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The Careers and Enterprise Company in England has awarded two rounds of Grant Funding 2015 – 2017 to a wide range of careers programme providers, designed to ensure more young people have encounters with the world of work. This includes a table below setting out funding which has been awarded to organisations as part of the……

In 2011 Deirdre Hughes was consulted by the Scottish Government when they were developing the careers strategy   “Career Information, Advice and Guidance in Scotland – A Framework for Service Redesign and Improvement”. https://www2.gov.scot/Resource/Doc/344766/0114737.pdf The strategy drove the redesign and improvement of career services delivered by Skills Development Scotland (SDS).  The strategy made a clear commitment……

I visited Ottawa a few years ago to present key findings from the UK ‘LMI for All’ initiative to Deputy Ministers from across Canada. The meeting was organised by the Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRCD) and we also talked about international developments in career education, including emerging findings from quasi-experimental and experimental studies – https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/public/files/Publications/Careers_review.pdf……

The Welsh Government performs a key role in supporting the employability of people across Wales. https://gov.wales/docs/det/publications/171213-economic-action-plan-en.pdf https://gov.wales/topics/businessandeconomy/economic-action-plan/?lang=en “We will develop a new Employability Delivery Plan for Wales which will simplify the support offered to those people who want a job as well as those who need help to get a better job. Working with employers……

The BBC has today (7th December 2018) reported on findings by the Sutton Trust that Oxford and Cambridge are being accused of “being so socially exclusive that they recruit more students from eight top schools than almost 3,000 other English state schools put together.” The Sutton Trust study blames a lack of advice and guidance……