Making an impact on young people’s career choices

Our Careers Hub, work with over 210 schools in our nine boroughs to bring together careers leaders and employers, to enhance Careers Education and Information, Advice and Guidance (CEIAG).

Our team ensure CEIAG is relevant to the needs of the labour market and inspires students to consider the huge opportunities available to them post-16.

Across our boroughs, our dedicated team support careers leaders and teachers in partnership with employers, to develop exciting initiatives, events, workshops and site visits that have improved careers education in our schools and colleges.

This improvement has been marked by a year-on-year increase in mainstream and special education establishments meeting the national standards (Gatsby Benchmarks) in eight key areas of careers education.

Achievements across Local London

This year we are proud to report that we are engaged with more mainstream and specialist schools than ever before to enhance CEIAG.

This year our achievements include:

• 214 schools engaged with our Careers Hub (94% of schools in our sub-region)
• 27% increase in average careers benchmark attainment across the sub-region.
• 23% of schools achieving all eight benchmarks – including mainstream and SEND schools, and alternative provision establishments in Barking and Dagenham, Greenwich, Newham and Waltham Forest – exceeding the national average of 20%.
• Over 7,200 students from 29 institutions completed the Careers and Enterprise Company’s Future Skills Questionnaire – that helps measure learners’ career readiness and the impact of careers education programmes.
• 31 schools from across all 9 of our boroughs benefitted from our Careers Impact Fund, this supported additional careers activities including: work experience placements, and interactions with employers, further and higher education institutions.

Borough highlights include:

• 100% of schools in Havering engaged with the Careers Hub.
• Over 90% of schools in Barking and Dagenham, Bexley, Bromley, Newham and Waltham Forest are engaged with the Careers Hub.
• 100% of schools in Greenwich received support from an enterprise adviser.
• 5 schools from Redbridge took part in the Social Enterprise Schools: Dragons’ Den competition at Redbridge Town Hall in Ilford, pitching enterprise ideas to panel of experts.

Celebrating the business people and educators making careers education brilliant

One of the team’s major focuses is to recruit employees from businesses to work with education establishments   share their experiences with young people about moving into their role and sector, as well as to help teachers learn about career pathways for their students.

A key highlight from the year was the conference celebrating the work of our brilliant careers leaders and volunteers from businesses (known as enterprise advisers) from across our boroughs. Over 130 careers leaders and enterprise advisers were invited to come together to network, learn and recognise the most outstanding local achievements.

Find out more about our Careers Education Community Conference.

Help inspire young people in east London

Our Careers Hub team is always looking for volunteers from all kinds of businesses who can engage and inspire young people in the north east and south east London to broaden and raise their career aspirations. Could you share your experience and learning?

Get in touch with careershub.east@redbridge.gov.uk

Find out more and watch our video about volunteering with us.

Our thanks to partners and schools

These great achievements have only been made possible with the support of fantastic schools and career leaders, our growing network of enthusiastic enterprise advisers, and our funders: Careers and Enterprise Company and Mayor of London.