Ofsted inspection of careers information advice and guidance Life Ready Work Ready October 2019 Ian Smith SHMI Life Ready Work Ready October 2019
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Contents What the Education Inspection Framework says about the expectations of schools and providers about careers education What inspectors are looking for Findings from inspections The views of young people and parents Life Ready Work Ready October 2019
Careers guidance: schools The EIF 2019 School handbook requires inspectors to evaluate whether schools are: providing an effective careers programme in line with the government’s statutory guidance on careers advice that offers pupils: unbiased careers advice experience of work, and contact with employers to encourage pupils to aspire, make good choices and understand what they need to do to reach and succeed in the careers to which they aspire. ‘Careers guidance and access for education and training providers’, DfE Oct 2018 Life Ready Work Ready October 2019
Careers guidance: schools As part of personal development , inspectors will evaluate: the quality of careers information, education, advice and guidance, and how well it benefits pupils in choosing and deciding on their next steps Inspectors will judge whether: Secondary schools prepare pupils for future success in education, employment or training. How they use the Gatsby Benchmarks to develop and improve their careers provision and enable a range of education and training providers to speak to pupils in Years 8 to 13. All pupils receive unbiased information about potential next steps and high- quality careers guidance. The school provides good quality, meaningful opportunities for pupils to encounter the world of work . Life Ready Work Ready October 2019
Careers guidance: sixth forms When evaluating the effectiveness of careers guidance in sixth-form provision in schools , inspectors will consider: the effectiveness of high-quality impartial careers guidance in enabling all students to make progress and move on to a higher level of qualification, employment or further training when they are ready to do so. They will judge whether: the sixth form prepares its students for future success in education, employment or training. It does this through providing: unbiased information to all about potential next steps; high-quality, up-to-date and locally relevant careers guidance, and opportunities for good quality, meaningful encounters with the world of work . Life Ready Work Ready October 2019
Careers guidance: further education The Technical and Further Education Act requires Ofsted to ‘comment on the careers guidance provided to all relevant students in institutions in the further education sector ’. Relevant students are defined in the legislation as those aged under 19, and those over 19 with education, health and care (EHC) plans (who could be aged up to 25). Although the statutory duty only applies to colleges, for reasons of consistency we apply it to all FES providers. Life Ready Work Ready October 2019
Careers guidance: further education As from January 2018, an evaluative comment on the quality of careers guidance must be made in all FES full and short inspection reports. The only exception to this is where there are no learners aged under 19 and no learners with EHC plans. The comment is not expected to be a graded judgement but should evaluate the quality/impact of careers guidance on relevant learners. Life Ready Work Ready October 2019
Careers guidance: further education The EIF 2019 Further education and skills handbook requires inspectors on short inspections to assess whether learners benefit from good-quality careers advice and guidance. Life Ready Work Ready October 2019
Careers guidance: further education On full inspections , where the provider offers education programmes for young people inspectors will review how well high-quality impartial careers guidance enables learners to make progress and move on to a higher level of qualification, employment, further training or independent living when they are ready to do so. Life Ready Work Ready October 2019
Careers guidance: further education As part of personal development , inspectors will evaluate whether the provider is: providing an effective careers programme that offers advice, experience and contact with employers to encourage learners to aspire, make good choices and understand what they need to do in order to reach and succeed in their chosen career They will judge whether: The provider prepares learners for future success in education, employment or training by providing: unbiased information to all about potential next steps; high-quality, up-to-date and locally relevant careers guidance; and opportunities for encounters with the world of work . Life Ready Work Ready October 2019
Careers guidance: further education As part of leadership and management, inspectors will judge whether: Leaders ensure that all learners, including those with SEND and high needs, and disadvantaged learners, get the i nformation, advice, guidance and support to achieve their next steps and progress to positive destinations . Leaders provide the support for staff to make this possible. Life Ready Work Ready October 2019
Careers guidance: things to consider Rationale: What is your rationale for careers guidance? What will your pupils/learners get out of it? Who are your strategic partners? Do staff know about the requirements? Roll out: How is your delivery organised? How do you ensure that all learners have access to good-quality, impartial guidance and meaningful encounters with the world of work? Impact: Do learners make appropriate choices? What destinations? Are they sustained? How do you know? Life Ready Work Ready October 2019
Benchmarks of Good Career Guidance From 2018, schools and colleges should use the Gatsby Foundation’s benchmarks of Good Career Guidance below: 1. A stable careers programme 2. Learning from career and labour market information 3. Addressing the needs of each pupil 4. Linking curriculum learning to careers 5. Encounters with employers and employees 6. Experiences of workplaces 7. Encounters with further and higher education 8. Personal guidance Life Ready Work Ready October 2019
• Life Ready Work Ready October 2019 What do we see? Where inspectors report positively they find that: careers advice and guidance steers learners towards subject choices that retain the widest range of career options at a later stage learners benefit from effective collaboration with local providers through impartial introduction to different pathways, learners find appropriate placements in further education or training transition from each key stage is well supported with clear steps communicated well to parents the curriculum enables learners to understand the range of further education and work-related learning options that are available to them. Life Ready Work Ready October 2019
• Life Ready Work Ready October 2019 What do we see? Where inspectors judge careers guidance to require improvement or to be inadequate: the curriculum is not appropriate for the majority of learners learners entering sixth form, sixth form college or further education college receive poor advice and guidance too many learners were inappropriately placed on academic courses which they either failed or quit careers education, guidance and advice have failed to raise learners’ aspirations the guidance learners receive for next steps other than university is not strong the school does not follow up and check learners’ destinations in order to evaluate the impact of careers advice and guidance. Life Ready Work Ready October 2019
• Life Ready Work Ready October 2019 What do young people say? Business administration and sales and marketing apprentices told delegates at an apprenticeship conference that they had not been told at school that apprenticeships were an option. ‘I was never told about apprenticeships. It was always ‘uni is the way forward, uni is your life now’, but it just wasn’t for me. I was even told in my school that if I got an apprenticeship I would be wasting my time and I wouldn’t have a job … I am now 21, have my own house, a car, and have been promoted three times’. ‘I was never even taught how to write a CV, and was encouraged instead to concentrate on my UCAS personal statement’. Life Ready Work Ready October 2019
• Life Ready Work Ready October 2019 What do parents say? (Ofsted Parents Panel) Parents’ gave the following positive responses: the school kept them well informed of all options they received good and timely information children were given all options during school time children were well prepared and supported through post 16 process ongoing approach tailored over time to specific requirements. Life Ready Work Ready October 2019
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