Careers guidance policy: model and examples

What you need to do

The DfE's statutory careers guidance applies to:

• All maintained schools, including maintained special schools and pupil referral units (PRUs)
• Academies and free schools, if their funding agreements include this requirement. If not, they're still encouraged to follow the guidance as a statement of good practice

The requirements do not apply to non-maintained special schools and independent schools.

Under these requirements, maintained secondary schools must and academies should publish details of their careers programme on their websites.

For maintained schools this must include, and for academies it should include, the following: 

• The name, email address and telephone number of the school's careers leader
• A summary of the careers programme, including details of how pupils, parents, teachers and employers can access information about the careers programme
• How the school measures and assesses the impact of the careers programme on pupils
• The date of the school's next review of the information published

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