Cornerstone Vocational Training

Since formation in 2003, CVT has provided alternative education to young people who faced barriers to inclusion in mainstream provision. This helps children that are in danger of permanent exclusion from schools, partake in a vocational focus while still attending schools to study their core GCSE subjects. In 2007 the directorship of the company wa... s reduced to one from three and a decision was made to expand our provision to include post-16 programmes, working on the government initiative that was e2e. This provided our pre-16 learners the opportunity to progress into further training in an environment that they were comfortable with. This allowed us to break down the sometimes-daunting barriers of further education in the College system. Cornerstone partnered up with a number of lead providers to offer BTEC level 1 and 2 qualifications with a focus on achievement, completion and progression, into further education, employment or employment with further training. CVT's core market has always comprised of students from schools from the boroughs of Liverpool, Sefton, Wirral and Warrington. All boroughs that we work within are calculated to be mid to high in the Index of Multiple Deprivation with Liverpool being one of the most deprived nationally. This also has impacted upon regional and local NEET (Not in Education Employment or Training) figures, with Liverpool having 6.3% NEET with 19.2% not identified. Wirral has the next highest NEET figures out of the boroughs we work within, with 4.5% NEET and 8.5% not identified. These figures alone drove CVT to identify opportunities within the national policy context to further develop our services and introduce our post-16 programme under e2e, Foundation Learning and now the Study Programme for 16-19 year olds. What our clients say...Read More