
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.

The Framework
- Community based services
- Education based services
- Community hubs
- Developmental
- Online/in person
- Tracking
- Follow-up
- Real/simulated
- Brokerage
- Skills framework
- Employer informed
- Sector based
- Career curriculum
- Underpinning
- Resource bank
- Clear brand
- Visible
- Universal
- All-age
- Consistent
- Clear brand
- Visible
- Universal
- All-age
- Consistent
- Matrix standard
- Ofsted
- Gatsby benchmarks
- Data capture and reports
- Outcome framework
- Dashboards