(This workshop is for Schools)
New statutory guidance encourages schools to provide meaningful workplace experiences throughout Key Stage 3. This practical workshop for our Career Leaders and their colleagues will share examples from pilot schools, highlight effective approaches, and provide tools to support implementation.
From September 2026, schools are required to start reforming their work experience programme to meet the new statutory guidance.
You will explore some of the different approaches our schools have taken to achieving key stage 3 work experience places. You will hear what went well and what could be tweaked to improve the experience and scale up to help schools reform your work experience programme.
Leave with the confidence, ideas and resources to develop your school’s work experience programme.
Meet your facilitators
Peter Gaul
Peter was a Headteacher in Liverpool for ten years. He has worked in some of the most under-resourced communities in the country and is now CEO of Belonging Schools Ltd. He is working with the CEC and a number of Combined Authorities across the country on the national Equalex pilot for modern work experience.
He has delivered keynote presentations at many national conferences on inclusion, school improvement and careers education. Belonging Schools also offers coaching and mentoring services for leaders in schools, community organisations and the careers education sector.
He has a passion for equity and place-based change and is the chair of the Steering Group for Right to Succeed’s Cradle to Career Project in Bootle on Merseyside. His belief is that humane and inclusive school, civic and business leadership can drive the change society needs now more than ever.
Lauren Jackson
Lauren has over 20 years’ experience supporting young people through youth work, education, careers guidance, and employer engagement.
Her career has spanned roles in youth services, Further and Secondary Education, the National Citizen Service programme, and Higher Education.
Over the last year, Lauren has led 16 work experience pilot programmes with Cumbrian employers and schools, exploring innovative approaches to modern work experience that help prepare young people for the future and support the Government’s ambition for every young person to access two weeks of meaningful workplace experience.
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