Support & career advice for home-educated students and their parents.

As a home educating parent or carer, you are constantly thinking about ways to talk to your child about their future career. You understand how they learn and what their interests are.

Having helpful conversations with your child about all the different training and educational next steps available to them will help your child to make informed and constructive decisions for their future.

But where do you start?

Select a tile below or navigate the main menu to access free tools, information and resources to help your child find their best next step in study and work.

Choosing a path

Start here to explore information and tools about your career options 

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Qualifications

Further education, qualifications and examinations

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Apprenticeships

Everything you need to know about becoming an apprentice

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Work experience

Information and resources about work experience and volunteering

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Get into business

Information and resources about setting up a business and becoming an entrepreneur

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Health & wellbeing

Information and resources to support children and young people with SEND

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How we can help

Home Education Futures has a variety of information available at your fingertips to help you to support your child to source out and consider the ‘what’s next’. This can be exciting but also daunting for both parent and child but with the right information and support available, we hope that we can make this a little bit easier.

Condensing information for home educating families across Swindon and Wiltshire, this site was designed and developed alongside other home educating families from around the region to enable you to pick and choose from each section to explore the ‘what’s right’ for your child.

We hope this site is a good starting point for having those important career conversations and explorations with your child.