Education Leaders
At The Careers & Enterprise Company, we partner with school and college leaders to strengthen whole‑institution outcomes through high‑quality, evidence‑based careers provision. With our expertise, free tools, resources and national ecosystem of support, we become an extension of your team - helping you build a careers offer that drives wider improvement priorities and prepares every young person for their best next step in a fast‑changing world.
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Online training modules
Embedding careers in strategic improvement
Through the Careers & Enterprise Academy, key education stakeholders can access a rich and expanding set of online courses that deepen understanding of the careers education landscape and the wider impact of strong, distributed careers leadership.
With dedicated courses for Education Leaders and Governors, the Academy supports strategic, sustainable careers approaches that influence learner outcomes, teaching, culture and wider school, college and specialist setting improvement. Explore the range of training available here.
Careers Impact internal leadership review
The Careers Impact internal leadership review supports a quality assured, sustainable and strategic approach to careers leadership.
The review forms part of the Careers Impact System, which is a process that drives continuous improvement in careers education. It sets clearly defined standards as to what good looks like in careers leadership and is directly linked to wider school and college improvement.
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Guide for Education Leaders in schools and colleges
For Education Leaders, highlighting the value of holistic careers education in providing solutions to key leadership challenges including disengagement from learning, falling attendance, and meeting the needs of disadvantaged or vulnerable learners, and young people with SEND.
Ofsted - Education Inspection Framework Guide
Updated Autumn 2025
This guide is designed to support education leaders and Careers Leaders by highlighting key changes in Ofsted’s approach to inspecting careers education from November 2025.
Careers guidance and access for education and training providers
In this resource you can find the link to the Statutory Guidance and the CEC at a glance guides for schools and college leaders and training providers.
Understanding the role of the Careers Leader: A guide for secondary schools
The government's Careers Strategy means that all schools and colleges should have a named Careers Leader in place. This guide explains the role and how it can work in your institution.
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EmployAbility Leisure Guides
EmployAbility Leisure is an initiative by Aspire (EmployAbility Leisure) to create more accessible and inclusive training and workplace environments for disabled people in the fitness and leisure sector. Evidence-based guidance published as a result for disabled people, training providers and employers is available for free, instant download here.
Your Money Matters
This resource has been designed for use with young people age 14 – 16 in England and covers topics including spending and saving, borrowing, debt, insurance, student finance & future planning.
You can access the curriculum mapped textbook funded by Martin Lewis, founder of MoneySavingExpert.com
Financial Education Planning Frameworks
This resource aims to support the planning, teaching, and progression of financial education by setting out the key areas of financial knowledge, skills and attitudes, across core themes.
Morrisby
Whole-School Careers Guidance Platform with research tools to help students age 11 upwards discover the world of work and pathways forward. Morrisby contains the most advanced psychometric assessments and comprehensive tools to make Compass+ and Gatsby tracking easier.
University Guide Brochures from UniTasterDays.com for Parents, Careers Colleagues and Teachers
Featuring expert editorial content from expert practitioners and a finance guide from Martin Lewis!
Get Set Progress - Internship Programme
Get Set Progress run by Thomas Pocklington Trust (TPT), provides paid internships for blind and partially sighted people (over the age of 18) to secure that first run on the career ladder or who are returning to work following a career break.
My Employment Passport
My Employment Passport, is a 30-module course that raises the employment aspirations for young people with additional needs whilst inspiring their teachers, tutors, supporters, parents, and future employers too.
Working with Enterprise Advisers
World class careers education can’t exist without the input and insight from industry leaders. Volunteer Enterprise Advisers (EAs) are there to do just that, provide ‘real time’ insight to help demystify the world of work and improve your connectivity to employers.
This resource looks at the ways in which Careers Leaders and EAs can work together to ensure careers education is reflective of the fast-changing labour market.
Auditing and planning tools for SEND career provision in mainstream
Developed by Black Country Careers Hub. Here are three resources to support a mainstream setting to audit their careers offer for SEND pupils. Create a SWOT analysis based on the audit, then plan pupil centred interventions to meet the needs of individual pupils.
Maths4Girls
An award-winning platform enabling educators to invite role models into schools.
Parental Engagement: Signposting resources for staff
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.
Arrange and prepare for an independent training provider visit
This is a template resource that can be adapted locally to help Careers Hub support their institutions to prepare for an ITP encounter.
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Education Leader: Embedding Careers in Strategic Improvement
Shaped for leaders balancing multiple priorities, this course focuses on what matters most: delivering careers provision that meets statutory guidance, improves learner outcomes, and contributes directly to your wider improvement priorities.