Source · Select Committees · Education Committee
Recommendation 42
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Deferred
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Develop and advertise CEIAG support for young people outside mainstream education.
Conclusion
The Department must develop a system of support for young people outside of mainstream education to access CEIAG, either through improvements to the National Careers Service or through the Careers and Enterprise Company. This should be clearly advertised and proactively targeted to ensure that young people and their families are aware of and able to access the support.
Government Response Summary
The government agrees more needs to be done but defers concrete action, stating it will consider evaluation findings from a pilot and discuss with the sector before determining mechanisms, with further detail to come in a Strategic Action Plan for Careers.
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149
Government Response
Deferred
HM Government
Deferred
160. The Department welcomes the Committee’s recommendation that more needs to be done to meet the careers support needs of young people outside of mainstream education. As the Committee has noted, in recent years the CEC has made good progress in supporting schools, colleges and special schools to improve the provision of careers education for the majority of young people. In addition, the National Careers Service provides support to young people over the age of 13 via its website, webchat and telephone helpline, allowing young people to speak to a professionally qualified careers adviser. 161. However, we agree with the Committee that more needs to be done to meet the needs of young people who are not learning in mainstream education settings. This includes, for example, young people who are home educated and young people who are NEET. The NEET cohort are often some of the most disadvantaged young people and careers support is an essential element of re-engagement. 162. We look forward to seeing the evaluation of CEC and Youth Employment UK’s pilot of additional support for young people outside mainstream education, as referenced in our response to recommendation 25. This will provide valuable insight and learning to shape future policy interventions for young people outside of mainstream education. We are committed to considering the best ways for this group of young people to access careers support and will discuss this with the sector before determining the best mechanism for delivering this. We will set out more detail about how we can better support young people outside of mainstream education in the Strategic Action Plan for Careers.