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.

answeredDepartment for Education

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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

  1. 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.

  2. 25 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 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 ...

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