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Helping schools meet the Gatsby career benchmarks


Across the UK every year, an average of 4.7 million young individuals make decisions on their GCSE options and their future careers. These choices can help develop interests in certain subjects, to then go on and influence their later career paths. Every young person needs high-quality career guidance to make informed decisions about their future. Good career guidance is a necessity for social mobility – giving young people of more diverse backgrounds a fairer chance of equal opportunities. It was welcome news to see that, according to statistics published by UCAS in February 2021, more young people are taking science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) subjects at university than ever before.


The fast-changing world of work puts an ever-greater demand on all of us to support young people in making a successful transition from education to employment, helping them to identify and choose career opportunities that are right for them. Despite its importance, career guidance in the UK has previously been criticised for being inconsistent. With the current transformation of technical education in England ensuring that high quality pathways into rewarding careers have never been a more attractive option, it is vital that good career guidance is embedded throughout education, so that young people will be better equipped to make informed choices about their next steps.


Government’s Career Strategy The Government’s Careers Strategy, published in 2017, and statutory guidance for school leaders and school staff, published in 2018, set out the plan for building a high-quality careers system that will help young people to achieve. Thanks to Sir John Holman and The Gatsby Charitable Foundation, there is now a clear blueprint of what good careers provision looks like. The Gatsby Charitable Foundation is a foundation set up by David Sainsbury with a focus on strengthening science and engineering skills in the UK by developing innovative programmes and informing national policy.


In 2013 the Foundation commissioned Sir John Holman to set out what career guidance in England would be like if it were good by international standards, resulting in the Good Career Guidance


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The jointly developed Career Route Map aims to raise awareness and visibility around the many different areas and roles within healthcare estate management and healthcare engineering.


report. This report then went on to influence the eight benchmarks to serve as a framework for improvement in careers provision, which have been adopted as part of the Government’s Careers Strategy and statutory guidance for schools and colleges. The eight Gatsby Benchmarks are based on the best national and international research, and define all the elements of an excellent careers programme. These benchmarks have now been put at the heart of the Careers Strategy, with an expectation that all schools will begin working toward achieving them.


Eight benchmarks


The framework can be used by all schools and colleges to develop a good careers programme. They are the recommended elements of good practice in career guidance. The eight Gatsby benchmarks of Good Career Guidance are:


1: A stable career programme Every school and college should have an embedded programme of career education and guidance that is known and understood by pupils, parents, teachers, and employers.


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