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<p>The department does not hold the number of schools that use the Gatsby Benchmarks.
However, The Careers & Enterprise Company’s ‘State of the Nation’ report (attached)
highlighted the results of over 500 schools that self-evaluated their careers provision
against the Gatsby Benchmarks. Around half of these schools were achieving at least
two of the eight benchmarks, although a fifth of schools were not achieving any of
the benchmarks.</p><p>The government published the attached ‘Careers Strategy: making
the most of everyone’s skills and talents’ on 4 December 2017. As we set out in the
strategy, schools and colleges will continue to be responsible for making sure that
their students can access independent careers guidance. We will use the eight benchmarks
of good careers guidance, developed by The Gatsby Charitable Foundation, to set a
standard of excellence for schools and colleges to follow. To support this, we have
asked The Careers & Enterprise Company to take on a more ambitious role by coordinating
support for schools and colleges across all the Gatsby Benchmarks.</p><p>The careers
strategy and our updated statutory guidance for schools both promote Compass, a free
online tool for schools to evaluate and monitor improvements in their careers provision
against the benchmarks.</p>
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