Section 1 Getting started

• About this toolkit
• Step 1: identifying needs
• Step 2: obtaining LMI
• Step 3: interpreting LMI
• Step 4: presenting LMI
• Glossary of LMI terms and abbreviations
• Sources of information

Section 2 Practical tools

• Practical tools
• Four case studies on using LMI
  • Post-16 student adviser
  • Outreach adviser working with unemployed young people
  • Adult guidance worker
  • Trainer
• Checkpoints: identifying clients' needs
• Checkpoints: judging the quality of LMI
• Using local LMI in class
• LMI database: working with maths students
• A quick guide: making sense of LMI
• Guidelines: reading tables and charts
• Using local LMI: classroom careers education session
• Producing a regular LMI newsletter
• Careers adviser's LMI workshop for school staff
• Sample material: careers education in cross-curricular work
• Sample LMI leaflet 1
• Sample LMI leaflet 2
• Creating pie charts, bar charts and line graphs