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The Careers & Enterprise Company (CEC), the national body for careers education in England, published a report entitled, ‘Trends in Careers Education’ in December 2021. The report highlighted six key areas of progress including new evidence showing that improving careers provision leads to better outcomes for young people.

The key trends were:

• Careers education became more prominent in the curriculum last year
• Innovation helped young people to engage with employers despite the impact of the pandemic
• There was information about apprenticeships in the education system, but there is work to do to convert interest to uptake
• There was an increased focus on individuals and their context through personal guidance, links to the labour market and digital tools
• Training and local collaboration led to increased progress
• New evidence shows that improving careers provision leads to better outcomes for young people

The trends were identified from the findings of a national dataset of 3,893 secondary schools and colleges (78% of the all state-funded schools and colleges) and the careers programmes they delivered in the 2020/21 academic year. The results were compared with data from two years previously to see how careers education has changed since before the pandemic and reviewed alongside wider evidence published during the last year.