Local Partnership Services
More than a platform. A partner in local delivery.
Every community has different skills needs, employment challenges and opportunities. Shine gives local partners the technology to help young people discover their potential, build evidence of their skills and connect with meaningful next steps.
But digital access is only part of the picture. Through commissioned partnerships, Shine can work directly with local authorities, schools, colleges, employers and community organisations to bring opportunities closer to young people and support local skills and employment priorities.
From practical workshops and SEND-focused engagement to employer campaigns and bespoke local opportunity mapping, we shape additional services around the needs of your community.
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One platform. Multiple pathways into opportunity.
At the heart of every Shine partnership is our digital platform, built to help 16–24 year olds understand their strengths, explore opportunities and take practical steps towards their future.
AI-powered career discovery
Young people explore their interests, strengths and aspirations through a guided career discovery experience, helping them see pathways beyond traditional academic routes.
Personalised CareerMaps
Individual career pathways showing relevant next steps, opportunities and areas to develop, turning career aspirations into practical action.
Shine's UK Skills Passport™
A free digital record where young people build evidence of their qualifications, skills, work experience, volunteering, achievements and wider activities. They stay in control of their information and choose what they share with employers.
Live opportunities
Relevant entry-level jobs, apprenticeships, training and other progression opportunities, helping young people move from exploring to acting.
CV and application support
Practical tools to help young people present their experience, prepare applications and show employers their potential.
Employer connections
Shine's employer platform supports skills-based recruitment, helping employers find and engage emerging talent for entry-level and apprenticeship roles.
Partner reporting
Reporting can help participating organisations understand relevant engagement, activity and progression information, within the scope of their agreed access and reporting arrangements.
The exact platform features, reporting access and services available to each partner are confirmed as part of the agreed partnership scope.
Available through commissioned partnerships
Bringing opportunity into the community.
For partners who want to go further, Shine can provide additional services commissioned around local priorities, target groups and delivery needs. These are not included in a standard subscription or area licence.
- Commissioned
In-person UK Skills Passport™ workshops
Practical, engaging workshops helping young people understand and use Shine's UK Skills Passport™.
Sessions can help participants:
- Identify their skills, strengths and transferable abilities.
- Recognise experience gained through education, volunteering, hobbies and everyday activities.
- Record qualifications, achievements and evidence.
- Understand how to show their potential to employers.
- Build confidence in talking about their skills.
Possible settings include schools, colleges, youth centres, community venues and employability programmes.
- Commissioned
SEND-focused engagement programmes
Tailored activities helping young people with special educational needs and disabilities recognise their strengths, explore opportunities and grow confidence in their next steps.
Potential activities include:
- Accessible career discovery sessions.
- Practical skills and strengths identification.
- Supported use of Shine's UK Skills Passport™.
- Exploring different education, training and employment pathways.
- Engaging with relevant local opportunities.
Delivery is shaped around the commissioned cohort and developed with appropriate education, support and specialist professionals. Shine complements specialist SEND provision; it does not replace qualified professionals, reasonable adjustments or specialist careers guidance.
- Commissioned
Local employer engagement campaigns
Targeted campaigns bringing local employers and emerging talent closer together.
Potential activities include:
- Promoting entry-level jobs and apprenticeships.
- Raising awareness of local skills shortages and employer demand.
- Encouraging employers to consider skills and potential alongside qualifications.
- Promoting employer opportunities through Shine.
- Supporting links between employers, education providers and young people.
The aim is to make local employment opportunities more visible and accessible. Employer relationships are built as part of each partnership's delivery.
- Commissioned
School, college and community outreach
On-the-ground engagement to increase awareness of, participation in and access to career development.
Potential activities include:
- School and college engagement sessions.
- Community workshops and presentations.
- Youth organisation partnerships.
- Information sessions for parents and carers.
- Promoting Shine's free digital tools.
- Reaching groups who may face barriers to traditional careers support.
Delivery is shaped around local priorities and the communities a partner wants to reach.
- Commissioned
Bespoke local opportunity mapping
A locally informed view of progression opportunities, helping partners connect young people with pathways that reflect their area.
Potential activities include:
- Mapping relevant local employers and sectors.
- Identifying entry-level jobs and apprenticeship opportunities.
- Highlighting education and training providers.
- Exploring opportunities in local skills-short sectors.
- Identifying gaps between young people's aspirations and available pathways.
- Curating opportunities for specific cohorts or communities.
Mapping is carried out for each partnership around local economic priorities and employer demand; it is not a claim that every local opportunity is already on the platform.
- Commissioned
Additional reporting and evaluation
Extra reporting and evaluation support to help partners understand the reach and value of their programme.
Depending on the agreed scope, this may include:
- Engagement and participation reporting.
- Workshop attendance and activity reporting.
- Analysis of opportunity engagement.
- Progression and destination reporting where relevant information is available.
- Evaluation against agreed partnership objectives.
- Bespoke reports for internal reviews, stakeholders and funders.
All reporting is subject to data access rules, privacy safeguards, data availability and agreed definitions. Shine does not guarantee employment outcomes.
Connecting young people with the skills their communities need.
From construction and manufacturing to health, green energy and digital, young people need better visibility of the opportunities around them and the routes into those industries.
Shine helps young people explore different pathways, understand what employers look for and identify practical next steps. Through commissioned partnerships, this can be complemented by local opportunity mapping, employer engagement and targeted outreach.
Across all skills-short sectors, including:
- Digital, tech & cyber
- Health & social care
- Green energy
- Engineering & manufacturing
- Construction & trades
- Logistics & transport
- Science & life sciences
- Education & early years
- Farming, food & environment
Examples only. Each partnership reflects the changing skills priorities of its own area.
Potential has no standard format. Opportunity should be accessible to everyone.
A young person's potential can't always be measured by grades, qualifications or a traditional CV. Shine helps young people recognise and communicate the wider range of skills, experiences and strengths they bring.
- Skills-based career discovery beyond academic results.
- Ways to evidence practical abilities, interests and achievements.
- Recognition of volunteering, hobbies, informal experience and transferable skills.
- Multiple routes, including apprenticeships, training, employment and further education.
- A digital UK Skills Passport™ controlled by the young person.
- Personalised career pathways and practical next steps.
- The option to commission SEND-focused engagement and accessible workshops.
Shine complements existing careers guidance, specialist SEND services and local support. It is not a SEND assessment or specialist support tool. Any additional SEND-focused delivery is developed around the needs of the commissioned cohort with appropriate professional input.
A practical partner for local delivery.
Shine can support partners who want to:
- Improve young people's awareness of education, training and employment pathways.
- Help young people recognise and evidence their skills.
- Increase engagement with entry-level jobs and apprenticeships.
- Promote local employer opportunities.
- Support young people who may not engage with traditional careers resources.
- Complement existing careers, employability and youth services.
- Understand programme reach and engagement through agreed reporting.
- Connect digital tools with practical, community-based engagement.
Shine complements existing local services; it does not duplicate or replace them. Partners keep responsibility for their statutory duties, safeguarding arrangements, professional decisions and case-management processes.
How a commissioned partnership works
Stage 1: Understand local priorities
We discuss your objectives, target groups, local skills needs, existing provision and the outcomes you want.
Stage 2: Shape the partnership
We agree which platform capabilities and commissioned services fit, alongside delivery responsibilities, reporting and measures of success.
Stage 3: Deliver locally
Young people use Shine's digital tools, supported by any agreed workshops, outreach, employer engagement or other commissioned activity.
Stage 4: Review and evaluate
You receive the agreed reporting and evaluation to review engagement, activity and progress against your objectives.
Timescales are agreed with each partner; this is not a fixed timetable.
One partnership. Designed around your priorities.
Every area has different needs. Shine works with partners to agree an annual partnership and, where needed, additional commissioned delivery.
Core partnership
- Access to Shine's digital platform under the agreed licence
- Local referral and promotional materials
- Relevant partner reporting
Optional commissioned services
- In-person workshops
- SEND-focused engagement
- Employer engagement campaigns
- School, college and community outreach
- Bespoke opportunity mapping
- Additional reporting and evaluation
Core platform access and additional commissioned services are agreed separately.
The scope, delivery arrangements, responsibilities and costs are confirmed in an individual partnership proposal.
Built with responsibility in mind.
- Young people control what they share through Shine's UK Skills Passport™.
- Access to personal information follows the relevant partner permissions and agreed arrangements.
- Council reporting respects privacy and uses appropriate aggregation, never individual records.
- Staff keep their professional judgement and responsibility for safeguarding and individual decisions.
- Shine does not replace statutory duties, DWP systems, benefit decisions or qualified careers guidance.
- Any additional data sharing and reporting is agreed before delivery.
Let's build something that works for your community.
Whether you're a local authority, school, college, employer network or community organisation, Shine can help you connect young people with the skills, experiences and opportunities that shape their future.
Let's explore what a partnership could look like in your area.
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