Compass+

Completing your Compass+ Self-evaluation

To support you with completing your termly Compass+ self-evaluation, we have created guidance documents with up-to-date information, resources and key considerations to help you complete your evaluation with confidence.

• Compass Evaluation Questions and associated guidance

You can also source additional guidance below using the following resources:

• How to update your evaluation on Compass+
• New Admin User Guide for Compass+ – How to overcome issues with accessing Compass+ if you are a new Careers Leader

Compass+

Use Compass+ to benchmark, manage, track and report on your institution’s careers provision at individual learner level. It’s available to most secondary schools, special schools, sixth forms and alternative provision in England.

• Institutions eligible for Compass+
• Find out more about Compass+
• Getting Started with Compass+

Future Skills Questionnaire (FSQ)

The Future Skills Questionnaire (FSQ) is a tool to measure learners’ career-readiness. The FSQ covers key aspects of knowledge, skills and attitudes that are important for successful transitions.

The FSQ is embedded into Compass+, and allows you to effectively measure learners’ career-readiness. Simple data insight can support you to make targeted interventions, evaluate your careers programme and identify the impact of careers education in your setting.

Over 21,000 young people across the South Midlands completed the FSQ in 2025/26, giving those schools delivering it a fantastic insight into the career readiness of their students and the longer term impact of their careers programme. 

You can find supporting resources on using FSQ below:

• Implementation resources
• FSQ questions (PDF)

OnTrack+

OnTrack+ provides early insight within Compass+ to help schools and specialist settings recognise learners who may benefit from additional support. Supporting the achievement of Benchmark 3, institutions can target and tailor activity for at risk groups identified by OnTrack+.

You can find supporting resources on using OnTrack+ below:

• OnTrack+ Feature Guidance – Compass+ Help Centre
• OnTrack+ Practice Guide | CEC Resource Directory

Your Child’s Future

Your Child’s Future (YCF) enables education settings to strengthen parental engagement and use parent and carer insight to develop more informed, responsive and effective careers programmes that better support young people. 

YCF covers various topics, including how parents and carers feel talking to their child about careers, how much they know about the different options available for their child after school or college, and how much they understand about the careers programme at their child’s school, specialist setting or post 16 setting. 

You can find supporting resources on using YCF below:

• Your Child’s Future Resources | CEC Resource Directory
• Your Child’s Future – a questionnaire for parents and carers Help Centre articles – Compass+ Help Centre

Compass+ and FSQ webinars run regularly throughout the year, sign up here where you can also view recordings of past webinars.