Employer engagement

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.

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. 

A two-part session to train all staff in parental engagement in careers and to get staff to work with parents directly to find out what they need. 

This editable training presentation can be delivered during an INSET or other CPD session to upskill all staff.

Developed from the original Toolkit from the Gatsby Foundation, this toolkit is based on research exploring how institutions can best support parents to help young people make informed careers and education decisions. It includes colour coded identifiers to help you find the right support, wherever you are on your parental engagement journey. 

A flexible PowerPoint presentation template to introduce careers and education options to students and demonstrate the role their parents can play in their decision making. Includes homework activity for KS3-4 students.

A flexible PowerPoint presentation and handout to help secure the support of the SLT (and governors) for parental engagement activities. 

This resource informs staff about where they can send parents to get information about different pathways and could be housed on your staff intranet for easy access.

Parents can add value to the careers conversations we have in school, special school or college, by continuing these conversations at home. But in order to do this effectively, they need to be: 

• Aware 

• Informed 

• Enthused 

• Empowered 

Re-orienting the usual parents’ evening to offer an opportunity to discuss education and careers choices as well as progression. Includes preparation activity for parents who need more support.

A flexible PowerPoint presentation to introduce careers and education options to parents from Year 7 onwards.

Help parents understand their child’s careers education journey, the key decision points and how and when you will be offering them support using these visual journey’s.

During National Apprenticeship Week this year, consider including parents in the activities taking place. Here are some resources to support with this.