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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

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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

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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

• pportunities for pupils to encounter the world of work.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

• f work.

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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 information, advice, guidance and support to achieve their next steps and progress to positive destinations. Leaders provide the support for staff to make this possible.

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Careers guidance: things to consider

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• 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?

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

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What do we see?

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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.

What do we see?

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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.

What do young people say?

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• 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’.

What do parents say? (Ofsted Parents Panel)

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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.

What do parents say? (Ofsted Parents’ Panel)

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Parents who responded negatively gave the following reasons:

• parents had to find out what is available for themselves
• information for children who have SEND virtually non existent
• lack of clarity and plans for children who have SEN
• lack of advice on courses relevant to chosen careers
• little or no information regarding options other than academic study e.g.

apprenticeships, vocational courses.

• there is a focus on keeping children at schools in sixth form so choices

limited. I was told that I needed to ‘do personal research’. When I said ‘are you saying Google it?’ I was told “pretty much”. I was lost!

Points to consider

• How effective is careers guidance? For example, is it

realistic and does it relate to pupils’ and students’ career aspirations?

• Is careers guidance recorded? What is the quality of

recording like?

• Are students placed on the right programme to meet

their abilities and career aspirations? (retention)

• What does careers provision for STEM (or T levels)

look like?

• What about careers guidance for level 2 students

who do not want to progress to level 3?

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Points to consider

• What about careers guidance for level 3 students who do not

want to apply to university?

• Is careers guidance tailored to pupils’ and students’ individual

needs? For example, students with high needs/SEND, children looked after and care leavers.

• Do you have a careers leader who is responsible for

coordinating careers guidance?

• Have you self-assessed careers guidance against the Compass

tool? How good is your action plan and how is this improving careers guidance?

• How has this information been communicated to staff?

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Recent inspection feedback, includes…

• School websites are lacking information about career

plans/activities for young people

• Not all websites are providing information about the named

careers guidance lead

• More schools are providing information on their website about

the Gatsby benchmarks (but Ofsted are not inspecting these – it is impact that we are concerned with)

• Schools, although reducing in number, are not all meeting the

requirements of the technical and further education act – letting in providers to talk about FES.

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Key messages

• Effective careers advice and guidance is integral

to an effective curriculum.

• We must ask – how well is a school preparing all

students for their next steps – whatever that might be?

• Inspectors are mindful of the governments career

strategy and the Gatsby career guidance benchmarks and expect to see the impact of these more commonplace within schools.

Ofsted on the web and on social media

www.gov.uk/ofsted https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk

www.linkedin.com/company/ofsted www.youtube.com/ofstednews www.slideshare.net/ofstednews www.twitter.com/ofstednews

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