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Talking Futures: Informal Q and A
A parent-friendly session where families can explore careers or education options with the school/college.
Talking Futures: Further Education planning tool
This dedicated FE guide contains suggestions for how you can work with other departments across your college to maximise the reach and impact of parental engagement in careers.
Talking Futures: Family Conversations Film
Follow four families talking to their children about next steps, helping your parents think about the role they can play in their own child’s decision-making.
Talking Futures: External Sources of Information for Parents
Some of these resources may be useful to signpost parents to as part of your engagement activities.
These sites are recommended by practitioners and are not endorsed by The Careers & Enterprise Company.
Talking Futures: Evaluating your delivery
What’s the best way to measure effectiveness?
Although not required for all individual activities, many evaluations measure before and after a programme of activity.
Talking Futures: Employer Panel
A Q&A session with a panel of employers to encourage parents to explore careers relating to a particular subject, skill or industry area with their child.
Talking Futures: Celebrity parent films
As part of The Gatsby Foundation’s work supporting parents to have careers conversations, ‘The Making of…’ films were produced, showing that as a parent, you don’t have to understand the detail of every careers in order to give your child the support they need.
Talking Futures: Career Adviser Parents' Meeting
An activity which builds on students’ first one-to-one meeting with the Careers Adviser, with a second meeting between the Careers Adviser, the student and their parents.
Talking Futures: Action Planning
A low-pressure session where families complete the Family action plan or Pathway planner with support from school or college staff.
Talking Futures: A Family Quiz Event
A fun quiz to familiarise families with information about careers and education options.
Talentino!
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.
Tackling NEET Toolkit
Connect your practical experience with research informed frameworks for understanding the risks to NEEThood and planning effective interventions.
Developed in collaboration with educators and local authority professionals during a three year research study to understand and intervene on Early School leaving across five EU nations, these research-informed tools offer practical and CPD support for professionals working with young people at risk of NEET/Early School Leaving.