Key Developments and Documents
Below you will find links to some key documents and websites detailing recent developments in the 14-19 curriculum:
Quality, Choice and Aspiration
The government's strategy for delivering Information, Advice and Guidance to young people. Published October 2009.
Statutory Guidance: Impartial Careers Education
This Guidance is for the governing bodies and head teachers of maintained secondary and middle schools (including academies and special schools), for local authorities and for teachers-in-charge of Pupil Referral Units.
Key Stage 3 CEG Conference - 5 November 2009
Connexions Staffordshire delivered a conference focusing on Key Stage 3 CEG to representatives from schools from across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent. The presentation is available here.
Developing the IAG Workforce
This website was commissioned by the DCSF to support the IAG workforce in the context of the roll-out of the 14-19 reforms.
Economic Wellbeing 11-19: Career, Work-related Learning and Enterprise
The new framework for work-related learning replaces the framework for work-related learning which was developed in 2003 to support the statutory requirement at Key Stage 4. It takes account of developments such as the new secondary curriculum, the 14-19 reform programme and the government’s strategy for enterprise and education.
The Work-related Learning Guide – First edition
This guide provides people with a good understanding of work-related learning. It is aimed at everyone involved - young people and their parents or carers, employers, schools and colleges and Education Business Partnership Organisations.
The Quality Standard for Work Experience
This booklet provides information and advice for work experience co-ordinators and teachers involved in work placements during Key stage 4.
Careers Education and Guidance in England (A National Framework 11–19)
This document presents a national, non-statutory Framework for Careers Education and Guidance 11-19. The Framework offers guidance on how schools, colleges and work-based learning organisations can develop improved programmes of careers education and guidance, which better prepare young people for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life. (Department for Education and Skills).
Guidance on the Work Related Learning Framework
Work related learning for all at key stage 4: Guidance on implementing the statutory requirement for 2004 for curriculum managers and coordinators of work-related learning; sets out the statutory requirement and non-statutory framework. (Qualifications & Curriculum Authority)
Practical Strategies for Developing Excellence in Careers Education
Better Practice II: Practical help on leading, managing and delivering effective careers education. (DfES, AICE, AECG)
Programmes of Study for Economic Well-being
QCA has established new non-statutory programmes of study for PSHE education at key stages 3 and 4, for Year 7, for implementing from September 2008.
Supporting Choices
A framework for implementing a 14-19 entitlement for Information, Advice and Guidance in England.
Supporting Choices – The Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent Way
Local Supporting Choices framework using the national framework.
Raising the Participation Age (RPA)
A range of RPA resources and teaching materials are available from the Specialist Schools and Acadamies Trust. View them on their website.
