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Careers Advice and Guidance – Key policy developments

6 mins read Education Careers Guidance
All secondary schools and colleges are under a duty to provide careers education, information, advice and guidance (CEIAG) to pupils from years 7 to 13, and to those aged up to 25 with an education, health and care plan (EHCP).
There are gaps in provision for home-educated pupils. Picture: gpointstudio/Adobe Stock
There are gaps in provision for home-educated pupils. Picture: gpointstudio/Adobe Stock

This applies to all maintained schools, academies, free schools, alternative provision settings, and further education and sixth form colleges.

The careers guidance should be impartial; include information on the range of education or training options; and promote the best interests of the students.

Schools and colleges receive support from the Careers and Enterprise Company (CEC) through local Careers Hubs, training programmes, and other resources. CEIAG provision is inspected by Ofsted.

The 2017 Careers Strategy included a number of measures to be implemented over three years to the end of 2020, including schools and colleges to use the Gatsby benchmarks – a set of eight good-practice standards – to improve careers provision, a named careers leader to be appointed to lead the programme in schools and colleges, the introduction of 20 Careers Hubs to be funded by government and supported by the CEC, secondary schools to offer encounters with employers each year, and to have access to an enterprise adviser.

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