Ofsted to review careers guidance across all phases of education

Ofsted has launched a year-long review of careers guidance in mainstream and specialist settings, colleges, and skills providers. The aim is to produce a thematic review with recommendations to support and improve practice to be published next autumn. The review will look at the quality and the steps taken to fulfil the statutory duties across the sector including engagement with local employers, careers network involvement and ensuring their careers education contributes to local and national skills needs.

The review will encompass the current inspection evidence around careers education and carry out new visits to a sample of schools, colleges and providers in spring and summer next year. There will also be a Parliamentary education select committee enquiry into the effectiveness of careers advice given to students with the chief executive of the Careers and Enterprise Company, a government funded quango, giving evidence alongside Roger Cotes, director of careers at the Department for Education.