Supporting careers advice at home

This section of our DSTC website is designed to support parent / carer conversations with your children about careers and next steps.

Talking to children at home about careers is important as it will help answer additional questions they may have, or support choices they need to make.

Youth Employment

https://www.youthemployment.org.uk/careers-advice-for-parents/

https://www.youthemployment.org.uk/how-to-start-a-conversation-with-your-child-about-careers/

Amazing Apprenticeships

https://www.amazingapprenticeships.com/resources/?type=parents-packs#top-of-page

Career Pilot

https://careerpilot.org.uk/parent-zone/choices-at-14

NI Direct

https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/helping-young-people-career-choices

UCAS - Post 16

https://www.ucas.com/further-education/post-16-finance-and-support/parents-and-carers

https://www.ucas.com/further-education/post-16-finance-and-support/supported-learning-and-send

UCAS - Post 18

https://www.ucas.com/undergraduate/applying-university/advice-parents-guardians-and-carers

Labour Market Information (LMI) - Dartford

LMI changes all the time. Accurate, relevant data is best accessed via your child's UNIFROG account, using the careers library

In addition, the Office of National Statistics publishes LMI data. The "Which skills are employers seeking in your area?" tool is especially useful for seeing which skills are in demand.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/articles/whichskillsareemployersseekinginyourarea/2024-11-05

Data for this took isn't always up to date, but can be useful for understanding LMI in a given area.