All schools are to follow statutory guidance when providing a successful careers programme for their students. Please see the Careers Statutory Guidance from 2021 outlining our schools’ responsibilities.

The above statutory guidance clearly outlines how schools should be working with students to provide a career programme from years 7-14, the Gatsby Benchmarks provide a framework in which to guide schools on the delivery of this programme. They are as follows:

1. A stable careers programme
2. Learning from careers and labour market information#
3. Addressing the needs of each pupil
4. Linking the curriculum to careers
5. Encounters with employers and employees
6. Experience of workplaces
7. Encounters with further and higher education
8. Personal Guidance