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Careers Services Framework

Before making and implementing decisions about careers, young people need to develop knowledge and understanding of themselves in relation to the world of work. This includes consolidating the skills required to learn further as well as recognising and developing employability skills through the course of their everyday learning at school, college, university, employment, and training pathways, at home and in the community.

This service should be available to all children and young people from their first year of schooling. This service needs to be age and stage-appropriate in supporting children and young people to explore careers, develop their understanding of work, and prepare them for work.

For further information on the Careers Services Framework and careers curriculum, please contact the CTE team.

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The Framework

The Careers Services Framework outlines the core components of effective careers services and interventions, and is visualised in the image to the right.
It is a Young Person Centred: co-designed, co-delivered, personalised pathways plan and portfolio, with four overarching themes:                  
Support Transition
Services and Hubs
  • Community based services
  • Education based services
  • Community hubs
IAG and transitions
  • Developmental
  • Online/in person
  • Tracking
  • Follow-up
Work experience and work-related learning
  • Real/simulated
  • Brokerage
Curriculum
Learning and careers pathways
  • Skills framework
  • Employer informed
  • Sector based
  • Career curriculum
  • Underpinning
  • Resource bank
Digital offer
  • Clear brand
  • Visible
  • Universal
  • All-age
  • Consistent
Communication
Common brand
  • Clear brand
  • Visible
  • Universal
  • All-age
  • Consistent
Quality
Common standards
  • Matrix standard
  • Ofsted
  • Gatsby benchmarks
Agreed shared outcomes
  • Data capture and reports
  • Outcome framework
  • Dashboards