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Careers guidance and access for education and training providers: published July 2021

In this resource you can find the link to the newly published Statutory Guidance released July 2021 and the CEC at a glance guide to the guidance for schools and college leaders.

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Governors: Careers Awareness

FREE online learning module

The aim of this module is to equip Governors with the knowledge needed to provide appropriate support and challenge, to ensure that all students receive high quality careers education.

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Providing an effective careers programme: the role of governing boards

This guide for governing boards in the secondary phase explains how your board can meet its statutory duties relating to careers guidance and was produced in collaboration with The National Governance Association

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Careers Education: A Guide for college governors

This guide helps Governors to support Careers Leaders around the Careers Strategy highlighting priority areas to maximise the impact of careers and the support and resources available.

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Careers Education: A Guide for secondary school governors

This guide helps Governors to support Careers Leaders around the Careers Strategy highlighting priority areas to maximise the impact of careers and the support and resources available

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Ofsted - Education Inspection Framework Guide

This guide is for school leaders and careers leaders to support preparation for the Education Inspection Framework (2019).  The guide also provides Enterprise Advisers and Governors with key questions to support strategic careers planning

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Amazing Apprenticeships: T Levels Teacher Guide

The Department for Education T Levels team has created a helpful T Level Guide for Teachers and Careers Advisers, giving a comprehensive oversight of this exciting qualification

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  • BM2: Learning from Career and Labour Market Information
  • BM7: Encounters with Further and Higher Education
  • Key stage 3
  • Key stage 4
  • Further education and skills
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Amazing Apprenticeships: Understanding Apprenticeships (film)

A short film created by Amazing Apprenticeships to showcase a range of apprenticeships and apprentices.

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  • BM2: Learning from Career and Labour Market Information
  • BM5: Encounters with Employers and Employees
  • BM7: Encounters with Further and Higher Education
  • Key stage 3
  • Key stage 4
  • Further education and skills
  • Parent engagement
  • Videos

Career HELP Advice System

A unique comprehensive on-line careers advice system commencing with a personal profile quiz using graphic images.

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  • BM1: A stable Careers Programme
  • BM2: Learning from Career and Labour Market Information
  • BM3: Addressing the needs of each pupil
  • BM4: Linking curriculum learning to careers
  • BM8: Personal Guidance
  • Key stage 3
  • Key stage 4
  • Further education and skills
  • Audio
  • Virtual

Compass support prompt questions

Feel confident that your interpretation of the eight Gatsby Benchmarks aligns with that of other schools across the country by using this handy set of prompt questions.

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  • BM2: Learning from Career and Labour Market Information
  • BM1: A stable Careers Programme
  • BM3: Addressing the needs of each pupil
  • BM4: Linking curriculum learning to careers
  • BM6: Experiences of the workplace
  • BM5: Encounters with Employers and Employees
  • BM7: Encounters with Further and Higher Education
  • BM8: Personal Guidance
  • Evaluation of careers programme
  • Evaluation/impact measurement tool
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Gatsby Benchmark toolkit – SEND

If you are working to deliver the Gatsby Benchmarks for young people with SEND – in any setting – you will find lots of practical help in this toolkit.

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  • BM1: A stable Careers Programme
  • BM2: Learning from Career and Labour Market Information
  • BM3: Addressing the needs of each pupil
  • BM4: Linking curriculum learning to careers
  • BM5: Encounters with Employers and Employees
  • BM6: Experiences of the workplace
  • BM7: Encounters with Further and Higher Education
  • BM8: Personal Guidance
  • Key stage 3
  • Key stage 4
  • Further education and skills
  • Guidance
  • SEND

Into Games

Look through over 100 careers in the games industry, with information on educational routes, links to further learning and interviews with professional staff.

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  • BM5: Encounters with Employers and Employees
  • BM2: Learning from Career and Labour Market Information
  • BM4: Linking curriculum learning to careers
  • BM7: Encounters with Further and Higher Education
  • Audio
  • Videos
  • Virtual

The Careers Podcast

How do you find a job you’ll love? What will it take to land that dream role? How do you discover what your dream job is?

The Careers Podcast interviews people doing all kinds of different jobs, finding out what they do, what they love about it and how they got to where they are now.  

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  • BM2: Learning from Career and Labour Market Information
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  • Further education and skills
  • SEND