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<p>This government wants young people in all parts of the country to gain workplace
skills and to explore career opportunities. In 2024/25, the department is investing
approximately £30 million through The Careers and Enterprise Company to support secondary
schools and colleges to improve their careers programmes in line with the government’s
careers framework, the Gatsby Benchmarks of Good Career Guidance.</p><p> </p><p>92%
of secondary schools and colleges are part of a local Careers Hub that connects educators
to employers and apprenticeship providers to improve practice and target support to
local priorities. There are over 3,200 fully trained Careers Leaders who implement,
coordinate and quality assure careers programmes. Over 400 leading businesses and
4,000 business professionals from across all sectors help schools and colleges to
deliver high-quality careers education.</p><p> </p><p>Advice is also available to
young people digitally via the National Careers Service. The website helps young people,
aged 13 to 18, start discovering their careers options. It includes around 800 job
profiles. Young people can access information and advice via webchat and a telephone
helpline which is supported by local community-based career advisers. The National
Careers Service website can be found here: <a href="https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/"
target="_blank">https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/</a>.</p><p> </p><p>This is
supported by the Skills for Life campaign, ‘It all starts with skills’, which promotes
a range of priority skills programmes to young people, including apprenticeships,
T Levels and Higher Technical Qualifications. Bespoke support is also provided during
the exam results period. Get Help with Exam Results Careers Advice will be available
from 15 to 31 August.</p><p> </p><p>The government wants to go further to break down
barriers to opportunity and give all young people the best life chances. According
to a report from the Children’s Commissioner, more than 1 in 3 children report that
they do not know enough about good jobs available to them as they get older and leave
school.</p><p> </p><p>The department will open the doors to more employers by delivering
two weeks-worth of high-quality work experience. This year, the department is piloting
new approaches to workplace experiences that will benefit more than 25,000 young people
across the country. The three models being tested are virtual workplace experiences
for schools in coastal and rural communities; breaking down barriers to high quality
workplace experiences for disadvantaged young people; and targeted workplace experiences
focused on roles in future growth sectors.</p><p> </p><p>Young people need support
to capitalise on these workplace experiences, reflect on what they have learned and
set future career goals. The department will train 1,000 careers advisers so that
young people can get the expert advice they need.</p><p> </p><p>This government will
work closely with schools, colleges, employers and careers advisers to make sure all
of our young people can achieve and thrive.</p>
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