Primary school teachers in deprived areas of England will receive training to deliver careers education programmes under a £2.6 million scheme.
The Department for Education has today expanded on a pledge in its schools white paper last year to create a new careers programme in primary schools. At present, most careers advice is focused on the secondary phase.
Ministers say the primary scheme, which will run until 2025, will support more than 600,000 pupils in over 2,200 primary schools – around one in seven of those nationally. It will be rolled out in the government’s 55 “education investment areas”.
