Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) careers advice and (a) guidance his Department has made available for pupils with SEND.
Secondary schools and colleges are responsible for making sure that all pupils, including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), receive high quality careers information, advice and guidance. We revised our statutory guidance for schools in January 2018 to make clear that schools should follow the Gatsby Charitable Foundation’s benchmarks of excellent careers provision. Our guidance includes advice for schools to help them make sure that all pupils, including those with SEND, are supported to fulfil their potential.
The government’s careers strategy contains a number of proposals to improve careers advice for pupils with SEND, including:
We will also be funding grants to establish good practice in innovative ways of working with young people with SEND and their parents, to inspire them to look at broader careers and further education options.