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

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 for teachers.

HOW DOES UNIFROG HELP SCHOOLS 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 FAQs here.
   
• 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 Placements tool in our FAQs here.
   
• Virtual experiences of work directly on Unifrog
   
  • Live virtual work experience through Virtual WEX week (29 June - 3 July 2026)
    Find out more in our FAQs here.
     

  • On demand virtual experiences of work on the Courses tool
    Find these by using the VWEX filter on the Courses tool, and find out more about the tool here.

    All the VWEX courses include automated written feedback developed with employers, as well as employer-led feedback delivered through the webinars.
     

• Teaching resources to deliver meaningful experiences of work in school
   
  • ‘Careers of the month’ teaching resources
    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 this guide.
     
  • Visitor talk – employer encounter 
    A teaching resource to help you run an engaging visitor talk, aligned with the Equalex framework. Find it here in the Resources library.
     
  • Skills teaching resources
    A series of teaching resources to help students develop workplace skills. Find it here 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 can use Unifrog to meet the two week work experience guarantee.
 

Here are the elements of modern work experience that you can cover using our resources and tools (download it for a closer look).

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

• Recording and tracking hours
   
  • On Unifrog’s Activities tool, students in all year groups can record their experiences of work. On our Interactions tool, teachers record experiences of work provided for their students. Everything that has been recorded can be tracked via charts and dashboards.
     
  • When students have organised WEX using the Unifrog Placements tool, teachers can bulk convert these to interactions (with all the right data points automatically completed).
     
  • SOON: we will allow the recording of hours for activities and interactions, and create a view that combines relevant activities and interactions to keep track of total hours.
     
• 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 reflection 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 workbook can be found in the Resources library here.
     
  • The Placements, Activities, and Interactions tools encourage students to reflect on what they have learnt through doing the activities in question.