Explainer: How Unifrog helps you deliver Modern Work Experience, the two-week guarantee, and Equalex

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Unifrog helps with both delivering modern WEX while fully meeting the Equalex framework, and recording and evidencing what your school has delivered for students. Here's how!
 

WHAT IS ‘MODERN WORK EXPERIENCE'?

The term ‘modern work experience’ comes from the UK's 2025 Statutory Guidance for work experience. Modern work experience is made up of three elements: 
 

1. Equalex framework

The Careers & Enterprise Company’s framework for designing and delivering whole-school, high quality, modern work experience activities.

2. Two-week guarantee

Every child should have:

• One week work experience activities in years 7-9
• One week work experience placement in years 10-11

3. Gatsby Benchmark 6 (or ‘meaningful’ experiences)

The quality standard for workplace experiences, for example: they should involve two-way interaction between a young person and an employer.
 

Find out more about what Modern work experience involves in our guide to Modern work experience for teachers.

HOW DOES UNIFROG HELP SCHOOLS DELIVER THE REQUIREMENTS?
 

Here are the main parts of the platform that help you deliver the requirements:

• The Careers Year Plan is a comprehensive lesson pack for every year group, mapped against the Equalex learning objectives. Find it on the start page of the Resources library, and learn more about it in our Careers Year Plan FAQs.
   
• The Placements tool efficiently collates the necessary information and permissions to do with health and safety, risk assessments, insurance, safeguarding, and GDPR compliance, making it easy to coordinate in-person and virtual placements. The Placements contacts database is the biggest database of employers who are up for hosting students on in-person and virtual work experience, and it comes as part of the Placements tool. Find out more about the tool in our Placements FAQs.
   
• Virtual experiences of work directly on Unifrog
   
  • Live virtual work experience through our annual Virtual WEX week. Find out more in our VWEX FAQs. 
    
    To see which of your students have signed up to VWEX events, go to the Advanced view of the Manage page and sort by ‘Event sign-ups’.
     
  • Live career experience days throughout the academic year. These are structured virtual workplace experience days you can run at your school, combining employer interaction, workplace tasks, feedback, and reflection through webinars and ‘Careers in…’ courses (on the student Courses tool). Find out more in our guide on live career experience days.
     
  • On demand virtual experiences of work on the Courses tool. All the VWEX courses include automated written feedback developed with employers, as well as employer-led feedback delivered through the webinars.
    
    Students can find these by using the VWEX filter on the Courses tool. To see which of your students have completed VWEX courses, go to the Advanced view of the Manage page and sort by ‘Courses’.
     
• Teaching resources aligned with the Equalex framework
   
  • Career of the month resources
    A teaching resource to help students learn more about careers, sectors, and workplaces, featuring videos of employees discussing their day-to-day life and pathway into their profession. Find the Career and subject of the month resources in the Resources library.
     
  • Visitor talk – employer encounter 
    A teaching resource to help you run an engaging visitor talk, aligned with the Equalex framework. Find the Visitor talk resource in the Resources library.
     
  • Skills teaching resources
    A series of teaching resources to help students develop workplace skills. Find the Skills series in the Resources library.
     
• Unifrog tools and content that inspire students about the possibilities that are open to them, and help them reflect on their own interests and understand economic growth areas:
   
  • Psychometric quizzes
  • Interactive LMI widgets on the start pages of our Subjects library and Careers library
  • Hundreds of career profiles in the Careers library, and subject profiles in the Subjects library
  • Skills tool for students to record their skills, and Know-how guides on every workplace skill.

Here’s an example of how you could use Unifrog to meet the two week work experience guarantee:
 

For a closer look, download our handout on Unifrog's meaningful workplace experience resources and tools.

HOW DOES UNIFROG HELP SCHOOLS RECORD WHAT THEY'VE DELIVERED?
 

• RECORDING HOURS
  
  Students in all year groups record their Experiences of work in the Activities tool, while teachers record experiences of work provided for their students in the Interactions tool. In both cases there is a field for Estimated total hours.
  
  When students have organised work experience placements using the Unifrog Placements tool, teachers can bulk convert these to interactions (with all the right data points automatically completed, including the estimated hours).
  
  Pro tip: Experiences of work are activities and interactions where Learning = World of Work and Who's involved = Employer
   
• TEACHERS VIEWING HOURS
   
  • For an individual student
    
    Teachers see a student's activities and interactions together in the ‘Interactions + Activities’ tab in the Recording section of a student's profile. The total hours of experiences of work are counted across activities and interactions.
     
  • For multiple students at a time
    
    There is an ‘Experiences of work hours’ sorting option in the Advanced view of the Manage page that shows all the experiences of work for each student, across activities and interactions, and it includes the total hours of Experiences of work.
    
    Pro tip: Both on a student's profile, and on the ‘Experiences of work hours’ sort on the Advanced view of Manage, teachers can easily see: 
    • For interactions: which students have yet to confirm attendance and give feedback
    • For placements converted into interactions: when estimated hours do not match the hours recorded int placements that have a Logbook. This is also flagged on the placement itself before it has been converted to an interaction, after the end date.
       
  • Charts showing experiences of work
    
    Teachers can see a visual representation of the Experiences of work recorded for multiple students using Charts. Here are the two most relevant charts, and in both cases teachers can filter for Learning = World of work, and Who's involved = Employer:
    • Students with interactions and activities by Year group: % students who've got interactions and activities logged
    • Interactions and activities by Year group: # interactions and activities logged for/by students
       
• RECORDING AND TRACKING OUTCOMES
   
  • The Placements tool makes it easy for Placement coordinators to assign learning goals for each placement, and the tool matches the language of the Equalex learning objectives.
     
  • The Work Experience Journal is a workbook for students to use before, during, and after full work placements. There is a shorter journal for a range of experiences, and a longer journal designed for a full placement in a workplace. The journal guides students through tracking skill development and planning next steps.
     
  • The Placements, Activities, and Interactions tools encourage students to reflect on what they have learnt through doing the activities in question.