Careers Programme

We are committed to ensure all students have access to high quality impartial careers advice, and to employers who can help students consider their future options into employment, apprenticeships or further and higher education.

To help us do this we link our careers guidance to the Gatsby Benchmarks which have been explicitly referenced throughout the DfE’s Careers Strategy (December 2017) and the new Statuary Guidance for careers (January 2023).

The following 8 benchmarks outlined 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

At present we meet each of these benchmarks through the following provisions:
Impartial Careers Advice - We have a dedicated Careers advisor from SkillsHouse (BMDC), and we also have an in-house Careers co-ordinator who organises Work Experience and additional Careers activities.