Vocational Guidance: Finance

(asked on 22nd March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Careers Strategy: making the most of everyone’s skills and talents, published in December 2017, what plans his Department has for the future funding of careers hubs after the £5 million has been allocated.


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

The government’s careers strategy, published on 4 December 2017, sets out a long- term plan to build a careers system that will help young people and adults choose the career that is right for them.

The strategy provided £5 million of funding to test 20 career hubs linking together schools, colleges, universities and other local organisations. We are investing over £70 million on careers each year until 2020 to support young people and adults. Future investment on careers, as with all departmental expenditure, will be considered as part of the next Spending Review.

To target more support on those who need it most, the government has announced a further £5 million investment fund in 2018-2019. The fund will be split as follows:

  • £2.5 million of funding to help disadvantaged pupils to get the additional support they need to prepare for work, including opportunities for mentoring and guidance.

  • £2.5 million of funding to support the development of new innovative, cost effective models, for delivering personal careers guidance to schools and colleges.

More information about careers hubs and the investment fund can be found in The Careers & Enterprise Company’s implementation plan: https://www.careersandenterprise.co.uk/sites/default/files/uploaded/careers-enterprise-careers-strategy-implementation-plan.pdf.

Further information, including prospectuses inviting bids, will be published by The Careers & Enterprise Company in Spring 2018.

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