• Every school should have an embedded programme of career education and guidance that is known and understood by students, parents, teachers, governors, employers and other agencies. 

• Every school should have a stable, structured careers programme that has the explicit backing of the senior management team and has an identified and appropriately trained person responsible for it. 

• The careers programme should be published on the school’s website in a way that enables students, parents, school staff and employers to access and understand it. 

• The programme should be regularly evaluated with feedback from students, parents, school staff and employers as part of the evaluation process. 

• Providers of technical (including higher technical) education, vocational education and apprenticeships should be given the opportunity to engage with students and their parents so that all routes at 16 and 18 are fully understood and so that students can make informed decisions at key transition points

The careers section on your website is its window to the world, including for employers and Ofsted.  You can encourage more employers to take part in your careers programme through your website.  You can also give Ofsted comfort in your careers provision by having all required information on the website but also additional information to support the Gatsby benchmarks and stakeholders.  

 School careers statutory guidance states your school website MUST:  

• publish the name and contact details of the Careers Leader  

• publish a summary of your careers programme that can accessed by students, parents, teachers and employers.  It is not recommended that your full Careers Strategy document is published as is will have a lot of information that is not relevant to the target audiences.  The summary should include at least the following:  

• • Delivery of independent careers guidance  

• • How the school is working towards achieving the eight Gatsby benchmarks  

• • Aim, objectives and activities provided for each year group  

• publish how your school measures the impact of the careers programme on students.  

• publish the school’s next review date of the careers information published.  

• publish a Provider Access Statement (updated to encompass the Provider Access Legislation), setting out the arrangements for training and education providers to access ALL students to ensure they have an opportunity to learn about approved technical qualifications or apprenticeships.  An example/template for a Provider Access Statement can be found from page 55 here.  

An example careers website section can be found here: https://careersexample.wordpress.com