Parent Toolkit
A parents’ toolkit for career conversations
Talking futures is a resource to help you have good quality conversations with your child about the options available to them. To access the resource click here.
Information for Parents and Carers
Our smart start ‘Futures’ tutor programme provides career activities that are progressive and structured to support your child at every transition point and with their next steps. As a parent or carer, you can also support your child with their career journey.
What you can do?
- Talk to your child about their interests
- Ask them about their future aspirations
- Encourage them to do their own wider research, particularly when making decisions about options and post-16 destinations
- Explain what skills and qualities are and identify with their strengths and ways to develop
- Ask them about their action plans following personal guidance meetings- can you help them to achieve their goals?
- Log onto Unifrog as a parent and encourage them to use it regularly to update their skills audits and find out about future careers.
- Be mindful of changes in the Labour Market (LMI) and trends that may affect their future aspirations
- Find out more about post 16 options – do you know what T levels are? Consider Higher Apprenticeships as alternative to university.
- Know what ‘Redbrick’ Universities are and become familiar with UCAS points and what they mean.
Useful Websites:
- Unifrog – The universal destinations platform. This website helps students to compare every University course, apprenticeship and further education course and apply. Thers are useful tips on how to support your child. For joining instructions contact Miss Atkins [email protected].
- Careerpilot : Parent zone. Career pilot provides information to help you as a parents or carer to support your child in making the right decision about study and work. It also provides information for you as a parent/carer if you are looking to return to education Lifepilot : Helping adults into higher level study
- Careers advice – job profiles, information and resources | National Careers Service. Helps young people to make decisions about their careers at different stages.
- Find an apprenticeship – GOV.UK. This website guides you through the apprenticeship process.
- Find and Compare the Best University & Degree Courses – The Uni Guide. This also gives you the list of Redbrick Universities to be able to compare them.
- T Levels | The Next Level Qualification. A comprehensive guide to T levels and how they can take your future to the next level.
Other ways to stay informed:
- Visit our website and facebook page for up to date and current events
- Look out for text messages on the parent app/phones
- Look out for our termly newsletter to see what has been going on and future events such as post-16 carer evening where you can talk to colleges, sixth form, apprenticeship and training providers.
- Try our padlet which provides lots of career related information
- Contact us directly