Help to deliver your work experience priorities

At LifeSkills, we provide resources directly to educators to help develop work-based skills and behaviours with your students. These may be before they join a work experience placement or entering the world of work.

Our core offer provides access to high-quality virtual workplace experiences to support students in finding out about different industries and jobs with options available for a wide age range. 

This approach supports you with a multi-year, multi-experience model which is accessible to all learners and provides a tiered approach to activities. This can help you join activities together during a young person’s time at school.

Ambition from the government in England is to deliver two weeks’ worth of work experience for every young person. In Scottish schools, the statutory expectations for work experience are guided by the Work Placements Standard developed by Education Scotland and emphasises a flexible, learner-centred approach. In Wales and Northern Ireland, while not mandated as a fixed-duration placement, work experience is strongly encouraged as part of the frameworks for Careers and Work-related Experiences (CWRE) and Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance (CEIAG) respectively. 

Schools are required to prepare and introduce multiple, meaningful and varied experiences to all young people, in line with Gatsby Benchmark 6.

With a greater emphasis on the importance of progressive, meaningful and varied experiences, and the need to focus on the impact of encounters and experiences on young people, we also provide work experience logs - go to your dashboard to download or order printed work experience logs.

The Careers & Enterprise Company's modern work experience model Equalex helps educators, employers and providers to facilitate a variety of experiences for students.  In addition, the Compass+ tool from CEC can also help you benchmark, manage, track and report on your school's careers programme.

This page brings together all the options in one easy place. Designed to be used flexibly by you and your learners, these resources will help your students build on their knowledge, experience and preparedness for placements over time. 

We also have a work experience page for young people where they  can access our on-demand Online work experience programme through Springpod and the Virtual work experience tool directly.