Schools and colleges will be expected to report their progress against national careers advice benchmarks at least once a year, under plans to beef up statutory guidance.
The Department for Education has also announced plans for a new “strategic action plan for careers”, a single “digital front door” for young people to access guidance online and to eventually create an “all-age careers system, unified under a single strategic framework”.
But ministers have rejected calls for direct funding of careers advisers and extra “numerical targets” for the number of schools and colleges meeting the Gatsby Benchmarks of good careers guidance.
The Parliamentary education committee has published the government’s response to its report into careers advice and guidance in England. Chair Robin Walker welcomed ministers’ “broadly positive response”.
