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Implementing the Careers Strategy: What Enterprise Advisers need to know

Implementing the Careers Strategy: What Enterprise Advisers need to know Karleen Dowden – Regional Lead North East & Education Policy Lead. Webinar agenda. An overview of the Careers Strategy and Statutory Guidance Implications of the Strategy and guidance for schools and colleges

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Implementing the Careers Strategy: What Enterprise Advisers need to know

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  1. Implementing the Careers Strategy: What Enterprise Advisers need to know Karleen Dowden – Regional Lead North East & Education Policy Lead

  2. Webinar agenda • An overview of the Careers Strategy and Statutory Guidance • Implications of the Strategy and guidance for schools and colleges • How you as an EA can support your school or college in meeting their statutory requirements • Support available to EA’s

  3. The Careers Strategy

  4. The Careers Strategy & Statutory Guidance • The government’s Careers Strategy was published in December 2017 • Statutory Guidance for school leaders and school staff was published in January 2018 and for colleges in February 2018 • The Strategy sets out the plan for building a high-quality careers system to help young people choose career opportunities that are right for them • The aim of the Strategy is to ensure that all young people get an excellent programme of advice and guidance, based upon their own needs

  5. Requirements & expectations

  6. Requirements & expectations of schools *taken from statutory guidance published by DfE in January 2018

  7. Providing education and Training Provider access • The Technical and Further Education Act 2017 came into force on 2nd January 2018 • Also referred to as the Baker Clause • Requires schools by law to ensure there is an opportunity for a range of education and training providers to access all pupils in year 8 to year 13 • Schools must prepare and publish a policy statement setting out the circumstances of the above • Policy template can be found in the Statutory Guidance

  8. Using the Gatsby Benchmarks to improve careers provision • The Gatsby Benchmarks have been identified as the main framework for careers and are referred to throughout the Strategy and Statutory Guidance • All schools to begin working toward the Gatsby Benchmarks, meeting them by the end of 2020 • Schools and colleges should offer every young person in years 7 – 13 at least one encounter a year by 2020 • Compass can help schools/colleges to evaluate their current careers provision against the eight Gatsby Benchmarks • Tracker enables schools/colleges to plan to improve their provision

  9. What are the benefits of Compass? • Evaluate careers and enterprise activity in around 30 minutes • Compare the school/college to the 8 Gatsby Benchmarks for good career guidance • Identify strengths and areas for improvement • Get relevant online resources to help improve on scores in relation to each benchmark, including dedicated resources to support careers provision for students with SEND

  10. What are the benefits of Tracker? • Build and manage annual plans for careers and enterprise activity, including targeting areas of improvement • Easily record events, classes and all careers activities in one place • Access, download and share their plan in Word or Excel format with colleagues, leadership teams, Ofsted, governors, Enterprise Coordinators and Enterprise Advisers • Evaluate the success of completed activities

  11. Careers Leaders • All schools to have a named Careers Leader in place by September 2018 with training to be made available for at least 500 Careers Leaders • Gatsby and The Careers & Enterprise Company will work with school and college leaders to clearly identify what the role of a Careers Leader involves and the benefits of the position • Government will provide £4 million to fund the development of new training programmes and support at least 500 schools and colleges in areas of the country most in need of support, to train their own Careers Leaders and build momentum behind this enhanced role • Training will be piloted and evaluated before considering whether to make it available more widely. We will pilot the first training in 2018/19 academic year.

  12. The role of a Careers Leader • A Careers Leader is………. • Not a careers advisor (although these roles should work together and can be combined) • A leadership role and needs to have a strong route to the school’s SLT and Headteacher

  13. How do schools organise careers leadership?

  14. Training • The Careers & Enterprise Company will fund 500 training bursaries • These will be available to use with approved training providers • Details about how to access this training will be made available by The Careers & Enterprise Company over the summer term • The first training courses will start from January 2019

  15. How can you support? • Engaging, informing and updating governors • Encouraging the completion of Compass and Tracker • Supporting the development of the ‘access policy’ • Opening up your networks to support in providing encounters • Championing the role of the Careers Leader and possibly supporting in the recruitment of this role • Challenging and supporting your school to make careers provision a priority

  16. Careers Hubs • 20 x ‘careers hubs’ will be funded and supported by additional coordinators • The hubs will link together schools, colleges, universities and other local organisations • £5m will be invested to support these areas • The Careers & Enterprise Company will run the process to support implementation of the hubs, with an intent for them to be operational from Autumn 2018

  17. What support is available for EA’s • Recently updated toolkit and resources • Support of an Enterprise Coordinator • Access to local EA networking meetings • Access to national The Careers & Enterprise Company events

  18. Accessto resources • The EA resource page • Located on our website, from this page you can download a range of guidance documents on the following subjects: • Getting started as an EA • Compass and Tracker guidance • Careers education resources • Specialist resources for working with schools • Guidance on engaging new schools and employers • Brand guidelines and templates • How to access: • https://www.careersandenterprise.co.uk/enterprise-adviser-network/enterprise-adviser-resources • Password: resources

  19. Resources due in February/March 2018 • The Gatsby SEND toolkit • Created so that EAs can better understand the career landscape for young people with special educational needs and disabilities • National Grid SEND Employer toolkit • A practical guide to help employers provide workplace experiences for young people with SEND • Engaging with governing bodies in schools • A guide for ECs and EAs on engaging with governing bodies in schools following the release of the Careers Guidance in early Jan 2018

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