, the voluntary and community sector and with other private companies where there are shared passions to provide services to young people and adults who are the fabric of our future communities, civil society and economy.
Currently, EYS works with 17 LSC's local Learning & Skills Council to reduce the number of young people who are not in education, training and employment, the NEET group.
EYS obtained a grade 2 for Leadership & Management
EYS Current Portfolio
EYS delivers education & training services for the following organisations.
- Learning & Skills Council (e2e, Train 2 Gain and Skills for Life)
- Local Education Authorities (Restart & EBD)
- Local Authorities and Community Development Teams
- Schools
- National and Regional and SME companies
- Collaborative activities with other providers
Current Provision
Train to Gain
EYS Workforce Development is a provider of Train 2 Gain in the Eastern Region, the LSC's new scheme to upskill the workforce in England. EYS has formed a consortium 'Training Workforce Alliance (TWA)' which will be delivering skills training and qualifications in the following Industry sectors,
Construction & Health & Social Care NVQ's
We work with companies across the region in the construction & Health & Social Care industry sectors to train and upskill the workforce. We can deliver tailored individual programmes to meet the needs of employers and employees and can deliver the following qualifications which are all delivered 'On-Site' at employers' premises by qualified and experienced Tutors & Assessors,
Construction
Various Craft Skills NVQ Level 2 for Construction Embedded with basic skills (numeracy, ESOL & Literacy), CSCS testing, Health & Safety, Manual Handling and First Aid
Health & Social Care
NVQ Level 2 in Social Care with embedded Basic Skills (numeracy, ESOL & Literacy), Manual Handling and First Aid
Skills for Life (Numeracy, Literacy & ESOL)
EYS delivers ESOL, Numeracy and Literacy nationally utilising Train2Gain funding for employees for companies such as BUPA, Swissport, Select PLC, Bovis Lend Lease, Hilton Care, Service Air, Local Authorities etc. EYS has vast expertise in delivering Skills for Life to companies which are embedded and delivered in a method which relates to employees occupations. EYS often delivers alongside Skills for Life other qualifications such as First Aid & Manual Handling. EYS delivers Skills for Life through our e2e programmes.
Entry 2 Employment (e2e)
e2e is a nationally funded training scheme for 16-18 year olds who are in the NEET priority group - Not in Education, Employment or Training. The aim of e2e is to motivate these young people into education, employment or training.
EYS is the largest provider of e2e in England, operating through a national network of 23 EYS Learning Centres. The company has contracts with 16 Learning & Skills Councils.
EYS delivers a varied e2e programme to meet individual needs and prepare young people for participating in adult life.
This includes:
- Personal & Social Development
- Skills for Life
- Employability Skills
- Careers
- Work Placements
- Construction
- Retail
- Driving
- Sports & Coaching / Health & Fitness
- Care & Beauty
- Parenting
- Music
European Social Fund Projects (ESF)
In the past 3 years, EYS has been successful in gaining a range of different funding opportunities using ESF funds. The company has delivered 6 European Social Funded projects for the Learning & Skills Council and The Department of Works and Pensions in the following areas.
- CIPPLE - Construction Industry Preparation Programme
- ESOL - English Language Training
- Life Skills Plus - programme to add additionally to e2e
- Young Workers - Training programme to stop cycle of low pay and temporary employment of young people
- e2e tutors - Staff training for EYS tutors and other tutors with other providers of E2E
- C2E - Rehabilitation training for adult offenders
- Ambitions - Pre e2e
- YC2E - Pre e2e courses for Young Offenders
- First Step - Pre e2e
- Freshstart - Pre e2e
- Welfare 2 Work - Care and Construction training for unemployed adults
Local Education Authority (LEA) & Schools Funding
Working with an LEA, EYS provides support for pupils aged 14-16 who have Behavioural, Emotional & Social Difficulties (BESD) and who have been excluded from secondary schools. EYS delivers an alternative curriculum and improves pupil behaviour. This project has been operating for 3 years and the company is keen to work with other LEAs in supporting these young people.
Further to this specialist work EYS has created a new area of work with local schools nationwide where EYS has 'Learning Centres' for pupils aged 14-16 who are non-attenders at school or at risk of exclusion. The company is in discussion to extend the E2E programme into the 14-16 age range in 2007. EYS offers 'Restart', a course designed to re-engage pupils in learning and to progress them into employment, training and work based learning.
EYS offers 'Restart', a course designed to re-engage pupils in learning and to progress them into employment, training and work based learning.
Community Projects
EYS works with 2 Local Authorities to deliver crime diversionary projects aimed at young people.
Colleges & Partnerships
EYS has a wide range of collaborative programmes with colleges, training providers, awarding bodies and community and voluntary organisations.
Expansion of Current Provision
Entry 2 Employment (e2e) General, driving, music, sports and parenting & care
EYS will develop 3 new Learning Centres for delivery of e2e courses
FLT (Foundation Learning Tier)
EYS is piloting FLT for the LSC in the Eastern Region for 14-16, e2e and TtG
Construction e2e
EYS has developed 'Construction e2e' for Learners to progress into the construction sector.
Train to Gain (TtG)
EYS will be expanding provision across England through direct and lead contracts and through various partnerships with existing TtG consortia. We will expand current TtG provision in the following areas,
- Skills for Life (NES)
- Construction
- Health & Social Care
- Retail
- Security
- Digital installation
- Skills for Life (Functional Skills) including ESOL
ESF Programmes
EYS will continue to deliver ESF programmes across England and will bid for programmes in new cycles of funding for which the company has the skills to deliver
Restart (14-16 out of school programmes)
EYS will expand nationally on our current 14-16 programmes and develop the new diplomas for school pupils in line with FLT and we will continue to contract with PRU, individual schools and LEA's
Commercial Activities
EYS will develop commercial activities for the 3000+ Learners we work will every year with partnerships with high street retails and service providers
OLASS
EYS will develop offender learning with the LSC and JCP through direct or sub contracts
Financial
EYS contracts approx £9million of public funds per year, our ambition is to grow the company to a turnover of £30 million during the next 3 years
EYS Learning Centres
| Stevenage (3) | Harlow | Basildon | Blandford |
| Bournemouth | Croydon | Leytonstone | Brent |
| Liverpool | Manchester | Lancaster | Carlisle |
| Middlesbrough | Lowestoft | Colchester | Northampton |
| Luton | Peterborough | Wisbech | High Wycombe |
| Oxford | Tipton | Liverpool |
The Future
As a demand led provider EYS has analysed the government's key strategies and identified the following areas where it can support continuity of provision for individuals wherever they are placed in society as per the recent Leitch Report.
EYS will extend its portfolio by building upon its success and maintaining its focus upon raising the ambitions, motivation and achievement of disadvantaged people. EYS has the skills, knowledge and experience to support the following key activities either as a sole provider or by working in partnership with others:
The 14-19 Strategy and Every Child Matters (Department for Education & Skills)
- School Academies;
- Building Schools for the Future;
- Foundation Partnerships;
- Young Apprenticeships;
- school Entry to Employment programmes and other school based programmes;
- extra support for young people leaving care;
- reducing the numbers of young people not in education, employment and training;
- ensuring every young person has a sound grounding in the basics of English and Maths and Employability Skills;
- providing better vocational pathways;
- Foundation Learning Tier
- providing more opportunities and incentives for those that do not achieve level 2 and provide progression to level 2, including Apprenticeships.
The National Skills Strategy (DfES)
- expand participation in Train to Gain;
- support the skills needs and priorities of employers through the Sector Skills Councils;
- Learning Communities;
- New Deal for Skills;
- Skills Academies;
- building progression for adults - basic skills to level 2;
- Framework for Achievement;
- equal opportunities in training and jobs.
Children and Families (DfES)
- provide activities for children out of school;
- tackling homelessness;
- provide early intervention and effective protection by working in multi-disciplinary teams;
- workforce reform.
Improving Offenders' Learning and Skills (Learning & Skills Council, DCSF and Home Office)
- high quality provision for adult and young offenders
- equipping offenders with the skills necessary for successful rehabilitation and sustainable employment
- reduce re-offending rates
Department for Work and Pensions
- support jobseekers in gaining the skills necessary to enter the labour market through the New Deal
