Introducing the Gatsby Benchmarks to teachers and managers answers the following questions:

• What do teachers and managers need to understand about the Gatsby Benchmarks?
• Why is it important ensure that teachers and managers understand the Benchmarks?
• How you can introduce the benchmarks to teachers and managers?
• Who else can help you to spread understanding of the benchmarks?
• It also provides an editable information sheet template to share with teachers and managers and links to 2 exemplar resources.

Writing the school careers plan answers the following questions:

• What should be included in the school careers plan?
• Why is it important to go through the process of developing the school careers plans?
• How will you go about creating your school careers plan?
• Who else is involved in creating and reviewing the plan?
• It also provides an editable school careers plan template and links to 9 exemplar school plans.

Writing the careers activity calendar answers the following questions:

• What should be included in the careers activity calendar?
• Why is it important to list all careers activity in the calendar?
• How will you go about creating your calendar?
• Who else is involved in creating and reviewing the calendar?
• It also includes two editable calendar resources and links to 5 exemplar school calendars.

Writing the school work experience plan answers the following questions:

• What should be included in the school work experience plan?
• Why is it important to write a work experience plan?
• How will you go about creating the work experience plan?
• Who else should be involved in creating and reviewing the work experience plan?
• It also provides an editable template document for your work experience plan, links to 7 exemplar school work plans and 12 other useful resources.

Writing the careers website page answers the following questions:

• What should be included on the school careers webpage?
• Why is it important to create the school careers webpage?
• How you will go about creating the webpage?
• Who else is involved in creating and reviewing the webpage?
• It also provides an editable template to ensure your careers webpage includes all relevant information and links to 8 exemplar school websites.

Writing the Provider Access Statement answers the following questions:

• What should be included in the provider access statement?
• Why is it important to write a provider access statement?
• How will you go about creating the provider access statement?
• Who else should be involved in creating and reviewing the statement?
• It also provides an editable template provider access statement, links to 5 exemplar statements and access to 2 government documents.

Scheduling parent communications answers the following questions:

• What communications should be sent to parents about the school careers programme?
• Why is it important to schedule communications to parents?
• How will you go about scheduling communications to parents?
• Who else should be involved in scheduling communications to parents?
• It also provides an editable template planner for your parent communications and links to 12 exemplar schools newsletters, bulletins and social media accounts.

Auditing careers in the curriculum answers the following questions:

• What should be included in the careers in the curriculum audit?
• Why is it important to audit careers in the curriculum?
• How will you go about auditing careers in the curriculum?
• Who else should be involved in auditing careers in the curriculum?
• It also provides an editable careers in the curriculum audit template and link to a background research document.

Engaging local employers answers the following questions:

• What does employer engagement means?
• Why is it important to engage local employers?
• How will you go about engaging local employers?
• Who else in school is involved in employer engagement?
• It also provides links to 12 organisations that can help you to engage with local employers

Engaging the Local Enterprise Partnership answers the following questions:

• What support can Local Enterprise Partnerships offer the school careers programme?
• Why should the school engage with LEPs?
• How will you go about engaging with the LEP?
• Who else should be involved in engaging with the LEP?
• It also provides links to all 32 Local Enterprise Partnerships

Scheduling careers meetings answers the following questions:

• What should be included in your careers meetings?
• Why is it important to plan and schedule for your careers meetings?
• How will you go about planing your careers meetings?
• It also provides an editable template to plan and record careers meetings.

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