Employer engagement

Developed by the Careers Hub Inspiring Worcestershire this resource is designed to support young people with SEND to think about the Work Experience process.

This interactive checklist will support you to think about the Careers provision you have within your SEND setting.

Barclays virtual work experience gives students the opportunity to find out what it is like to work in financial services and the range of job roles and core transferable skills which are used within a bank. LifeSkills also has a range of virtual work experience resources for students to use within a classroom environment to help upskill them for jobs across any industry.

We connect young people with inspirational, eye opening virtual work experience opportunities with some of the largest employers both locally and nationally.

The Skills Builder Partnership brings together educators, employers and organisations around a common approach and mission: to support everyone to build the essential skills to succeed. The Impact Directory celebrates and shares the fantastic work of Skills Builder’s partners.

Prepare for a student’s work experience placement with these easily adaptable templates and example paperwork – developed by the Tees Valley Combined Authority.

Created by the London team this resource supports thinking around virtual experiences of the workplace for schools and businesses. 

Compass is a free digital product that helps you quickly and easily evaluate your careers provision against the eight Gatsby Benchmarks. 

Compass is available to secondary schools, special schools, sixth forms, colleges, PRU’s and ITPs in England.

With our free Compass+ tool you can benchmark, manage, track and report on your school's careers provision at individual student level.

Careermag for School Leavers is a termly publication with information for school-aged children offering support and information on careers and qualifications.

This toolkit is intended to be simple to use, helping Careers Leaders and others support and develop youth social action. the resource aims to enable more of their young people to be active citizens in their school or college and wider communities.

This programme has been collated from resources across our partners and network to support young people with SEND under the 2 groups identified in the SEND toolkit. It contains lessons around employability skill development , employer projects and engagement videos all to support young people in their next steps.