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Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance, like the
weather . . .
� Is forever changing
� Has seasons
� Is unpredictable� Is unpredictable
� Faces new phenomena
� Is difficult to forecast
� Has regional differences
� Has short and long term effects (on education)
Why this weather report?
� Labour Government
� National Curriculum Changes
� Connexions service
� Introduction of PSHEE
� New 14 – 19 agenda
� New diploma qualification
Evidence for this weather report
DfEE 2000 Careers Education in the new curriculum
DfEE 2000 School Improvement: How
careers work can help
DfEE 2000 establishing the Connexions DfEE 2000 establishing the Connexions
Service in schools
DfES 2003 Careers Education and Guidance
in England: A national framework 11 -19
DfES 2005 Report – End to End Review of
CEG
DCSF 2009 IAG Strategy
Key Reports affecting aspects of careers weather
� Final Report of the Panel on Fair Access to the Professions (July 2009)
� Lord Browne’s Report “Securing a � Lord Browne’s Report “Securing a Sustainable Future for Higher Education in the UK“ (October 2010)
� Professor Alison Wolf’s Report (March 2011)
Coalition Government“Freedom, fairness and responsibility”
� Freedoms(e.g. academies and free schools)
� Removal of statutory burdens� Removal of statutory burdens(e.g. SEF no longer required)
� School autonomy
� Reduced resources(e.g. cuts to local authority budgets)
The Gales of Change
Dept now called DfE
Spending cuts
� Removal of funding for CEIAG support programmesupport programme
� 14 -19 workforce support programme discontinued
� 24% cut in Area Based Grant –funded Connexions
� Qualifications and Curriculum Agency (QCA) closed
NEW All-Age Careers Service (2010)
Announced by John Hayes, November 2010
Impartial careers advice� Impartial careers advice
� Professional expertise
� Clear national standards
NEW Taskforce on the Careers Profession (2010)
Careers Profession Task Force report: 'Towards a Strong Careers Profession' (October 2010)
Recommendations designed to:
� Uphold professional standards
� Raise the status of career guidance
NEW Careers Profession Alliance (2011)
� 5 professional bodies
� Government wanted to consult with only ONE professional bodyonly ONE professional body
� Grown out of existing networks
NEW National Careers Service (2011)
� Joined up service for all age groups
� Young people and adults
� Independent careers advice
� Clear national standards
� Fully operational from April 2012
Major Climate Change
Storm clouds gathering
� Schools to pay for careers guidance from existing resourcesfrom existing resources
� Schools receive very mixed messages
� Who is there to decipher these for
teachers and students?
Education Act 2011: CEG
� Schools will have a new statutory duty to secure independent careers guidance for pupils in Years 9-11
� The statutory duty to teach careers education will be repealed
� Consultation on extending duty down to year 8 and up to years 12 and 13
The Future
� Decisions made by schools
� There will be a range of providers of careers guidance careers guidance
� LAs retain the statutory duty to provide careers IAG until 2012
� LAs retain the responsibility for support for more vulnerable
Statutory Guidance - Directive for Schools, Governing Bodies and LAs
� Due January 2012
� Schools accountable for successful � Schools accountable for successful progression of pupils
� Raising the Participation Age
� Pupil Premium
Statutory Guidance 2
� No expectation that LAs will provide universal careers service
� LAs retain duty to encourage, � LAs retain duty to encourage, enable or assist young people’s participation in education or training
� Information on all options
Careers Education
� Requirement for schools to provide a programme of careers education has been repealed
� However, pupils require careers � However, pupils require careers knowledge and skills to benefit from guidance
� Proposal for new framework for careers and work-related learning
Wider careers activities
First hand experience of further and higher education through:
� Visits
� Work experience� Work experience
� Work shadowing
� Talks
� Mentoring
� Master classes
Quality Standards
� Matrix revised Oct 2011 – for work with adults
Quality in Careers QiCS – under � Quality in Careers QiCS – under development with Careers England
Review of Initial Coalition Proposals
5 steps
1. Thematic review
2. Improved careers guidance2. Improved careers guidance
3. Publication of good practice
4. Awards
5. ‘Licence to practice’ consultation
Career guidance from 2012: schools doing it for themselves
� Employing a professionally qualified careers adviser
� Training a teacher or member of the non-teaching staff to provide the non-teaching staff to provide career guidance
� Giving the job to someone not qualified or trained
Career guidance from 2012:local authority approaches
� providing a traded career guidance service
� working with schools to seeking a managed transition to a preferred managed transition to a preferred (existing) supplier
� providing a list of approved suppliers
� stepping back to allow a completely free market
Career guidance from 2012: schools buying in career guidance
� from the LA
� from a career guidance company (including NCS providers)
� from a sole trader/individual CA� from a sole trader/individual CA
� from a social enterprise formed by several CAs
� from an EBP
� from an FE college
as an individual school or as a consortium
Students’ CEG support needs
Information
� on post-13/14 (KS4) options, post-16 � on post-13/14 (KS4) options, post-16 options, post-17 and post-18 options
� on progression routes
� comprehensive, up to date, accessible
Students’ CEG support needs 2
Guidance
� linked to tutoring and mentoring
� effective recording and referral
� impartial� impartial(based on the needs of the learner, not the institution
Careers Education
� how to use information and guidance
Where do universities fit in?
� Communication
� Networking
� Visits
� Work experience
� Mentoring
� Websites
� Curriculum activities� Work experience
� Work shadowing
� Internships
� Master classes
activities
� Off timetable days
� Labour market
� Employability