Schools and further education colleges in England are required to provide impartial careers guidance to their students.
The quality of this advice has come in for frequent criticism despite government reforms aimed at improving quality such as the establishment of the National Careers Service and Careers and Enterprise Company.
This month, the Commons' sub-committee on education, skills and the economy hit out at an "unacceptable" lack of action on the part of government, including the failure to produce a long-promised careers strategy.
Earlier this year the committee published a report that made several key recommendations including the introduction of a specific Ofsted judgment for careers guidance with schools unable to be rated "outstanding" overall if their careers provision was judged "requires improvement" or worse and unable to be rated "good" if careers guidance was "inadequate".
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