The Careers & Enterprise Company has announced the first wave of organisations to benefit from a £2.5m investment fund to support personal guidance in schools and colleges. The Personal Guidance Fund invests in projects that deliver innovative models of personal careers guidance to clusters of schools and colleges. With a focus on the training of careers development professionals, the fund aims to explore the effectiveness of different approaches to career guidance, and how they can be scaled up and integrated across the education system. Further details and information about the funded programmes can be seen here.
Applications for the second wave of funding are open now until the end of November. Guidance on the funding is available on the Careers & Enterprise Company website.