Resources : Careers Leads

The Equalex Framework

The Equalex Framework to support educators as they embed meaningful workplace experiences within a progressive whole school careers programme.

Understanding how to embed progressive encounters with further and higher education (2025)

Understanding how to embed progressive employer encounters and work experiences (2025)

Embedding meaningful encounters with employers/employees and planning for modern work experience are key to high quality careers provision. These 2 x guides form part of the 2025 'How to.....' series from the Careers & Enterprise Company

Understanding how to embed careers in the curriculum (2025)

Threading careers through the wider curriculum is key to developing impactful careers provision. This guide forms part of the 2025 'How to......' series from the Careers & Enterprise Company

Understanding how to effectively evaluate your careers provision (2025)

Evaluation is integral to continuous improvement of careers provision. This guide forms part of the 2025 'How to.....' series from the Careers & Enterprise Company

Ofsted – Education Inspection Framework Guide 2019

This guide is for school leaders and careers leaders to support preparation for the Education Inspection Framework (2019). The guide also provides Enterprise Advisers and Governors with key questions to support strategic careers planning. The Ofsted Inspection Framework is expected to be updated Autumn 2025.

Careers Education: A Guide for secondary school governors updated 2025

This guide helps Governors to support Careers Leaders around the Careers Strategy highlighting priority areas to maximise the impact of careers and the support and resources available.

Careers Education: A Guide for college governors updated 2025

This guide helps Governors to support Careers Leaders around the Careers Strategy, highlighting priority areas to maximise the impact of careers and the support and resources available.

Providing an effective careers programme: the role of governing boards updated for 2025

Supporting young people to make informed choices about their future is an important responsibility for schools and their governing boards

All About Me

Developed by Green Corridor College this resource is part of the My Skills My Future programme.

Activity linked to TV SEND

Developed by the Inspiring Worcestershire Careers Hub team this resource has been specifically designed to be used as a discussion activity with SEND students around a TV programme linked to the world of work.

SEND A- Z of jobs activity SEND

Developed by the Inspiring Worcestershire Careers Hub team, this activity will enable SEND students to begin to learn how to research information regarding different job roles of interest to them.

SEND Same and Different

Learn more about the various aspects of early career development for 18-year olds with SEND and provide more targeted support with this model.

SEND Journey/Roadmap

Take a step in the right direction: help all stakeholders understand your SEND careers programme by using this template to present it visually.

SEND – My Skills My Future

This programme has been collated from resources across our partners and network to support young people with SEND under the 2 groups identified in the SEND toolkit. It contains lessons around employability skill development , employer projects and engagement videos all to support young people in their next steps.

Natspec

Natspec is the membership association for organisations which offer specialist further education and training for students with learning difficulties and/or disabilities.

Using the Gatsby Benchmarks for students with SEND

Good career guidance ensures that all young people, whatever their needs, background or ambitions, know the options open to them and can make the informed choices needed to fulfil their potential.

Stage 3 : Evaluation and Review – Resource 7 : Gathering feedback and learnings from activities

Stage 2: Planning and Implementation – Resource 6 : Guidance on choosing and planning an activity

Stage 2: Planning and Implementation – Resource 5 : Gaining Support from different stakeholders

Stage 2: Planning and Implementation – Resource 4 : Tips for effective communication

Stage 1 : Awareness and Engagement – Resource 3 : Engaging with a School, Special School or College

Stage 1 : Awareness and Engagement – Resource 2 : The benefits and challenges

Stage 1 : Awareness and Engagement – Resource 1 : The Careers Landscape

Supporting Employers: Working with Young People with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)

Business Studies : Tesco Finance – Initiative for The Future Investment Business Case

We challenge you to change the future of retail. The challenge involves the creation of an investment business case, and accompanying presentation, within a number of fictitious retail scenarios.

Design Technology / Engineering : Skills Miner – Minecraft game

Skills Miner is a collection of four custom levels inside the Minecraft game. The players complete tasks, solve puzzles, and find logical solutions to problems. The intention is to uncover engineering skills in players, award them online badges, and direct them to meaningful “real-life” content to inspire a generation of engineers.

Creative Subjects : Discover Creative Careers

Funded by DCMS and led by industry, the Discover Creative Careers website is an online portal packed with information, resources, events to help young people explore roles in the creative industries

Modern Foreign Languages : AET and EKFB: Careers in MFL (French) resource

What is included: Fully resourced lesson plans for Year 7, 8, 9 and 10 with comprehensive teacher notes, student facing slides and guidance on extension and differentiation

The WOW Show

The WOW Show content provides virtual video encounters in line with Gatsby Benchmark 5 for young people to explore a significant range of workplaces and ‘meet’ near peers to understand what their jobs are really like.

Geography : My Environment My Future

My Environment My Future provides 6 lesson plans to enrich the teaching of the Urban Environments module in GCSE Geography.

Geography : AET and The National Trust: Careers in Geography resource

Year 7 resource: Customised maps for different users and places
Year 8 resource: More bluebells or more visitors - tough choices!
Year 9 resource: GIS and Carbon Capture: A 21st century approach to a 21st century challenge
Year 10 resource: The Decision Maker: Choosing a sustainable future for the Buscott & Coleshill Estates

English : KS3 English Careers in the Curriculum Resource

This fully resourced unit of work (8 – 10 lessons) is designed for learners in Year 7-8 and explores the world of work through an English lens.

English : National Teen Book Club

A first of a kind programme, bringing together 11 to 19-year-olds from hundreds of state schools and colleges, across every corner of the UK, to a shared virtual Book Club.
Over four weeks, young people will connect online from home, or from school or college with an educator, for our weekly event every Wednesday, 3.30pm to 4.30pm. 

English : AET and Tesco: Careers in English resources

Year 7 resource – looking at energy reduction in Tesco stores
Year 8 resource – ensuring inclusion and diversity in recruitment
Year 9 resource – can we identify trends and predict the future (Tesco marketing)
Year 10 resource – How can we evaluate the best moral position to take? (Tesco climate change managers)

Maths : Where Maths meets the World of Work

The AMSP has created exciting sets of resources to support Maths teachers to link curriculum learning to careers and which showcase the maths in different careers. Each resource contains a video paired with activities, so your students can get a real taste of what the job may entail.

Maths : AET and Pinewood Year 9 resource

Filling a Film Studio

How can you maximise revenue through occupancy?

This lesson could be placed at the end of a Mathematics unit on Percentages

Maths : AET and Pinewood Year 8 resource

How big is the table, how small is the White Rabbit’s house?

How can we use ratio & proportion when building sets & props?

Maths : AET and Pinewood Year 7 resource

This lesson could be placed at the end of a Mathematics unit on data and statistics

Introduction to Pinewood Studios: what happens at the studios etc. What are the different roles involved in making a TV show? What is Audience share analysis? Why is it important?

What does it mean to re-commission a series?

Maths : AET and Pinewood Year 10 resource

This lesson could be placed at the end of a Mathematics unit on Geometry & Shape.

What does the role of a set designer involve?

Why is it important for them to create 2D drawings before they start building a set?

 HS2 STEM Lessons inc SEND offer

HS2 have developed a new collection of STEM lessons and activities, to support teachers who would like to bring a careers context to curriculum learning. 

Augment ourselves resource – KS3

How could we augment ourselves? is a collection of practical STEM subject activities linked to employability skills and careers. Students will consider how amazing the human body is and look at how it could be adapted. The activities explore how science and engineering can be used to augment humans, from using nutrition to improve brain functionality to exploring wing designs to make humans fly.

Animal Adaptations – STEM subject activities – KS2 and year 7

Animal Adaptions is a collection of practical STEM subject activities linked to employability skills. Pupils look at how animals have adapted to cope with all sorts of conditions. They explore communication strategies, travel, camouflage and life in challenging settings, and look at the way humans can learn from animals

Shropshire Careers Vimeo Channel

40 videos made by local employers and businesses, showcasing professions and employability skills, making links to school subjects

BBC Bitesize – Careers

This well-known resource can be used to help contextualise the world of work alongside curriculum study – and support young people in making informed decisions

My Learning, My Future

My Learning, My Future is a suite of Benchmark 4 resources to support subject teaching staff, from over 20 subjects at KS3 & 4, to engage students in curriculum learning by highlighting the relevance of their subjects to future careers and opportunities.The aim of the resources is for students to see the relevance and value of subject curriculum teaching and learning and to be explicitly supported in making connections between subjects and pathways to positive transitions.

CEIAG cross curricular audit – Black Country

This resource, developed by the Black Country Skills Factory, helps Careers Leaders identify whether or not careers are embedded within curriculum subject areas.

Careers in Food & Drink

Brought to you by The National Skills Academy for Food and Drink, Tasty Careers is here to help you find a Tasty Career in the Food & Drink Industry.

MSMF Employer projects: Catcote Academy

This page contains resources for the Employer project section of the My Skills My Future programme designed by the team at Catcote Academy a Special