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Discover trusted, high-quality resources, tools, support and guidance to help your school develop and embed meaningful career-related learning, broaden pupils' aspirations and horizons, and support positive outcomes for all children, whatever your starting point.

Career-related Learning

Career-related learning (CRL) in primary schools is about broadening pupils' horizons and aspirations, challenging stereotypes, and helping them develop the skills and sense of self that will enable them to reach their full potential.  

Every school starts from a different place. To support this journey, The Careers & Enterprise Company has developed the Educator Learner Journey: Primary career-related Learning. Whatever your starting point, there is something for everyone. Each stage builds on the last, enabling you to start small and dream big.

Watch the video to explore why introducing career-related learning from an early age is so important, and how it can positively shape children's aspirations and understanding of the world of work.

Spotlight

  • Educator Learner Journey: primary career-related learning

    This learning journey is designed to support educators to build the awareness, understanding and confidence to strategically embed career-related learning (CRL) within the primary curriculum. 

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  • FREE Online Learning Courses

    Training designed to help key education stakeholders gain a clearer understanding of the careers education landscape and confidently contribute to delivering impactful careers education.

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  • Career-related learning outcomes and objectives for primary pupils

    This document sets out a suggested set of learning outcomes and objectives that could underpin career-related learning (CRL) provision in your setting.

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Latest Resources

Guidance
Case Studies

Be inspired by real examples of how schools are broadening horizons and embedding meaningful career-related learning across the whole school.

Careers Impact Maturity Model for Primary Schools: Supporting Guides

Explore our collection of guidance documents supporting Themes 1, 2 and 5 of the Careers Impact Maturity Model for Primary Schools. Covering strategic leadership, inclusion, impact evaluation, and meaningful encounters and experiences, these resources help schools strengthen and develop their career-related learning provision.

Lesson Materials
WEST: Women in Engineering, Science and Technology

Delivering careers resources to Primary Schools, we are a charity that works to broaden aspirations and challenge stereotypes related to non-traditional trades and careers.

Evaluation
Careers Impact Maturity Model for Primary Schools

The Careers Impact Maturity Model for Primary Schools provides a structure and a lens to support educational settings in evaluating and strengthening careers leadership and careers provision. It forms the basis of a Careers Impact internal leadership review which enables reflective, non‑judgemental dialogue, helping leaders connect careers to wider priorities, identify strengths, and plan sustainable next steps.