What CEIAG schools and colleges are required to deliver
Statutory guidance
Statutory guidance for schools and colleges on their duty to provide independent and impartial careers guidance for years 8-13.
Schools
- Careers strategy: making the most of everyone’s skills and talents (DfE, Dec 2017)
- Careers guidance and access for education and training providers (DfE, October 2018)
Sixth Forms and FE Colleges
Key requirements of the Careers Strategy
- Every school must ensure that pupils are provided with independent careers guidance from year 8 to year 13
- Every school and college must appoint a named person to the role of Careers Lead
- Every school and college must publish details of their careers programme for young people and their parents (see section below for more details)
- Every school must publish a policy statement setting out their arrangements for provider access and ensure that it is followed (the ‘Baker clause’)
- Every school and college should use the Gatsby Benchmarks and meet them by the end of 2020
- By the end of 2020, every school must offer every young person seven encounters with employers – at least one each year from year 7 to year 13 – including STEM employers
What you must publish online
The government has outlined that schools and colleges must publish the following information about their careers programme:
- The name, email address and telephone number of the school’s Careers Leader
- A summary of the careers programme, including details of how pupils, parents, teachers and employers may access information about the careers programme
- How the school measures and assesses the impact of the careers programme on pupils
- The date of the school’s next review of the information published
Ofsted
We have summarised the content on careers guidance found in the latest inspection frameworks for schools and colleges in a report
The full inspection handbook for schools from September 2019 can be found on the Ofsted website.