The Parent Perspective – Details, episodes & analysis

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 statistics, how Robert’s team have been widening access to apprenticeships and what we can expect in the next few months.

Plus we check in on a couple of promises made on this podcast last year!

For more information and to access support for you or your child, visit amazingapprenticeships.com.

The Parent Perspective, hosted by BBC presenter Rachel Burden, was 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. 

If you have any questions that you need answers to, you can join the conversation on social media by following @AmazingAppsUK and @NotGoingToUni and using the hashtag #parentperspective.

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 shortlisted for the multicultural apprenticeship awards and won an Institute of Civil Engineering quest scholarship award.

Santina tells Rachel why an engineering apprenticeship was the right route for her as well as why she feels she can be a role model for other young women looking to break into the trades sector.

The Parent Perspective, hosted by BBC presenter Rachel Burden, was 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.

If you have any questions that you need answers to, you can join the conversation on social media by following @AmazingAppsUK and @NotGoingToUni and using the hashtag #parentperspective.

For more information and to access support for you or your child, visit amazingapprenticeships.com.

Rachel Burden is joined by Anna Morrison from Amazing Apprenticeships and the newly (re-)appointed Minister for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education, Robert Halfon in a special episode to mark the start of National Apprenticeship Week 2023.

Rachel and Anna talk to Robert about his plans for apprenticeships, ask why 'degree apprenticeships' are his two favourite words, and find out how he plans to increase achievement rates.

For more information and to access support for you or your child, visit amazingapprenticeships.com.

The Parent Perspective, hosted by BBC presenter Rachel Burden, was 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. 

If you have any questions that you need answers to, you can join the conversation on social media by following @AmazingAppsUK and @NotGoingToUni and using the hashtag #parentperspective.

In episode six presenter Rachel Burden explores the versatility of apprenticeships, traineeships and degrees with Jennifer Sullivan from Qube Learning, trainee Nazish Akhtar plus professional rugby players Sam Dugdale and Luke James from Sale Sharks.

Rachel and guests also cover how an apprenticeship, a traineeship or a degree can support your child to achieve their dreams - or maybe give them a fall-back if things don’t go to plan, while Sam and Luke reveal how training and education, supported by the club, is helping them build a career after rugby.

For more information and to access support for you or your child, visit amazingapprenticeships.com.

The Parent Perspective, hosted by BBC presenter Rachel Burden, was 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. 

If you have any questions that you need answers to, you can join the conversation on social media by following @AmazingAppsUK and @NotGoingToUni and using the hashtag #parentperspective.

In episode five host Rachel Burden and guests tackle the emotional side of making big decisions post-16.

Prue Day from Not Going to Uni, Dexter Hutchings from the Apprentice Voice, and Enda Egan, the head of young people’s programmes at Mental Health UK join Rachel to discuss the importance of curiosity to explore options, how to best deal with disappointment, why resilience is a key tool for life and how you could be utilising friends and family as a support network.

For more information and to access support for you or your child, visit amazingapprenticeships.com.

The Parent Perspective, hosted by BBC presenter Rachel Burden, was 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. 

If you have any questions that you need answers to, you can join the conversation on social media by following @AmazingAppsUK and @NotGoingToUni and using the hashtag #parentperspective.

In episode four host Rachel Burden explores why with so many options available for your children post-16, it's so important for you, the parents, to keep an open mind when it comes to their future.

Rachel chats to Jill Eaton, who set up the training provider Sporting Futures in 2011 to create opportunities and raise aspirations through apprenticeships. Jill is a mum of four and she’s made sure that her own kids weren’t pushed down one route. Her second guest is Jill's son Tommie, who worked in education himself but then in 2019 he set up his own company, Bambuu Brush with his partner Rebecca.

The Parent Perspective, hosted by BBC presenter Rachel Burden, was 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. 

If you have any questions that you need answers to, you can join the conversation on social media by following @AmazingAppsUK and @NotGoingToUni and using the hashtag #parentperspective.

In episode three it's all about the money as Rachel Burden is joined by Anna Morrison from Amazing Apprenticeships, Alison Dunn, who is the CEO of Citizen’s Advice Gateshead, and Sam Sykes, who is the digital learning manager at UCAS, to talk through costs, funding and all things financial when it comes to post-16 options.

Whether you and your child are looking at an apprenticeship, a T-Level, a traineeship, work experience or university you might be wondering what costs are involved, what funding or bursaries are available and what they might be paid while they train.

If that’s you then we have all you need to know right here.

The Parent Perspective, hosted by BBC presenter Rachel Burden, was 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. 

If you have any questions that you need answers to, you can join the conversation on social media by following @AmazingAppsUK and @NotGoingToUni and using the hashtag #parentperspective.

In episode two, host Rachel Burden is joined by Philippa Hartley and Isabel Hutton from the Careers and Enterprise Company as well as Rebekah Shaxted, a careers advisor at the Westlands School in Kent, to offer advice on what to do if you or your child have no clue what to do next or where to turn for help or advice? What careers advice and help is really out there, where can you find it, and what can you expect from your child’s school?

We also explore what help your children are entitled to.

The Parent Perspective, hosted by BBC presenter Rachel Burden, was 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. 

If you have any questions that you need answers to, you can join the conversation on social media by following @AmazingAppsUK and @NotGoingToUni and using the hashtag #parentperspective.

In the first episode of this new series, Anna Morrison from Amazing Apprenticeships and Conor Cotton from Not Going To Uni answer the question, 'what are my child's options post 16? And where do we get the information?'

They cover apprenticeships, traineeships, further education, work experience and discuss how attitudes have changed towards these options, and where young people or parents should turn if results don't go their way.

The Parent Perspective, hosted by BBC presenter Rachel Burden, was 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. 

If you have any questions that you need answers to, you can join the conversation on social media by following @AmazingAppsUK and @NotGoingToUni and using the hashtag #parentperspective.

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!

If you have any questions that you need answers to, you can join the conversation on social media by following @AmazingAppsUK and @NotGoingToUni and using the hashtag #parentperspective.