The Coalition's Emerging Policies on Career Guidance
19 April 2011
This is the fifteenth Policy commentary produced by Professor Tony Watts for Careers England, the report is called 'The Coalition Emerging Policies on Career Guidance'.
The report concludes that there are many issues on which clarification is urgently needed. These include (but are not confined to):
- The DfE funding contribution to the new all-age NCS (paras.37-43).
- The structure of the all-age NCS, and the extent to which it is viewed as a strategic body (paras.28-31, 33-34).
- The organisational quality standard(s) to be applied to the all-age NCS, andalso to other providers within the market in career guidance provision (including suppliers from whom schools can purchase such services) (paras.21, 31-32, 35).
- The proposed new kite-mark and other quality arrangements to encourage and help schools to develop high-quality careers programmes (paras.23-24).
- How the data for the proposed destinations measure in schools are to be collected; how 'added value' is to be demonstrated; and what other accountability measures and procedures are to be introduced alongside it.
- The role of and relationships between current consultative mechanisms on the emerging policies (paras.47-48).
