Developing sustainable relationships, partnerships and brokering of initiatives.
The LLEN will facilitate partnerships and broker initiatives between education and training providers, other local service providers, local communities, industry and other LLENs.
The primary focus of the partnerships and initiatives is to improve education, training and employment outcomes for all young people 15 to 19 years old, with a particular focus on those young people who are at risk of disengaging, or who have already disengaged from education and training and are not in meaningful employment.
The partnerships facilitated by the LLEN need to be developed in a local context while at the same time focussing on the following government initiatives:
- Managed Individual Pathways (MIPs)
- School Based Apprenticeships (ASBAs)
- Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL)
- VET in Schools (VETiS)
- On Track Connect
- Transition Support Workers (where applicable)
- Maintaining the Advantage (Youth Guarantee, Skill Stores)
- TAFE Area Planning Groups
- Blueprint for Government Schools (School Accountability Improvement Framework)
- Young Learners in ACE Strategy
- Neighbourhood Renewal Program and Commonwealth initiatives (Local Community Partnerships, Youth Pathways Program etc)
It may be necessary at times for more than one LLEN to work collaboratively with the same partners to attain greater leverage, and to achieve the best outcome for young people and local industry.
In articulating policy advice to VLESC on state-wide policy and program issues, LLENs are expected to liaise with other LLENs to provided consolidated advice.
The LLENs’ role excludes the direct provision of services to young people. The purpose of this exclusion is to maintain the capacity of LLENs to effectively perform their facilitation and brokerage role.
Annaul Report 2010