Giving evidence at a meeting of the House of Commons Education Select Committee, Anthony Barnes, professional adviser at the Quality in Careers Consortium, highlighted the need to address the experiences of disadvantaged students when designing career programmes.
“It’s a really important area we need to do more on,” he said.
“The more disadvantaged students that we want to help may have no experience of apprenticeship or higher education, or their school history may have been traumatic.”
Jo Sykes, director at Co-op Academy Trust, added: “One size does not fit all in careers, you cannot roll out a blanket career programme, you have to have layered provision, so those students who are disadvantaged might have multiple meetings with the career advisors…it’s all about meeting their needs.”
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