Statement Of Intent
The landscape of education, training and employment opportunities that students and parents need to navigate is more complex and challenging than that faced by previous generations.
The Wey Valley Academy Careers Advice and Guidance team is currently working towards the Quality in Careers Standard Award, which ensures that the career advice and guidance that your child will receive is impartial and the information provided will help your child’s career development.
Wey Valley Academy is effectively and efficiently working towards the Gatsby Benchmarks and the CDI Framework. This will be evaluated and monitored through Compass+. The team will uphold the CDI Code of Ethics and review all CEIAG policy documents.
Provider Access Legislation
The provider access legislation is new guidance that comes into force from January 2023. It is a key mechanism to further help learners understand and take-up, not just apprenticeships, but wider technical education options such as T-Levels and Higher Technical Qualifications.
The updated provider access legislation (PAL) specifies schools must provide at least six encounters for all their students:
- Two encounters for pupils during the ‘first key phase’ (year 8 or 9) that are mandatory for all pupils to attend
- Two encounters for pupils during the ‘second key phase’ (year 10 or 11) that are mandatory for all pupils to attend
- Two encounters for pupils during the ‘third key phase’ (year 12 or 13) that are mandatory for the school to put on but optional for pupils to attend.
In the context of the provider access legislation, a provider is an organisation that offers approved technical education qualifications or their representative, for example an FE college or training provider.
A provider, to whom access is given, must deliver an encounter that includes the following:
- Information about the provider and the approved technical education qualifications or apprenticeships that the provider offers
- Information about the careers to which those technical education qualifications or apprenticeships might lead
- A description of what learning or training with the provider is like
- Responses to questions from the pupils about the provider or approved technical education qualifications and apprenticeships.
Support with the full statutory guidance from DfE can be found here
The Careers Team
The academy has a dedicated careers team who
are here to help guide students through their career and future options.
Careers Leader – Mrs J Rogers jennifer.rogers@wva.weareauthentic.education
Vice Principal for SMSC – Miss L Bucke laura.bucke@wva.weareauthentic.education
Wey Valley Academy Careers Policy
To help and guide our students, as they start to consider their future, we offer careers education and guidance via the curriculum, assemblies, work experience and 1-1 meetings with a qualified Careers Adviser.
We welcome approaches from, and work with, higher education providers, local further education colleges, apprenticeship providers, employers and our alumni to support our CEIAG programme.
The Academy has completed the Careers and Enterprise Company Compass evaluation tool and is using this to support the development of the Academy’s Career Development Plan.
CEIAG programme
We are committed to providing a planned programme of high quality Careers
Education, Information, Advice and Guidance (CEIAG) to all students and recognise the important role that careers education / work-related learning plays in:
- Preparing and supporting young people to sustain employability and achieve personal and economic wellbeing throughout their lives.
- Raising aspirations and inspiring young people to achieve their full potential.
- Supporting young people to plan and manage their own futures.
- Contributing to strategies for raising achievement, especially by increasing motivation.
- Developing key skills, such as communication, resilience, team working, problem solving and personal management.