I was not wholly shocked to read last week that when surveying 238 schools, the Institute of Career Guidance (ICG) discovered that one in three has no plans in place for delivering careers advice. I won't repeat my frustration about how important I believe good careers guidance is, but you can read my previous post on this topic for CYP Now here. What I would like to supplement my earlier feelings with, is that there has been clearly a woeful attempt from the government to invest in careers advice and guidance for young people and instead they have passed the burden, both responsibility wise and also financially, on to schools to deliver. While some schools will already have good practices in place or the capacity to support careers advice now, moving to this new model will leave, and has already left, a number of schools wondering what to do next.
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