Launched by the Careers and Enterprise Company (CEC) and the Gatsby Foundation, the tool allows schools to monitor and evaluate their provision against eight national benchmarks. Called Compass, the tool is designed to help schools identify areas of provision that need the most development.
The eight benchmarks were developed for the Gatsby Foundation by Sir John Holman, emeritus professor at the University of York and a former headteacher, in his 2014 report Good Career Guidance. They are:
Claudia Harris, chief executive of the CEC, which has been funded by government to improve the quality of careers advice across the country, said: “We know that the standard of careers education varies across the country and that is why we have partnered with the Gatsby Foundation to create the Compass tool and help address this problem. Compass will help drive up standards of careers programmes.”
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