Question follow-through · 61781
Schools: Work Experience
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to reinstate two weeks of compulsory work experience in schools.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 23 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 25 Jun 2025 · 2 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to reinstate two weeks of compulsory work experience in schools.
25 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Jun 2025
Answer published
Earlier this year, we updated the careers statutory guidance reflecting the revised Gatsby Benchmarks of good careers guidance and included the new definition of meaningful workplace experiences to raise the quality of work experience.In this guidance we ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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