Provide apprenticeship careers talks or face legal action, schools told

Schools will be ordered to provide pupils with six “encounters” with further education and apprenticeship providers, or risk being hit with a legal direction from government.

The Department for Education has published a consultation, setting out more detail on how new legal careers advice requirements will be enforced.

The skills and post-16 education act 2022, which passed into law in April, creates a new legal duty for schools to provide pupils with “at least six encounters with a provider of approved technical education qualifications or apprenticeships”.