Tom Mursell

Yes you read it right, 7 year-olds are to receive career advice under new Gov’t proposals. You can just imagine it now; little 7 year-old Johnny updating his CV after sitting his Year 2 SATs! The report ‘Quality, Choice and Aspiration – A strategy for young people’s information, advice and guidance’ has flagged up the need for better careers information, advice & guidance (IAG) highlighting that it should be delivered within the Key Stage 2 curriculum. The reason? “…because decisions made at the point of transition from primary to secondary school can have a real impact on the direction young people take in their early years of secondary school”.

But should it really be delivered as young as 7?

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