Event Summary

Westminster Insight is delighted to announce its first innovative and cross-cutting Careers and Destinations Strategies for Schools 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.  The benchmarks were expanded in 2025, with new measures becoming statutory requirements in October 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, thoroughly researched and expert-led practical event, will look at progress and outcomes.  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.  Our expert keynote speakers from Gatsby Education, and from the Department for Education, will share invaluable insights and practical tips with you.

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.

Recommended case studies will showcase how to design and deliver careers education across the curriculum.  Additionally, how do you measure the effectiveness of your programme?  The Careers and Enterprise Company will focus on capturing experiences and tracking destinations. Our expert joint session will spotlight working together for meaningful work encounters; and the Wave Multi-Academy Trust will focus on inclusivity.

Finding and utilizing 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.  But a good Careers and Destinations programme can be hard to measure, and it can be challenging to communicate its value: to get buy in for it and prioritise it.  This conference will give you the learning, expertise, and strategies to help you do it well.

Please join us, at our collaborative and cross-cutting conference, and learn from informative keynotes, focussed case studies,  expert joint sessions, and practical pilots and spotlights.  Engage with peers, practitioners, and specialists, from schools and colleges, local education authorities, careers education providers, businesses supporting work placements, and ICPs.

Book early to avoid disappointment and take advantage of our early bird discount: we look forward to seeing you there.

Key Outcomes

  • Learn about the new Work Placements Guarantee. How can you find useful, practical work placements particularly given how time-consuming it is? Is it more challenging, given home-working patterns of employers post-Covid to find opportunities?
  • Hear how the changes to the Gatsby Benchmarks have impacted careers and destinations programmes; and learn from best practice.
  • Learn how to successfully provide meaningful encounters pupils throughout the school journey. Hear about techniques and tools for capturing pupil journeys.
  • Careers and destinations support could be never-ending: how do you put together a workable plan; and how do you measure its impact?
  • What about inclusion and equality: how does it work for SEND pupils, for example.
  • Social mobility: doesn’t work experience favour those with access to it?
  • How much time do you devote to careers and destinations; and what tools and techniques can you use to track it successfully in your school or college?
  • How do you encourage pupils and staff to prioritise careers and destinations?
  • How can you embed skills into the curriculum; and how do you track this?
  • What about apprenticeships versus university, and where does this sit?
  • Staffing for careers: who is responsible? If an academic staff member has careers within their remit, how do they balance their workload?
  • What constitutes good careers advice, and how do you track the results?
  • Learn about really useful techniques and skills: for example, 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.