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The Careers Impact System is a process that drives continuous improvement in the quality of careers education in schools and colleges.

It’s a systematic approach to raising standards, provides confidence in and an assurance of quality to the education policy community and is directly linked to wider school improvement. Internal leadership reviews take place in individual schools and colleges using a standard framework.

These are challenged and verified through peer-to-peer and expert review. National System Reviews offer independent system-wide insight and thought leadership, take a cross-cutting, thematic approach.

Chrysalis - an independent research agency – conducted the first National System Review in 43 schools and special schools in 2023/24 with above average Gatsby Benchmark performance. The review included visits to the setting and taking part in an online research forum. Documents were also reviewed. Our short summary gives the key points from the review.