Special Educational Needs: Vocational Guidance

(asked on 22nd March 2018) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Anne Milton Portrait
Anne Milton
This question was answered on 27th March 2018

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:

  • A good practice guide for schools and colleges by The Careers & Enterprise Company and the Gatsby Foundation.
  • Training for Enterprise Advisers (senior volunteers from business who support schools with their careers programme) so they are confident helping people with SEND.
  • Funding for the Education and Training Foundation to provide professional development for practitioners working with young people with SEND.

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.

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