The Career Development Institute (CDI), which represents careers guidance professionals, says measures in the Careers Strategy, published in December 2017, will fail to tackle disadvantages for many young people who have been excluded, are being home educated or are already in work-based training or apprenticeships.
The CDI says the strategy will fail to live up to its aim to improve careers advice for the most educationally disadvantaged groups of children because it only focuses on schools.
"One of the flaws of a school-based model of careers guidance is that it assumes all young people are in school," says a CDI statement, part of its response to the consultation on the strategy.
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