Careers Education, Guidance and Employability play an important part in the lives of students at Hagley Catholic High School. The aim of our programme is to provide students with the skills and knowledge to make wise and informed choices regarding their future and develop skills to prepare them for their working life.

CEIAG enables the students to make informed, balanced and appropriate decisions
about many key areas of their future development, progression and career
pathways. CEIAG at Hagley is completely impartial which enables CEIAG to be
delivered in an objective and balanced manner by all staff, so that each student
receives exactly the same opportunities to explore potential pathways. It is delivered
via the Character and Culture curriculum across the school.

Employability skills and work experience is a major focus in Year 10 and 12; Year 11
and Year 13 have a robust programme in order to ensure that students are well prepared for their next phase of life.

There is a Careers Drop-In area in the Sixth Form Study Centre, which is available to
every student. Here students have access to up to date information about their future
options via leaflets, books, magazines and university prospectuses in addition to
advice from the Sixth Form team.

In addition to this, any advice or guidance given to students is personalised and
appropriate. Hagley Catholic High School also believes that working with outside
agencies is an invaluable part of the CEIAG curriculum on offer and we work with
colleges, training providers, universities and employers to ensure that individual
student needs are met.

The school’s Careers Adviser is Mrs Nikki Copitch. She is available for drop-in
sessions at break and lunchtimes on Mondays and Tuesdays. Students,
parents/carers, employers and other outside agencies can contact our careers
advisor via the link below. Students can also message her in Teams.

We are very proud of our Business Partnership links with employers. These
employers are invited to support students in their learning through work placements,
talks, interview preparation, careers fairs and work-related learning events.
We have also invested in the Unifrog platform. This provides students with
information they need to make important decisions about future careers.

Hagley Catholic High School is an active member of the Worcestershire Careers
Hub and supports the development of Worcestershire's Future Workforce through
the Worcestershire Enterprise Adviser Network.

The following information is an extract taken from the Department for Education's
Careers Strategy.

"The careers strategy sets out that every school and academy providing secondary
education should use the Gatsby Charitable Foundation's Benchmarks to develop
and improve their careers provision. This statutory guidance has been restructured
around the Benchmarks with information on what schools need to do to meet each
one. The Gatsby Benchmarks are not a statutory framework but by adopting them,
schools can be confident that they are fulfilling their legal duties: the existing duties
to secure independent careers guidance and provide opportunities to a range of
providers to inform pupils about technical education qualifications or apprenticeships
and the new duty to publish information about the careers programme on the school
website."

As an education establishment, we ensure we use the 8 Gatsby Benchmarks as a
foundation when planning our Careers Strategy. The effectiveness of our provision is
inspected and audited by the Careers and Enterprise Company using the Compass
Careers Benchmark Tool. This tool is used by schools and colleges in England to
support the analysis and evaluation of careers activity against the eight benchmarks
of best practice (known as the Gatsby Benchmarks). The Careers and Enterprise
Company coordinate the audit deadlines. This ensures the development of our
careers strategy is ongoing to support best practice.

In line with the recommendations set out in Gatsby Benchmark 1, we as a school
plan to review the published information on an annual basis, inviting feedback from
key audiences.

Measuring Impact:

Student Voice - Summer Terms
Annual Destination Measures and Report
Work Experience Engagement and student/employer feedback
Parent and Employer Voice