Source · Select Committees · Education Committee
Recommendation 19
19
Accepted
Develop tailored Gatsby benchmarks for primary schools and provide guidance to meet them.
Conclusion
Additionally, the Department should work with the Gatsby Foundation to develop a tailored set of benchmarks for careers education in primary schools and provide guidance and resources through the Careers and Enterprise Company to support schools to meet them. (Paragraph 67) Embedding careers into the curriculum
Government response summary AI-generated
The government accepts the recommendation, agreeing to work with the Gatsby Foundation and other stakeholders to develop a tailored framework of benchmarks for primary careers education. They will also consider how the Careers & Enterprise Company (CEC) can best support primary schools to meet these, with further details to be published in a Strategic Action Plan for Careers in 2024.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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104. The Department agrees that guidance and resources are important to support primary schools with their careers provision. We recognise that a number of witnesses to the inquiry suggested that a framework equivalent to the Gatsby Benchmarks would be helpful for primary schools. 105. Recognising that careers provision in primary schools is very different to the structured programme we expect to see in secondary education, the Department funded the 2018 ‘What Works’ report on primary careers education. In addition to the 2019/20 pilot, this led to the development and testing of six principles of career-related learning in primary schools. 106. This resulted in the establishment of the Primary Platform , a digital hub of tools, guidance and a wide range of resources, mapped to the six principles and the Skills Builder Framework . The Platform currently enables self-assessment through the completion of an audit tool, allowing educators to track and evaluate their school’s provision against the six principles. 107. The Department envisages a role in continuing to bring together evidence of what works and building on the Primary Platform to further support teachers with the best tailored guidance, support and resources for the sector.
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