Statutory guidance

Careers guidance provision for young people in schools

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 25 March 2015
• Last updated: 12 April 2017, see all updates
• Applies to: England

Statutory guidance for schools on providing careers guidance and inspiration.

Documents

Careers guidance and inspiration for young people in schools

Ref: DFE-00111-2015 PDF, 334KB, 18 pages

Details

This statutory guidance is for:

• headteachers
• school staff
• local authorities that maintain pupil referral units

Statutory guidance is issued by law; you must follow it unless there is a good reason not to.

It applies to:

• local-authority-maintained schools
• community schools
• foundation or voluntary schools
• community or foundation special schools (other than those established in a hospital)
• academies and free schools
• pupil referral units (PRUs)

Document information

Published: 25 March 2015

Updated: 12 April 2017

+ full page history

1. 12 April 2017 Updated information about the new single national careers quality award (paragraph 67).
2. 25 March 2015 First published.

From: Department for Education