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Welcome to Careers England

Careers England is the trade association for employer organisations involved in the provision of products and services promoting careers education and guidance in England. As the only association of specialist career guidance businesses in the country, we exist to promote the benefits to the nation of utilising the distinctive skills of such organisations. The products and services that our Members provide promote social mobility, achievement and economic well-being for people of all ages.

We are the informed employer voice of careers guidance businesses in England. From this perspective, our strategic direction majors upon advocacy of the economic and social benefits of careers information, advice and guidance to the health of the country, together with the need for an effective strategic framework for careers advice and guidance provision for people of all ages across England.

These are changing and challenging times for everyone involved in publicly-funded careers advice and guidance services. We have (until the cutbacks made in 2011 to Connexions) been providing publicly-funded career-related services to young people and/or adults in more than two-thirds of England’s 153 Local Authority areas (those LA areas which include responsibility for Children’s and Young People’s services, formerly described as Local Education Authority areas); these cutbacks are having a serious impact upon the availability of careers advisory services for young people today.

We work with central and local government, with others involved in the planning and procurement of careers information, advice and guidance services, with policy advisers and with strategic bodies to seek to influence policy details and their implementation. We do so in order to achieve the strategic investment and the policy framework that is essential to the provision of effective advice and guidance services throughout working life.

Our major priorities today are working with the Coalition Government on its plans to establish an all-age careers service for England, as well as seeking to influence the Government's implementation of the future arrangements concerning the provision of "independent and impartial careers advice and guidance" for all School students in England (as set out in the 2011 Education Act). We are concerned to ensure that the National Careers Service (as the all-age service is now to be styled once it goes live on 1.4.2012), and the arrangements under which schools will be required to 'secure' careers advice and guidance for their pupils and students throughout the 13-19 phase, can come together to form a coherent all-age strategy for careers support for everyone across England. Hence we are concentrating our national activities on these crucial issues.

Whilst we believe there is a strong base on which to build the partnerships that will help us to achieve the vision of a world class, all-age guidance system in England, there is important and urgent work to do if this is to be achieved under the new duties on schools from September 2012 arising arising out of the Education Act and in the context of the cutbacks to Connexions which Local Authorities will no longer be required to provide after 31.3.2012. In this website there are a number of papers relating to these matters to be found in the "Board, Business Plans and Strategy" sections (many postings are public, some only for Members). Details about joining Careers England are set out in the "Membership" section.

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