Careers Hubs Provider Access Policy
Careers Hubs are an important part of the career’s educaon infrastructure for 11-18-year-olds in
England.
Run by the Careers and Enterprise Company – the naonal body for careers educaon - in
partnership with local organisaons, they are designed to:
• Bring together school and college careers leaders to share best pracce and work on shared
priories – creang communies of pracce where approaches and thinking constantly
evolve.
• Connect local employers to foster eecve partnerships with schools and colleges to provide
high quality future talent insights.
• Work strategically across an area with a range of stakeholders to align with local educaon,
work, and skills priories through strong partnerships.
• Demonstrate the impact of careers educaon on the career readiness, educaon, and
employment outcomes of young people.
Provider Access Statement (Further Educaon and Training Providers)
Careers Hubs are commied to:
• Amplifying technical and vocaonal routes so young people know about all the opons.
• Supporng eecve transions from educaon to work, further study, or training.
• Removing barriers for young people. Career Hubs priorise tackling disadvantage in
partnership with local employers.
The Gatsby Benchmarks and the ‘Provider Access Statement’ (historically the ‘Baker
Clause’)
Our work with schools and colleges is framed by the Gatsby Benchmarks – the naonal framework
for organising the careers provision of a school or college.
Details of the relevant expectaons are listed below:
• Every student, whatever their ambions, should have the opportunity to explore what it is
like to learn at the full range of learning providers, including colleges, universies,
apprenceship and training providers, University Technical Colleges (UTCs) and Studio
Schools.
• Students should have the opportunity to hear directly from providers, so they can build up a
full picture of the opons available and consider how the opportunity to study or train in
dierent ways, and in dierent environments, might suit their skills, interests, and aptudes.
• Schools have a legal duty, commonly known as the ‘Baker Clause’, which requires all
maintained schools and academies to ensure that there is an opportunity for a range of
educaon and training providers to access all year 8 to 13 students for the purpose of
informing them about approved technical educaon qualicaons and apprenceships. We
make all schools aware of their responsibility to do so and support them in providing clear
guidance on provider access.
Providers wishing to work with Careers Hubs:
The Careers Hub does not have the power to enforce provider access into schools and colleges,
however we are commied to using our network to support high quality careers provision for young
people.
The Careers Hub will therefore:
• Liaise with providers to discuss their provision and oer to schools and colleges.
• Consider ways in which the provider and Careers Hub can work together to address gaps.
• Broker introducons to relevant Careers Leaders (where appropriate).
• Where possible include providers in a local directory (if one is available) of vocaonal
provision which is shared with schools.
• Advise school leaders in a Hub about the implementaon of the Baker Clause.
• Deploy Enterprise Coordinators and Enterprise Advisers to support schools and colleges to
develop partnerships and programmes which allow students to explore all pathways.
For addional informaon, please contact the New Anglia Careers Hub team on
careershub@newanglia.co.uk or email David Ladbrook (Careers Hub Strategic Lead) at
David.Ladbrook@newanglia.co.uk
