Almost one in five schools are meeting all eight “benchmarks” for good careers advice – but most are still missing the government targets.
And poorer pupils and girls still lag behind their peers when it comes to career readiness.
Figures published by the Careers and Enterprise Company (CEC) shows the proportion of secondary schools and colleges meeting the Gatsby benchmarks leapt by 52 per cent last year.
The study involved insight from 4,500 secondary schools and colleges.
