Analysis of year 11 pupils' destination data between 2016/17 and 2018/19 by the Careers and Enterprise Company (CEC) shows that each of the eight Gatsby Benchmarks a school achieves reduces the odds of a young person being NEET or in an “unknown destination” by 1.1 per cent.
The Gatsby Benchmarks, developed by the Gatsby Foundation and first published in 2014, are a set of eight standards for careers education covering issues such as advice and guidance, teaching about jobs and access to work experience opportunities.
The CEC analysis shows that the beneficial impact of achieving the benchmarks is roughly twice as strong for schools with the most economically disadvantaged pupils as measured by through the free school meals entitlement.
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