The Parent Perspective

Feb 05 2024 24 ep. 31 mins 18

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This is The Parent Perspective, a podcast hosted by BBC presenter Rachel Burden, and created to help parents and carers support their children in making more informed career decisions with greater confidence, knowledge and understanding. In each episode we will share your experiences of navigating career conversations with your children and provide insights into how the world of work is changing from trusted experts, organisations and employers already working with young people today. It’s time for your perspective to count!

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The Minister is back: Robert Halfon MP and National Apprenticeship Week 2024

Feb 05 2024 35 mins

Rachel Burden is joined by Anna Morrison from Amazing Apprenticeships and, after one year in the job, Minister for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education, Robert Halfon in a special episode to mark the start of National Apprenticeship Week 2024.Rachel and Anna find out what progress has been made in Robert's first year back in the role, we discuss the latest apprenticeship st

The Engineer: how an apprenticeship can kick start your engineering career

Oct 31 2023 25 mins

In the final episode of this series we’re talking about the green agenda and how apprenticeships - particularly in the trade and engineering sectors - can help us hit our targets and live a little more sustainably.Rachel Burden is joined by Santina Bunting who, at the age of just 18 is already well into her degree apprenticeship with civil engineering firm ARUP, has been shortlis

The Options for Re-training: how apprenticeships can lead to a new career

Oct 24 2023 27 mins

After looking at options post-16 and post-18, the third of our three special ‘Options October’ episodes is all about showing you - the parents and carers - that apprenticeships are also a positive option for you if you fancy a career change.Rachel is joined by Karen Cotici, who has left her career in finance to retrain as a nurse, and Marie Doherty, who is the Director of Appre

The Options Post-18: the choices facing 18 year olds

Oct 17 2023 28 mins

University, a gap year, an apprenticeship or maybe a job? Just four of the many options facing 18 year olds leaving college. But how can you help your young people make the right decision?This episode is the second of three in ‘Options October’. Last week we focused on post-16 choices and in the third of the three we'll look at ‘retraining’, but in this episode, it’s all

The Options Post-16: what are the choices facing our 16 year olds?

Oct 10 2023 42 mins

Have there ever been more options available to a 16 year old leaving school?!This episode is the first of three in ‘Options October’. In later episodes we’ll focus on post-18 choices and ‘retraining’, but in this episode, it’s all about the options open to young people post-16, after their GCSEs.Joining Rachel are Lisa Capper MBE, who is the Principal of Stoke-on-Trent

The Army: why apprenticeships are so important to the British Army

Oct 03 2023 31 mins

In October 2023, the nation’s number one apprenticeship employer, the British Army, celebrates 100 years of offering apprenticeships - but what does an apprenticeship in the British Army look like? What options are available? And how do you go about getting on an Army apprenticeship?To answer those questions and plenty more, host Rachel Burden is joined by Colonel Craig Terblanch

The Diversity: how employers are supporting diversity in apprenticeships

Sep 26 2023 30 mins

In this episode, we're finding out how employers are supporting real diversity in apprenticeships? And asking, how does that impact diversity in the workplace?Host Rachel Burden is joined by Kasim Choudhry, Multicultural Apprenticeship Ambassador & Event Project Manager at skills provider Pathway Group, and Anna Morrison, the founder and director of Amazing Apprenticeships.The

The Masterchef: how a first job can become a career

Sep 19 2023 26 mins

So many young people start their working lives in sectors like retail or hospitality, but how can they turn that first job into a career? In this episode of the Parent Perspective, host Rachel Burden is joined by someone who has done just that.Louisa Ellis reached the final three of Masterchef: the Professionals back in 2017 before returning to win a special festive episode in 2020

The Alternatives: the unexpected places an apprenticeship can take you

Jul 11 2023 35 mins

We're exploring some of the more unexpected places that apprenticeships can take you in this episode of the Parent Perspective. Host Rachel Burden speaks to Richard, the apprentice manager at FCDO Services, which provides services to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office; Sarah Waterman, the apprenticeships and work experience manager at the Royal Opera House and Anna Mo

The Public Sector: opportunities in the Met Police and the NHS

Jul 04 2023 35 mins

Welcome to series three of the Parent Perspective, and we're kicking off by exploring opportunities in the public sector and what part apprentices can play in the future of the workforce.Host Rachel Burden finds out about the new doctor apprenticeships and much more with LUCY HUNTE, the National Programme Manager for Apprenticeships at NHS England, and GRACE BERNARD-BROADRECK, the