In this section you will find links to useful resources and websites.
Quality Standards for Young Peoples' Information, Advice and Guidance
Standards to support development of consistently high quality and impartial IAG services as responsibility devolves from Connexions partnerships to Local Authorities. Also for use by learning providers, external IAG providers and users of IAG services.
Outlines 12 standards with evidence indicators.
Developing the IAG workforce
Materials designed to support the development of a collaborative approach to Careers Education and IAG for young people aged 11-19, to promote improvements in quality, consistency and coherence and to help partners to develop their IAG workforce.
Contains Starting Points, National Requirements and Guidance, Strategic Planning, Management Issues, Effective Delivery, Securing Quality, and Free Downloads. The latter includes training materials, audits, planning templates, lesson plans and other practical tools such as Diploma quizzes, progression maps and LMI summaries.
Supporting Choices 11-19+
Framework for implementing a 14-19 entitlement to IAG in England
Includes Introduction, Principles and Quality Standards, Amplification of the Entitlement to IAG, Delivery of the Entitlement to IAG, Auditing the IAG in schools and colleges, Sources and Contacts.
Quality Standards for Young Peoples’ Information, Advice and Guidance User Guide
Using the quality standards – support materials designed for Local Authorities, external providers, schools and other learning providers. Includes an audit form, details on evidence indicators and briefing notes for different partners, glossary and examples.
Better Practice: a guide to delivering effective career learning 11-19
Basic Information, Improving the Learning Process, Meeting Learner Needs, Partnership Working, Evaluating Impact.
DCSF 14-19 Education and Skills website
Includes comprehensive listings of support and training events available to consortia and other centres delivering or planning to deliver Diplomas. Excellence in Supporting Applied Learning, Report, Beacon Authority Good Practice, CBE Employer Engagement Support, CBE-supported Learning/Enterprise Days, Diploma and Consortia Readiness, an Essential Guide.
The Diploma
Concise general information website for young people, teachers, parents and employers.
QCA Diploma Website
General Information, Delivering the Diploma, Curriculum for the Diploma, Regulatory framework, Diploma Phase 3, Diploma Phase 4.
The 14-19 Diploma Gateway 3 Guidance
The14-19 Diploma in Context, Delivering the New Diplomas, The Role of 14-19 Partnerships, The 14-19 Gateway Process.
