💬 “Hartlepool has high levels of unemployment, poverty and deprivation - the risk of young people becoming NEET is big, making a strong careers programme all the more important." Learn more from our benchmarks champion, Lisa Greig, CEO of Hartlepool Aspire Trust 📄➡️: bit.ly/4rcpUBg

A year ago we launched the updated #GatsbyBenchmarks. Today we celebrate their impact so far: more schools/colleges reporting on progress + more benchmarks being achieved = new evidence showing good careers guidance is helping prevent ~6,000 young people becoming NEET each year 🎉

Is Labour delivering the #skills employers need? Join us & New Statesman in the morning at #Lab25 to hear from Skills Minister Jacqui Smith, OECD’s Andreas Schleicher, John Banks from Lloyds Banking Group, Chris Mayne from Teleplan Forsberg, and Gatsby’s Nigel Thomas

A leadership moment: DfE calls on heads and principals to embed the updated #GatsbyBenchmarks. Strong careers guidance improves outcomes and reduces NEET rates. Explore new tools to prepare for Sept 2025: www.resources.careersandenterprise.co.uk/meaningful-achievement-gatsby-benchmark

Lisa Greig, CEO of Hartlepool Aspire Trust, writes for SEN Magazine about the potential of the updates to the #GatsbyBenchmarks, now part of government guidance for schools, colleges and ITPs, for young people with special educational needs and disabilities: senmagazine.co.uk/featured-art...

Good careers guidance changes lives. Schools, colleges and ITPs are gearing up for the updated Gatsby Benchmarks rollout in September. Visit Gatsby’s new champions hub to see how practitioners are implementing the updates: www.gatsbybenchmarks.org.uk/gatsby-benchmarks-champions

Today the government confirmed that secondary schools, colleges and ITPs will be expected to shape careers programmes using the updated #GatsbyBenchmarks from September 2025. A huge thank you to everyone who helped shape the updates and get us to this milestone. Find out more: bit.ly/benchmarksnews

Career choices don’t end at 18 – access to high-quality career guidance can make a meaningful difference whatever someone’s age or stage. Read our latest article to learn more about our recent work exploring what good career guidance for adults looks like 📖: www.gatsby.org.uk/education/la...

📢 NEW: Global lessons on good career guidance for adults 🌍

Our new research with SQW and the International Centre for Guidance Studies gives insights into international best practice, from union-led services in Finland to subsidised guidance for those in work in Flanders, Belgium: bit.ly/4iXTVA3

"Government commitment to T-levels remains steadfast" Skills Minister Jacqui Smith speaking at yesterday's #T-levels APPG. She urged attendees to champion the qualifications, and reflected on the critical value of the framework of occupational standards that underpins apprenticeships and #T-levels

We’re shining a spotlight on the people shaping and delivering great career guidance across the country this #NCW2025. Here’s Ben Knocks of Weston College on where to start with embedding a strong and stable careers programme, using the updated Gatsby Benchmarks (www.gatsbybenchmarks.org.uk)

In the spirit of celebrating great career guidance this National Careers Week, we've launched a quick-read guide to the updates to the Gatsby Benchmarks - see what’s new, what remains the same, and why: gatsbybenchmarks.org.uk/news/quick-read-guide-to-the-gatsby-benchmarks-updates-launches

#NCW2025

T Levels are qualifications for 16 to 19 year olds taken after GCSEs. They are broadly equivalent to 3 A levels and focus on technical and vocational skills. Each T Level includes an in-depth industry placement that lasts at least 45 days. #TLevelThursday #NAW2025

Find out more: tlevelinfo.org.uk

As the Government publishes its English Devolution white paper, with skills being a 'core lever for growth', we look at ways in which Mayoral Combined Authorities and Employer Representative Bodies (ERBs) can encourage more SMEs to offer apprenticeships.

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Can AI support #FE teacher recruitment? SchoolDash
analysed over 36k vacancies on the @aoc-info.bsky.social
jobs board over 28 months using ChatGPT. Read more on how they did it, what they found, and the difference it could make to FE colleges' recruitment strategies:

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