The education select committee will examine whether current careers advice provides young people with sufficient guidance about career choices, employment, training, and further and higher education opportunities.
It will also look at how arrangements for careers education, information, advice and guidance (CEIAG) could better support disadvantaged or left-behind groups to access career opportunities that may otherwise not be available to them, the committee has said.
MPs will examine proposals for CEIAG in the Government’s Skills for Jobs White Paper, and whether there is adequate funding to support effective CEIAG.
The paper, which aims to reform post-16 education and training, currently proposes that school pupils have just one careers meeting over three key year groups.
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