Source · Select Committees · Education Committee
Recommendation 12
12
Accepted
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Bring existing CEIAG delivery bodies under a single strategic umbrella, ensuring full alignment.
Recommendation
The Department should follow the recommendation set by Professor Sir John Holman to bring the existing delivery bodies under a single strategic umbrella function, sharing a common strategic framework and coordinating local services. We ask the Minister to update us on his planned reforms in this area and provide us with a timeline for implementing them. We recommend that these should go further than simply bringing together websites: the Department should take an in-depth look at the governance and functions of the different bodies to ensure that their work is fully aligned and that any areas of overlap are addressed, coordinating with other Government Departments such as the Department for Work and Pensions.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government accepts the recommendation, committing to developing a single, unified all-age careers system, starting with a new digital platform by autumn 2023. Further details and a timeline for reforms will be published in a Strategic Action Plan for Careers in 2024.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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82. The Department agrees with the Committee and Professor Sir John Holman that we have more to do to bring greater coherence between publicly funded careers services, across all ages. Our ambition is to develop an all-age careers system, unified under a single strategic framework, that helps to address the fragmentation in careers services identified by the Committee. We do not have firm views yet on what this will look like but we want to start exploring the issue further. We want to engage extensively with stakeholders to inform how services and support are best delivered in the longer term, including improving careers provision for young people who are not receiving careers guidance via their education. We are therefore planning to undertake some stakeholder and early market engagement, beginning in autumn 2023, to inform our future approach to ensure a coherent and deliverable all-age careers system which provides world class support.
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