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.
Spotlight
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
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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Careers Leader training
Transform your careers programme and develop your skills as a Careers Leader to strategically embed careers in the curriculum.
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.
Skilledin - Embed Careers to the Curriculum
Skilledin is a curated resource of careers films for teachers to use in-lesson and for students to use independently. The short films bring subject skills to life by seeing them in action and answers the ‘when am I ever going to use this?” question.
This is now a free resource!
Understanding the role of the Careers Leader: A guide for Independent Training Providers
This guide for Independent Training Providers explains what careers leadership in looks like and how it could be led and managed within your setting.
Understanding the role of the Careers Leader: A guide for colleges
The government's Careers Strategy means that all schools and colleges should have a named Careers Leader in place by September 2018. This guide for colleges explains what careers leadership in colleges looks like and how it could be led and managed within your college.
Careers Statutory Guidance: At a glance guides for school, college and ITP leaders
This resource provides an overview of the responsibilities of schools and colleges outlined in the publication ‘Careers guidance and access for education and training providers'.
Digital ATE Resources for Teachers and Careers Leaders
Developed in partnership with Amazing Apprenticeships, this digital resource is designed for Careers Leaders and teachers to raise awareness of apprenticeships and technical pathways through careers-specific sessions.
Engaging education leaders in the internal leadership review process
If you are looking to understand why you should take part in an internal leadership review, or you are supporting education leaders and senior staff to engage with the process, this collection of resources will help you get started and ensure the experience is purposeful and impactful.
Looked After Children (Children in Care): Careers in Personal Education Plan
Personal Education Plan Careers Resources
Central Strategic Careers Leadership (CSCL): Developing approaches to the strategic leadership of careers across trust
This guide explores how the role of the Central Strategic Careers Leader is emerging within trusts, the value of the work on careers within trusts, the value of collaborative working between trusts and Careers Hubs, and employers across the various regions.
OnTrack+ Practice Guide
OnTrack+ provides early insight within Compass+ to help schools and specialist settings recognise learners who may benefit from additional support.
This guidance outlines how to embed an evidence‑informed process for early identification and intervention, ensuring learners receive the right support at the right time while maintaining robust, responsible data practice.
FES Connect Activity
‘FES Connect’ is a national community for Post 16 careers leaders and practitioners, supporting development and sharing of best practice to ensure every learner is supported to find their next best step.
An opportunity to share examples of what's working well across the country in careers education via online seminars, newsletters showcasing best practice and an FES Connect chat board.
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FREE online learning
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.