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Secondary Schools

Supporting all North East schools and colleges to achieve the good Career Guidance benchmarks by 2024.

We’ve pulled together, advice, guidance and information to help careers leaders to deliver the benchmarks in a secondary school.

Benchmark 1: A stable careers programme

Find out how to link your programme with the ethos, culture and values of your institution and share best practice when making taking a strategic approach to careers.

Benchmark 2: Interpreting and learning from local labour market information

Learning from career and labour market information can help young people understand future study options and opportunities in the North East.

Benchmark 3: Addressing the needs of each pupil

Benchmark 3 focuses on the importance of addressing the needs of each and every pupil.
 

Benchmark 4: Linking Curriculum Learning to Careers

Embedding careers in the curriculum can provide that key line of sight from the classroom to the world of work for young people.

Benchmark 5: Encounters with employers and employees

Benchmark 5 focuses on the importance of every pupil having multiple opportunities to learn from employers about work, employment and the skills that are valued in the workplace.

Benchmark 6: Experiences of workplaces

We've brought together resources, advice and guidance on how to make progress towards achieving benchmark 6 in your school or college.

Benchmark 7: Encounters with Further and Higher Education

This toolkit bringing together resources, advice and guidance on how to make progress towards achieving benchmark 7 in your school or college.

Benchmark 8: The importance of personal guidance

Benchmark 8 focuses on the importance of personal guidance, it sets an expectation that all students will have a career guidance interview with a professionally qualified careers adviser by age 16 and the opportunity for a further such interviews between 16 and 18.

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