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
A lot of the Careers Strategy is in line with the Skills Chapter of the Industrial Strategy -
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5. Requirements & expectations

6. Requirements & expectations of schools
Requirements & expectations of schools *taken from statutory guidance published by DfE in January 2018
Timing
Action
Ongoing (legal duty came into force in September 2012)
Every school must ensure that pupils are provided with independent careers guidance from year 8 to year 13.
From January 2018 (legal duty came into force on 2 January 2018)
Every school must ensure that there is an opportunity for a range of education and training providers to access all pupils in year 8 to year 13 for the purpose of informing them about approved technical education qualifications or apprenticeships. Every school must publish a policy statement setting out their arrangements for provider access and ensure that it is followed. Annex A sets out an example policy statement on provider access.
From January 2018 to end 2020
Every school should begin using the Gatsby Benchmarks to improve careers provision now, and meet them by the end of For the employer encounters Benchmark, every school should begin to offer every young person seven encounters with employers – at least one each year from year 7 to year 13 – and meet this in full by the end of Some of these encounters should be with STEM employers.
From September 2018
Every school should appoint a named person to the role of Careers Leader to lead the careers programme.
Every school will be expected to publish details of their careers programme for young people and their parents.

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
Steph to run through a live demo following this slide.

11. Careers Leaders
All schools to have a named Careers Leader in place by September 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
Leadership
Management
Co-ordination
Networking
Project management
Planning schemes of work for career education
Briefing and supporting teachers of career education
Monitoring teaching and learning in career education
Supporting tutors providing initial information and advice
Managing, in partnership, the work of the careers adviser
Monitoring access to, and take up of, guidance
Line management
Managing the work of the careers administrator
Coordination
Managing the provision of careers information
Liaising with the PSHE leader and other subject leaders to plan career education
Liaising with tutorial managers, mentors, SENCO and head of sixth to identify pupils needing guidance
Referring pupils to careers advisers
Networking
Establishing and developing links with FE colleges, apprenticeship providers and universities
Establishing and developing links with employers
Negotiating a service level agreement with the local authority for support for vulnerable pupils
Commissioning career guidance services
Managing links with the LEP and other external organisations
Securing funding for careers related project
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?
1. Middle leader
A teacher, or non-teaching member of staff, is appointed to a middle leadership role, with line management support from a senior leader with overall responsibility for careers. The role is combined with other responsibilities, as a teacher, a non-teaching member of staff or a careers adviser.
2. Senior leader
A member of the school’s senior leadership, who may be a teacher or a non-teaching member of staff, is given direct responsibility for the leadership of careers.
The role is combined with other responsibilities as a senior leader.
3. Outsourced leadership
The school contracts with an external organisation or individual to provide its careers leadership.
4. Distributed leadership
The tasks of careers leadership are shared between a group of senior and middle leaders working together as a team.
5. Multi-school leadership
One individual is the careers leader for more than one school.

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. Access to 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:
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