Ministers should trial direct funding of careers advisers amid fears asking schools to foot the bill is leading to “significant disparities” in provision, MPs have said.
Schools should also be made to publish information on the amount of time that leaders in charge of careers provision are able to devote to their role, a report by the Parliamentary education committee recommended.
Although “many changes” to careers advice and guidance over the past decade mean the “right framework is broadly in place”, the report warned of a “lack of a clear overarching strategy and stated outcomes”.
Progress towards meeting the Gatsby Foundation’s eight benchmarks for good careers advice, which all schools are expected to work towards, has been “slow”, with schools and colleges “only meeting just over half of them on average”.
