Every young person needs good career guidance to make informed decisions about their future. Good career guidance is a necessity for social mobility: those young people without significant social capital or home support to draw upon have the most to gain from a strong career guidance system. This group includes children known to social care.
Schools have a statutory duty to secure independent and impartial careers guidance for all pupils on their role. A new formal careers strategy was introduced in January 2018, together with a requirement that every school should begin to use the Gatsby Benchmarks to improve careers provision.
The eight Gatsby Benchmarks of Good Career Guidance are:
1. A stable careers programme
2. Learning from career and labour market information
3. Addressing the needs of each pupil
4. Linking curriculum learning to careers
5. Encounters with employers and employees
6. Experiences of workplaces
7. Encounters with further and higher education
8. Personal guidance
Useful Links
Career Conversations, an Interactive Parent Child Toolkit - Talking Futures
Aspire | Aspire (upreach.org.uk)
Careers advice | Who else can help | The Prince's Trust (princes-trust.org.uk)
Careers advice | National Careers Service
Careers Advice | Apprenticeships and Jobs Advice | UCAS
Careers Hub | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough (growthworkswithskills.com)