Empowering parents to support their children’s career choices

As part of our Careers Hub’s work to broaden the career choices of all young people in our sub-region, our team, in conjunction with the Hub’s Cornerstone Employers, are helping parents and carers understand more of the options available to their children.

On 24 April 2025, we held a ‘Future Focus’ event for parents and carers of students in Enfield. At the event, held at Enfield Grammar School, over 100 parents, carers and young people attended expert-led workshops and met with a wide range of employers, education, training and apprenticeship bodies to learn more about career pathways.

Forogh Rahmani, Director of Local London explained “It is really important that we empower parents and carers to support their children’s career choices. There are so many options these days that it can feel a bit overwhelming. Through events like this and our wider work we want to give parents and carers the information they need to help their children study for and take their next best steps into post-16 or 18 education or training.”

The programme of 20-minute workshops led by experts proved particularly popular, with over 90% of attendees taking part. The workshops covered:

• Supporting young people into the world of work, led by Framestore visual effect company.
• Supporting students with SEND into the world of work, led by West Lea School.
  Discovering apprenticeships, led by First Rung Training Ltd.
• Exploring vocational qualifications and T-Levels, led by Barnet and Southgate College.

I didn’t even know that was a career path

Attending the event to find out more about options for her child, Sam*, parent from Enfield, said “I loved the Young People in Print stand. I didn’t even know that was a career path. It’s definitely one I will look into more.”

Our team would like to thank our hosts, all the parents, carers and students who attended and all the brilliant businesses who supported the event, including:

• TfL
• Framestore
• Rooff
• Mears
• RAF
• Barnet and Southgate College
• First Rung
• West Lea School
• Taylor Woodrow
• Royal Veterinary College
• London Screen Academy
• Capel Manor College
• Vistry
• Young People in Print
• DWP
• ASK Apprenticeships
• HR Fit for Purpose
• Project Search
• North London NHS Foundation Trust
• Serco

Find out more

To find out more about future events contact careershub.east@redbridge.gov.uk

Or follow the team on Linkedin: @careershub-east