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Connexions with the Private Sector We are working towards giving a comprehensive list here of the companies involved in Connexions partnerships by area. Keep checking back! In the meantime, here is a small selection of some of the information we have: Vosper Thorneycroft, one of the UK's largest arms manufacturers, owns the Careers Management Group. Their careers services have several different names: 'Futures Careers'; 'Careers Enterprise'; 'Enterprise Careers'. These provide Connexions services in many areas of London and the South. Indeed, in some areas representatives of Vosper Thorneycroft were the 'lead contacts' during the planning stage of local Connexions services. Currently they are responsible for careers advice in the following Connexions areas: Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and Southampton, West Sussex, Kent & Medway, Surrey, Bucks, Milton Keynes, London: City, Hackney, Islington, Barking, Dagenham, Havering, Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest. Prospects has a strong involvement with Connexions schemes - and with the management of LEAs - throughout the country, and is responsible for the day-to-day running of Connexions schemes at a local level. In partnership with accountants Pannell Kerr Forster and solicitors Nabarro Nathanson, 'Prospects Education Services' also offers employers a comprehensive array of recruitment and management consultancy services. Here are some of the Connexions careers services in which Prospects is involved: Coventry & Warwickshire, Walsall, Sandwell, London: Barnet, Enfield, Haringey, Bexley, Greenwich, Lewisham, Wandsworth, Lambeth & Southwark, Bromley, Croydon, Sutton, Merton, Kingston. Nord Anglia works for several LEAs, taking over the running of them in some cases. It is an education company whose Chairman was reportedly 'the first to make a million out of PFI'. Nord Anglia is the parent company of 'Lifetime Careers', responsible for careers services in these Connexions areas: South Yorkshire, Greater Manchester, Derbyshire, Wiltshire and Swindon, London: Ealing, Brent, Fulham, Hammersmith, Harrow, Hounslow, Hillingdon. Young Enterprise is an 'educational charity' whose directors and patrons represent companies such as HSBC, CadburySchweppes, Nestle, BaE Systems and Unilever; some are also members of the ERTI They promote business and enterprise education through a variety of initiatives, and are involved with many local Connexions schemes. |