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Introduction
Welcome to AET's ‘Let’s Talk Futures’ - a one stop shop for parents / carers looking to support their children as they make important decisions about their future pathways.
As parents, carers and guardians, you are the biggest influencer of your young person's decisions about their next steps, their qualification choices, their place of study and ultimately their career choice. As parents it is not always easy to know where to find the latest information, what questions to ask or what advice to give. Hopefully this website, the supporting guides, resources and signposting to useful links will help you to support your child to make informed decisions and turn their aspirations into reality.
Guides
Below are a series of 5 digital guides. Simply click on each guide to access it. Each magazine style guide has been written by independent experts from ‘The Parent Guide To’ and contains the latest information about qualification types, post 16 options, universities and apprenticeships.
Do Together Tasks
We have created a series of short tasks and activities that you might like to use with your child when discussing careers at home. The resource is designed to help you instigate purposeful career conversations and includes things like key questions you might like to ask, discussion prompts you can use, short activities that you can set and links to resources and websites that you can explore together.
Do Together Task - KS3 - Y7, 8 & 9
Do Together Task - KS4- Y10 & 11
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This talk covers the following areas:
Welcome - The School Outreach Company - Maria Mason
Introduction - Home Building Skills Partnership - Tracey Hill
Opportunities in the Home Building Industry - Keep Moat - Mark Burley
Apprenticeships and Career Progression - Redrow - Clare Hindley
Careers Advice for Parents
Careers Advice for Parents
What does your child need to know in terms of education, training, and work?
What does your child need to know in terms of education, training, and work?
Explore your education and training choices.
Explore your education and training choices.
This website will allow you to see all the different Post 16 options that are available, what the different careers choices are and provide alternative pathways to your dream job.
Additional Sources of Support
Additional Sources of Support
Contact your schools Career Leader
Contact your schools Career Leader
Every school has a Careers Leader - the person who is responsible, not only for careers advice, but for the entire careers provision within school. Your school should always be your first point of contact for your queries. Your school knows your child best, have supported you for many years and will be very aware of all of the options available to you. The contact details of your school's career leader can be found on the careers section of your schools website.
Mr M Smith - msmith1@firthparkacademy.org
Access ‘Talking Futures’ National Resources for Parents
Access ‘Talking Futures’ National Resources for Parents
AET is supporting parental engagement in careers work at a national level. A series of useful resources for parents and for parents to use with their children can be found at:
Contact the National Careers Service
Contact the National Careers Service
Every AET School is committed to providing you with the highest quality careers provision and support possible. Please speak to your school’s careers leader if you want to speak to the school careers adviser. We appreciate however, that sometimes you may like additional independent advice from beyond your school and even beyond our AET family of schools.
If this is the case, we would remind you that all young people and their parents can contact the National Careers Service and can speak to an independent careers adviser by phone, text, email or webchat.
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