Careers Education Information Advice and Guidance (CEIAG)
Careers Education Information Advice and Guidance
We aim to raise the aspirations of all our learners, increase their employability and social skills and achieve qualifications to enable them to progress into employment and adulthood successfully.
CEIAG is central and embedded throughout all our programmes. All of our programmes are designed to support learners to make progress towards gaining employment in their chosen area.
Our CEIAG delivery is based on the eight Gatsby benchmarks of good practice:
- a stable careers programme
- learning from career and labour market information
- addressing the needs of each learner
- linking curriculum learning to careers
- encounters with employers and employees
- experience of workplaces
- encounters with further and higher education
- personal guidance
The CEIAG will support learners to:
- understand themselves, their interests, likes and dislikes, what they are good at and how this affects their choices
- understand the different routes for young people including training, further and higher education, apprenticeships and employment
- gain experience of different employers through visits, taster days and work experience
- make realistic, but ambitious, choices about their next steps
- develop the skills they may need for working life and independence
- develop a plan of action for the future
This will begin before the learner enrols on the programme with a CEIAG interview to determine which is the correct programme.
Throughout the learner's chosen programme CEIAG will be embedded through taught sessions, 1:1s, work experience and other organised activities, such as:
- visits to employers
- careers events
- guest speakers
Also, learners will have their progress reviewed every 12 weeks and this will give the opportunity to decide if any additional interventions need to be put in place and reflect on targets and goals.
If the learner is out on work experience the employer will be asked to contribute to the review.
During these reviews staff will offer further information, advice and guidance to support the young person to achieve.
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