Walsall EBP - Achieving Success Together
About Us
WALSALL EBP MISSION STATEMENT
"Walsall EBP seeks to encourage greater links between schools, colleges and employers to raise awareness of what happens both inside and outside schools. These links will provide insights and understanding for employers and school staff and help raise the aspirations and achievements of students, to allow them to maximise their potential and enable them to become part of a skilled and adaptable workforce"
BACKGROUND - Exciting Times Ahead!!
Walsall, with a population of approximately 300,000, is a town with a proud industrial heritage and is internationally famous for the quality of goods produced by the leather trade.
Although proud of its past, Walsall is looking eagerly to the future with plans to spend around £750 million in transforming and revitalising the town between now and 2015. Work on £15 million improvements to the Ring Road around Littleton Street has just begun which will help Walsall to capitalise on its closeness to major transport links. Investment will also be made to develop canal-side areas and rejuvenate and improve derelict land as well as improving schools and adult training to ensure that local people are able to take advantage of the anticipated 5,500 new jobs and the building of 1600 new homes.
Walsall EBP operates within the Walsall boundary and has strong links with the other three Black Country boroughs - Dudley, Sandwell and Wolverhampton. Walsall EBP works with schools and colleges across the borough and offers a range of activities and opportunities to link education with business with the aim of improving the employability skills of young people.
EBP BOARD AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
- To be the focus for drawing together education and business
- To involve the whole of the business community in the partnership with education.
- To develop a mutual understanding of the needs of education and business and contribute to meeting them.
- To encourage students to maximise their potential through learning and experience.
- To maximise the effective use of available resources
EBP BOARD ORGANISATION
The work of Walsall EBP is overseen by a well-established Board that benefits from representation from a wide range of local partners:
Black Country Chamber of Commerce & Industry
Operations Manager, Walsall Division
Member company representative
Employers
Representatives from seven local companies - one of whom is elected Chair
Connexions
Walsall Operations Manager
Education Walsall
Director for Learning - Leadership and Management
Schools
One Primary School Headteacher
One Secondary School Headteacher
One Special School Headteacher
One 14-19 Practitioner Teacher
University of Wolverhampton
School of Education Representative
Walsall College of Arts & Technology
Director of Curriculum 14-19
Walsall EBP
Manager
Walsall Council
Executive Director Children's Services
Two elected members
The Walsall EBP Board has the largest group of employers, in the borough, who meet regularly with a range of other partners to discuss educational issues.
EBP TEAM ORGANISATION
The EBP team members have deliberately been recruited from a variety of backgrounds including working in schools, further education, training and industry. This provides a range of experiences that can benefit the programmes and approaches taken in our work linking schools with the world outside.
The current organisation of the EBP team is:
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