PARENT/TEACHER ZONE
Advice
How’s your school performing?
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n January 2018 the Government issued updated guidance to outline good practice for careers education, information and guidance in schools.
Janet Colledge of Outstanding Careers highlights the main points that every school should provide for its pupils.
Has it got an access policy? Every school must publish an access policy setting out how employers and educational providers can gain access to pupils to inform/educate them about the options open to them, for example apprenticeships, colleges, studio schools or university technical college courses and employer school-leaver programmes. Schools must also open all of these opportunities to all pupils in the relevant cohort. It can’t say, for instance, that only pupils who are not predicted certain grades can or can’t attend.
Has it got a stable programme of careers activities?
Schools should also publish a core programme of the careers activities they routinely put on for pupils. The programme should outline which activities are planned throughout the year for each year group or class and should include at least one activity for each year group from year 7 to 13. There are often ad-hoc activities that happen once, say, for example, an author’s visit. These don’t have to be added to the published programme.
Does your school base its provision on the 8 Gatsby benchmarks? The Gatsby Benchmarks are a set of indicators that allow educationalists and others to judge how good a school’s careers provision is. All schools are expected to start working towards meeting the targets with the aim of meeting them all by 2020. 1. A stable careers programme 2. Learning from career and labour market information – providing information
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about jobs, pay and opportunities and supporting pupils to understand what they mean.
3. Addressing the needs of each pupil – support should be appropriate to each pupil.
4. Linking curriculum learning to careers – subjects should include information and examples of how they are used in the working world. 5. Encounters with employers and employees – pupils should have the opportunity to speak to real employers and/or employees at least once per year.
6. Experiences of workplaces – pupils should have the opportunity to do work experience or some other method of experiencing how workplaces differ from the school environment and to develop the behaviours expected in the workplace.
7. Encounters with further and higher education – pupils should have access to other educational providers apart from their school in order to make informed choices about
their educational route.
8. Personal guidance – it is recommended that all pupils have access to a careers adviser when major decisions are made.
Is there access to a properly qualified careers adviser? Finally, the statutory guidance sets out that pupils should have access to a well-qualified professional careers adviser when making decisions at least once in KS3/4 and again, in KS5. The recommended level of qualification is that they are a registered professional on the Career Development Institute register.
http://www.thecdi.net/ Professional-Register- So, having read this article do you think that the school meets the guidance? Parents ask the teachers – and teachers ask your line manager – what they are doing to ensure that it is working towards meeting the guidance. l
www.outstandingcareers.co.uk
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