Employer engagement

Access a free-to-use online platform that hosts all the tools you need to build the eight essential skills as outlined by the Skills Builder.

Use our handy checklist as a guide to establish and maintain effective parental engagement in your setting.

You can effectively record parental engagement in Compass+. Read the Help Centre article to find out how.

Access free online interactive resources, ready-made lessons and work experience opportunities – and build them into your progressive careers programme.

Make sure everyone knows which way you’re heading: ensure all stakeholders understand your careers programme by using these templates to present it in a visual way.

Amazing Apprenticeships is a leading organisation in the education sector, working with schools, colleges and employers, tackling misconceptions and promoting the benefits of apprenticeships and technical education.

They work closely with the Department for Education and a wide range of other partners and stakeholder organisations in England and internationally, to ensure that more individuals and businesses can access the benefits of apprenticeships.

Animated film explaining what apprenticeships are and their benefits, watch here! 

The Parents’ Guide to provides parents with the information they need to help their teenage children make the right choices to create successful futures after GCSE and sixth form. We provide schools and colleges with a range of resources designed to support your parents/carers with relevant, unbiased and up-to-date guidance. 

Talentino programmes have been helping to improve career outcomes for young people with a range of learning difficulties in a mixture of settings – special schools, mainstream schools, AP, PRU, SEMH, etc.

They also provide great opportunities for learning more, through their regular newsletters, annual SEND Careers Conference, and by publishing free resources.

Share this resource with the parents in your school, special school or college to provide them with useful advice on the options available to their child.

This is an editable overview for an academic year of events and specific weeks across the country to support in planning events and the development of a careers education programme.

Parents and carers play an important part in the careers and education choices of young people. The Gatsby Foundation and The Careers and Enterprise Company have worked with Careers Leaders to explore ideas and good practice for working with parents in these challenging times.

NEW added 10th July 3 guides to support induction, transition and beyond.

Developed by Causeway in partnership with Star Academies.

These resources have been developed to support embedding a careers element into transition support from Year 6 into Year 7.

This resource was created by AET to equip parents to have informed career conversations with their child by providing ongoing access to resources, guidance and key sources of information that will support them.