Whole-School Careers Education: Leveraging Careers Provision for School Improvement and Student Outcomes

In a careers landscape shaped by rising expectations, sharper accountability and evolving policy, schools and colleges are being told they must adopt a ‘whole-school approach’ to careers education - but are rarely shown how.This book is the missing manual. Clear, practical and rooted in real-school contexts, it shows how to design a genuinely embedded, whole-school careers strategy.At its core is the author’s DDIA framework - Direct, Deliver, Influence, Amplify - a powerful, evidence-informed model that defines who does what across leadership, curriculum, pastoral and support teams.By showing how to build institutional capacity rather than relying on just the careers leader, this guide helps careers education become everyone’s business. Drawing on diverse case studies from state, independent and SEND settings, this book equips schools and colleges to deliver high-impact careers provision, regardless of budget, starting point or structure. This book will help you:• Utilise careers provi