Care Day (Friday 21st February 2025) is the world’s biggest celebration of children and young people with care experience! To Celebrate Care Day 2025, we would like to share with you a personal experience from an individual who has come …
As 2024 draws to a close, we wanted to take the opportunity to thank you all for your continued dedication and support in helping make GFiE Life Chance recruitment the success that it is. With your support, we have been …
This week (28th October - 3rd November) marks National Care Leavers Week, with a theme this year of ‘All of Us, We are One’. Chosen by care experienced young people, it highlights the need to create connections and build stronger …
National Inclusion Week (NIW) is a week dedicated to celebrating inclusion and taking action to create inclusive workplaces. This year's National Inclusion week takes place this week 23rd September to 29th September, and the theme for 2024 is ‘Impact Matters’, …
We are pleased to advise that the GFiE Department for Education (DfE) Care Leavers Internship Scheme returns for 2024 and will launch on Monday 2nd September 2024. Full details about the scheme and application process are detailed below, as well …
The Civil Service has over 20 Going Forward into Employment (GFiE) Life Chance Schemes currently in operation across Government, using innovative approaches to recruitment and providing Individuals from a wide range of backgrounds, who face barriers to employment, with opportunities …
In this GFiE Blog edition; we welcome our new Going Forward into Employment (GFiE) Deputy Director Dr Victoria Hanna and get to know a little more about Victoria and her first impressions of GFiE. Tell us a bit about yourself …
Pete Lawrence, Director for GFIE, retires in May after 43 years in the Civil Service. We caught up with Pete to ask him a few questions about the highlights and challenges of his career. He shared with us a few …
The Civil Service currently has 23 Going Forward into Employment (GFiE) Life Chance Schemes in operation across Government, using innovative approaches to recruitment and providing Individuals from a wide range of backgrounds, who face barriers to employment, with opportunities and …
This neurodiversity celebration week GFiE’s Head of Strategy and Community Amy Baldwin shares how thinking differently helps to drive and shape our work. I have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and like many neurodivergent people I care passionately about fairness. …