Education Leaders
At The Careers & Enterprise Company, we can help you prepare all young people for the fast-changing world of work with our expertise, experience, free tools, resources and ecosystem of support –becoming an extension of your team to add value to your careers offering and support positive futures for all students. We’re ready when you are.
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Online training modules
Our free online learning modules, hosted on our digital hub, help key education stakeholders to better understand the value of careers leadership, the careers education landscape, understand the role and value of a Careers Leader and how subject teachers can contribute to good careers education. Access training modules specific for Education Leaders and Governors 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 priority areas to maximise the impact of careers and the support and resources available.
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.
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 guide to the guidance for schools and college leaders.
Impact Evaluation Toolkit Guidance Document
This is a resource for Careers Leaders, and their colleagues, in schools, special schools and colleges to evaluate the impact of career programmes.
Gatsby Benchmark 1 Module 1: Creating a Strategic Careers Plan
The following resource and support are designed to support a Careers Leader to create a strategic careers plan. The resource and support include ‘Building a Strategic Careers Plan’ guidance document and a Careers Leader recorded webinar on this element of Benchmark 1.
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Parental Engagement: Parents Evening Appointments
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.
Parental Engagement: Informal Q and A
A parent-friendly session where families can explore careers or education options with the school/college.
Parental Engagement: External Sources of Information for Parents
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.
Parental Engagement: Options at 16 and 18 animations
Simple animated films, to help parents understand the range of options open to their children at 16 and 18.
Parental Engagement: Family Conversations Film
Follow four families talking to their children about next steps, helping your parents think about the role they can play in their own child’s decision-making.
Parental Engagement: Celebrity parent films
As part of The Gatsby Foundation’s work supporting parents to have careers conversations, ‘The Making of…’ films were produced, showing that as a parent, you don’t have to understand the detail of every careers in order to give your child the support they need.
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.
Parental Engagement: Evaluating your delivery
What’s the best way to measure effectiveness?
Although not required for all individual activities, many evaluations measure before and after a programme of activity.
Parental Engagement: Further Education planning tool
This dedicated FE guide contains suggestions for how you can work with other departments across your college to maximise the reach and impact of parental engagement in careers.
Parental Engagement: SLT Careers meeting
A flexible PowerPoint presentation and handout to help secure the support of the SLT (and governors) for parental engagement activities.
Parental Engagement: Whole-staff CPD session
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.
Parental Engagement: Toolkit
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.
FREE online learning
Education Leader: Careers Awareness
Education Leaders: Introduction to careers
This course supports Education Leaders in exploring the value of careers education; the benefits for young people, and its contribution towards meeting school, special school, and college strategic priorities.