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New Offices

24th of March, 2010

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The RBK-SRU will be moving to new offices located on the 2nd floor at Green Dragon House, 64 High Street, Croydon, CR0 9XN on Friday 26 March 2010. Ayub Khan Director of the RBK-SRU said “we are very pleased to have secured new offices that will better suit our needs as a local authority shared service".

The move will take place on Friday 26 March 2010 and the RBK-SRU will be operational on Monday 29 March 2010 at Green Dragon House.

The contact number from Monday 29 March 2010 will be 020 8649 9810.
 

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Young People's Survey

1st of March, 2010

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In January 2010, the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames Sub Regional Unit (RBK-SRU) contacted young people to get their views of the Connexions Service operating across South London.

 

The survey is now complete and initial findings are:

 

• 80% of respondents have used Connexions to access advice on jobs/careers information.
• The majority of respondents were aged 16 – 18 but there were a significant number that were 19 or above who responded.
• 85% of respondents are in education, employment or training. However there were a significant number of respondents who were not engaged in any form of training, education or employment.
• 74% prefer to receive advice and guidance face to face and electronic methods such as websites and computer packages were also quite popular.
• 88% of respondents are clear on where to go in order to access Connexions Services.
• Whilst the majority of respondents felt that the opening hours of Connexions Centres met their needs, there was a need for some Centres to open longer during the evening.

 

Ayub Khan, Director of the RBK-SRU said  “In any service you need to establish what works well and what aspects need improving. This survey gives us more up to date information about how young people view the service.  We will work with our providers to ensure that improvements are put in place and we will continue to ask young people what they think. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the young people who responded and congratulations to Amy Harris and Debra Chilumbi who were both the lucky winners of the iPod Touch.”

 

Pictured below are Amy and Debra collecting their prizes.

 

For further information about the survey contact the RBK-SRU.

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