Welcome to Local London Careers Hub East.
Local London’s Careers Hub work with mainstream and special schools, colleges and alternative education establishments, driving business engagement and continuously seeking to improve careers education, information, advice and guidance (CEIAG) for young people across the sub-region.
Our team is engaged with over 97% of all schools and colleges in in Barking and Dagenham, Bromley, Bexley, Enfield, Greenwich, Havering, Newham, Redbridge and Waltham Forest.
We are keen to work with all schools in our nine boroughs, and a diverse range of businesses from all sectors.
To work with us, please contact: careershub.east@redbridge.gov.uk
How we support careers education
Our Careers Hub team support mainstream and special education schools, colleges and pupil referral units (PRUs) to create high-quality careers education, assessed against national Gatsby Benchmarks.
The team support schools and colleges to achieve Gatsby Benchmarks by:
- Offering a menu of activities that will enhance schools’ and colleges’ careers education programmes. Discover some of our current opportunties.
- Matching schools, colleges and PRUs with volunteers from our growing network of dynamic volunteers from different work backgrounds, known as Enterprise Advisers, to help bring careers programmes to life. Find out more about Enterprise Advisers.
- Organising careers fairs to help young people understand broad range of options.
- Supporting teachers to understand career options for young people.
- Helping young people understand career options in sectors where there is a skills need locally.
- Working with partners including higher education, further education, professional providers and organisations across the sub-region to ensure all eligible schools and colleges receive on-going support to deliver a great careers education programme.
- Our Careers Hub offers a wide range of information and resources for careers leads and businesses to help take careers programmes to the next level.