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Recommendation 5
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The Government should work with local authorities to improve the availability of ‘ready to work’...
Recommendation
The Government should work with local authorities to improve the availability of ‘ready to work’ programmes such as that provided by ThinkForward, to support young people from school until they are settled in work. A plan and timeline for the rollout of such programmes nationally should be developed once the plan for embedding vocational profiling in the school careers advice system has been completed, and should be published no later than the end of the first quarter of
Government Response
A response document is linked to this report, dated 3 June 2025. Response attribution to this recommendation has not been verified. Read the response document ↗