Our Impact 2023/24
We work with secondary schools, colleges, and employers to improve careers education and help every young person take their next best step.
Our Impact 2023 24
Our impact is explained, and relevant evidence signposted below.
We work at scale鈥�
Almost all schools and colleges are now voluntarily working with us through accessing training for 情色五月天, being members of Careers Hubs, partnering with business volunteers and using our Compass/Compass+ digital tools.
To stimulate improvement鈥�
Each element of careers support leads to better provision for young people. However, we have put in place additional challenge, including:
- The Careers Impact System (CIS) assures quality through a system of peer-to-peer reviews, administered through Careers Hubs. Expert reviews sample quality at the system level. National System Reviews offer independent system-wide insight and thought leadership, taking a cross-cutting, thematic approach.
- Employer Standards - which have been used by over 900 employers - support businesses of all sizes to assess and improve the quality of their careers outreach against a set of well-established, evidence-led standards.
And develop innovative practice鈥�
- The Teacher Encounters Programme helps educators to understand workplace skills and pathways to job. The programme increased the confidence and capabilities of teachers to have constructive careers conversations with students, and improved the quality, quantity and impact of employer engagement with education.
- The Primary Pilot programme, Start Small; Dream Big, aims to bring career-related learning from the margins to the mainstream of education, targeting hundreds of thousands of students and thousands of primary schools in disadvantaged communities across the country.
- A refreshed approach to work experience, equalex is a three-tiered model designed to support two weeks鈥� worth of high-quality work experience for every young person, joined together by increasingly demanding learning objectives.
set the standard for careers education in England. Benchmark performance has improved over time. 2023/24, the greatest improvement nationally was on Benchmark 6 鈥搘orkplace experiences. Mainstream schools with the most disadvantaged students perform on par with the average school, achieving similar benchmarks and progress over the last six years. Our insight briefing gives more details on performance.
Employer Standards are improving the quality of educational outreach, including targeting students who face barriers. Our insight briefing evidences the business case for quality outreach as well as the improvements gained from working with Careers Hub.
Evidence of the link between good careers education and reducing NEET levels at post-16 and post-18 is now well developed. There is also evidence that good careers education drives career readiness听 and that students with high career readiness are more likely to make choices that are aligned with labour market needs: for example, girls who report 100% career readiness are twice as likely to choose engineering.
Key findings from our national survey of over 230,000 young people on their own perspectives on their career readiness are set out in our insight briefing. Key statistics are summarised below.
Young people鈥檚 career readiness responses in schools 2022/23 - 2023/24
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End of 2022/23 |
End of 2023/24 |
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Year 7 (N=28,499) |
Year 11 (N=11,683) |
Year 7 (N=63,494) |
Year 11 (N=26,088) |
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听Overall career readiness score |
46% |
67% |
49% |
68% |
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听Knows what skills employers need |
64% |
80% |
64% |
80% |
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听Understands apprenticeships vs A-levels |
39% vs 45% |
80% vs 85% |
38% vs 45% |
80% vs 84% |
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听Has thought about which pathway might be right for them |
26% |
81% |
33% |
84% |
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听Has a plan for next step |
N/A |
83% |
N/A |
83% |
*Average proportion of career knowledge and skills questions answered positively by students.
Employers also report the benefits of working with the careers system, as set out in our Employer Standards insight briefing.