Check out the following:
Opening doors, breaking barriers: a strategy for social mobility
Update on the government’s social mobility strategy describing progress since since April 2011.
May 2012
UK Commission for Employment and Skills guide using practical examples to show how organisations are using career development activities to realise considerable business benefits.
May 2012
Lost in transition? The changing labour market and young people not in employment, education or training. Work Foundation report which considers how the changing economy and the changing characteristics of young people in the labour market have influenced those who are lost in transition.
May 2012
Update from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills with an overview of employer involvement in career guidance, and using and sharing career-related labour market information.
Tackling unemployment and supporting careers
UK Commission for Employment and Skills report discussing the role of career guidance in mediating between job seekers and employers to allow both to achieve their objectives.
May 2012
From September, the Education Act 2011 will place schools under a duty to secure access to independent and impartial careers guidance for pupils in years 9-11. The purpose of this consultation is to gather views on whether the new duty should be extended down to pupils in year 8 and upwards to young people up to the age of 18 studying in schools, sixth form colleges and further education institutions. Subject to this consultation and to the parliamentary process, the government aims to amend the age range by regulations from September 2013.
May 2012
Careers England Policy Commentary 15B
The coalition’s emerging policies on career guidance. This is a further revised version of Policy Commentary 15, originally published in April 2011.
May 2012