Event Summary

Westminster Insight is delighted to announce its inaugural Careers and Destinations Strategies for Schools digital conference, taking place online, this September.

Providing careers guidance and tracking pupils’ destinations, through the Gatsby Benchmarks, is a statutory requirement for schools and colleges in England. Expanded in 2025, the start of October 2026 will mark a year since the Gatsby Benchmarks were updated

Chaired by David Morgan, Chief Executive at the Career Development Institute, our timely and expert-led event will look at careers and destination strategies for schools, colleges, and other education providers. Our expert keynote speakers from the Gatsby Education, and from the Department for Education, will share invaluable insights and practical tips with you.

This is an important area, with Ofsted evaluating the quality of careers programmes, and stronger accountability than previously; and the introduction on important elements, such as the Work Experience Guarantee.

This conference will give you the learning, expertise, and strategies to help you deliver an excellent Careers and Destinations programme and track its success. How do you put together a workable plan?

How do you find useful, independent, impartial guidance, to help pupils align learning and skills with future jobs?  How do you remain agile in adapting learning to a fast-changing work environment?  Also, how do you ensure pupils understand academic and technical pathways? You will hear from the Modern Work Experience Pilot in Liverpool; and Kent County Council will discuss the post-16 Guarantee.

Finding and utilising the best Careers and Destinations strategies and tools, capturing useful experiences, and monitoring and tracking effectiveness, is potentially an enormous task. It’s also one that’s important to get it right; a critical component in equipping pupils adequately for their future.  

A good Careers and Destinations programme can be hard to measure, and it can be challenging to communicate its value, and get buy-in. Through recommended case studies, we will showcase how to design and deliver careers education across the curriculum and measure the effectiveness of your programme.  The Careers and Enterprise Company will focus on capturing experiences and tracking destinations, while the Wave Multi-Academy Trust will focus on inclusivity.

Please join us for informative keynotes, focussed case studies, expert panel sessions, and practical pilots and spotlights. Engage with peers, practitioners, and specialists, from schools and colleges, local authorities, careers education providers, businesses supporting work placements, and ICPs.

Key Outcomes

  • The new Work Placements Guarantee and finding useful, practical work placements
  • How changes to the Gatsby Benchmarks have impacted careers and destinations programmes
  • Providing meaningful encounters for pupils throughout the school journey.
  • Inclusion and equality and support for SEND pupils.
  • Social mobility: doesn’t work experience favour those with access to it?
  • What constitutes good careers advice, and how to track the results
  • Staffing for careers: managing time and resources, and balancing workloads
  • Encouraging pupils to prioritise careers and destinations
  • Tools and techniques to capture pupil journeys and track careers and destinations successfully
  • Raising awareness of apprenticeships alongside university
  • Teaching career skills: interviews, job descriptions, applications, presentations.
  • Employability fairs: what does a good fair look like?
  • Community outreach and recruitment; and working with other schools.

Group discounts

Contact us for group rates.