Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what financial arrangements the Careers and Enterprise Company have made for the expansion of Enterprise Adviser Networks.

The Enterprise Adviser Network is expanding. Since its launch by The Careers and Enterprise Company in 2015, over 2,000 Enterprise Advisers have signed up to the network, and 1,700 of these are already working with schools and colleges to support their careers and enterprise provision. As part of the government’s careers strategy, all schools and colleges will have access to an Enterprise Adviser by the end of 2020.

Enterprise Advisers are senior volunteers from the world of work and are unpaid for this role. However, the department will be providing grant funding to The Careers and Enterprise Company to expand the Enterprise Adviser Network in line with the ambition in the strategy by, for example, recruiting and training volunteers from business.