Quality, Choice and Aspiration - The National Strategy for Information, Advice and Guidance, is now available.
Statutory Guidance: Impartial Careers Education - Guidance aimed at governing bodies and head teachers, local authorities and teachers-in-charge of Pupil Referral Units.
NEET Statistics - Quarterly Brief – Statistics released on the 19th November. The data presented covers England and is on an academic age basis.
Inquiry into young people in the NEET cohort - launched by The Children, Schools and Families Committee will address many issues relating to NEET young people. The deadline is 16 December 2009, click here for more information.
New Opportunities: fair chances for the future – Cross-government review of financial support for 16–18 year olds call for evidence.
Ofsted Annual Report - This Report presents evidence from inspection and regulatory visits undertaken between September 2008 and August 2009.
Government publishes Skills Investment Strategy - The Government has set out how it plans to invest in skills critical to the recovery and long-term success of the UK economy. View the
strategy here.
CWDC Safer recruitment resources - Guidance for the children and young people's workforce on safe recruitment practices, consistent with other safer recruitment guidance and training from DCSF.
The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act received Royal Assent on the 19th November. This has been the biggest overhaul of Apprenticeship legislation for 200 years. Read the full article.
Children, Schools and Families Bill - Queen's Speech can be viewed on the BBC website where there is an at-a-glance list of the bills outlined in the 2009 Queen's Speech programme. The bill itself can also be viewed online.
The High-Level Guide - The
November Draft has been made available by React. The aim of the Guide is to provide a local authority overview of duties, powers and commissioning arrangements, with focus from April 2010.
National Council for Educational Excellence: Progress Report – The report includes updates of progress made on the business, higher education, partnership, and parental engagement strand recommendations, and case studies of each strand.
Achieving Better Outcomes: Commissioning in Children’s Services - This document is designed to help leaders, commissioners, providers and communities involved in children’s services to develop an understanding of commissioning and the components that make it work.
Constructing the Future: Career Guidance for Changing Contexts – The first online edition of the biennial research journal of the Institute of Career Guidance.
Careers guidance and participation in education - Findings from the YELLIS dataset - This report looks at the responses to a number of questions about the careers guidance year 10/11 pupils have received over the last 12 years.
Towards Ambition 2020: skills, jobs, growth - The UK Commission for Education and Skills has just published its vision for the future employment and skills system.
The right choice: Involving children and young people in recruitment and selection - This guide aims to provide an overview of the process, consider why it is important to involve children and young people, and provide the basic information and techniques to do this.
A new report from the British Youth Council (BYC) and NCB has found that formal careers advice and guidance is failing young people during a time of rising unemployment.
Read more here.