Home Office - Making the Connection

The Home Office understands the need to reach out to students from BAME backgrounds, supporting their aspirations and ambitions to reach their potential and find employment. Enabling them to get an understanding of the civil service, it’s varied role, the impact it makes on their lives and connecting with the broader civil service aim that it properly reflects the diversity of modern Britain.

Six government departments and the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust have worked closely with Greenwich Community College to redevelop their existing BTEC Public Services Diploma to include a specific civil service component, including e-mentoring. This is an innovative development for the diploma programme, allowing students to actively interact with civil servants and departments, recognising the impact of citizenship and to point out the directions and possibilities for their futures.