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. 

Developed by the team at Inspiring Worcestershire this resource aims to engage parents in supporting delivery of career related activities across a whole school or college.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A great resource for your Parents Evenings and Newsletters! Careermag for Parents, Carers and Guardians is a publication with information for parents of school-aged children offering support and information on careers and qualifications. 

It also includes information on how to help support young people with mental health issues, managing the UCAS system, apprenticeships and in-depth features on various sectors and opportunities in them.

Here are 11 practical recommendations to help you structure your engagement strategy and support the needs of different parent groups.

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.  

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.

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.