Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 19 March 2018 to Question 132470 on Engineering: Vocational Guidance, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Insight into Industry initiative for teachers; and whether he plans to expand the scheme.

The government’s careers strategy, published in December 2017, announced funding for a range of careers activities to help secondary schools make sure young people get the information, advice and guidance they need.

The strategy announced £4 million for at least 500 schools and colleges to train their own careers leaders. We will also provide £5 million to pilot 20 career hubs linking together schools, colleges and other local organisations to achieve the Gatsby benchmarks of good careers provision. This year, there will also be a new £5 million investment fund to help disadvantaged pupils to get the additional support they need to prepare for work, including opportunities for mentoring and guidance.

More information 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.

The Insight into Industry initiative is, and has always, been privately funded. While it does valuable work, the government is not considering funding the initiative.