Key Roles


Careers education and IAG are a shared responsibility and implementing the 14-19 reforms requires a collaborative approach to their planning, delivery and further development.


Local partnerships
To secure effective collaborative arrangements, partnerships must undertake joint strategic planning, management, organisation, monitoring and evaluation of careers education and IAG. These processes are informed by:

  • an analysis of local needs and related development and action plans
  • consultation with key stakeholders
  • the development of structures, systems and mechanisms to support joint working – e.g. protocols, policies, communication strategies, partnership and service level agreements.


External IAG providers
Connexions is in the process of transition. By April 2008, local authorities will be responsible for commissioning IAG and accountable for ensuring that it complies with national standards. In most cases children’s trusts, schools and colleges will work together on new arrangements, agreeing how best to deliver an area-wide approach to IAG underpinned by planned and progressive programmes of careers education. External IAG providers will continue to:

  • engage in multi-agency working to provide information, advice, guidance and access to personal development opportunities for young people
  • work to remove barriers to learning and progression and ensure that young people make a smooth transition to adulthood and working life
  • provide support for curriculum and staff development in relation to careers education and IAG to ensure that they are of high quality and fit with other aspects of the personal development curriculum and support arrangements for young people.

 


Schools, FE colleges and work-based learning providers
Good quality and coherent provision in individual organisations underpins effective local arrangements. Organisations should have:

  • a designated senior manager or leader with strategic responsibility for careers education and IAG within the organisation and with the authority to represent it at strategic level meetings within the local partnership
  • designated middle managers or leaders with operational responsibility for careers education and IAG
  • knowledgeable and informed staff who can deliver effective careers education and IAG
  • continuing professional development opportunities to meet identified training needs.


Questions to ask yourself

  • How do your working arrangements and staffing structures support partnership working and the effective delivery of careers education and IAG?
  • How do you know?
  • How could you improve working arrangements and staffing structures to improve the effectiveness of careers education and IAG?

 

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