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The CDI's responses to consultations and committees, plus policy briefings and letters related to career development.
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New Campaign - Promoting the Career Development Sector
The career development sector faces a number of challenges around perception and recognition. Our Valuing Career Development campaign sets out the main issues we need to tackle and the actions the CDI is taking to promote appreciation of the work career development professionals do.
Recruitment and retention campaign
There has been growing concern about the sustainability of the career development workforce, especially in England. This takes in the low rates of pay in government-funded careers provision (schools, colleges and NCS), but also the ageing careers workforce, the sense of feeling undervalued and the sector being under-invested in.
The CDI has an ongoing campaign to raise awareness of recruitment and retention issues across the profession and with policy-makers. This has encompassed a number of activities - from the #CDIBigListen and Careers England surveys that start to quantify the issue, to the talent pipeline webinar, speeches at conferences, input to letters to politicians and ongoing work on routes into and progressing within career development.
Read more about our Recruitment and Retention campaign.
CDI Urges Students to Seek Careers Advice on Results Day and in the Future
As students across England and Wales discover the results of two years of hard work, the Career Development Institute (CDI), the UK’s professional body for career development, seeks to reassure those young people who haven’t ...
CDI welcomes greater focus on careers support ahead of A Level results
Across the UK, thousands of A level, T Level and BTEC students are anxiously awaiting their results, which will be released next week. The CDI, the UK’s professional body for career development, says that it’s vital that thes...
CDI and Trotman Indigo Publishing announce publishing partnership
The partnership will leverage the strengths of both organisations to develop innovative resources that enhance career guidance practices and support professional development within the sector.
Exam results day 2023: Making the right choices
For A level and vocational results day 2023, the CDI encouraged young people to seek support from careers advisers to help make the right choice on their next step.
New Technical Education programme for careers advisers
The CDI announces it has been awarded funding by Gatsby for a three -year programme to raise the awareness and understanding of technical education pathways among careers advisers.
The AI and Chatbot Revolution
The CDI Ethics and Professional Standards Committee invited Deirdre Hughes to produce a set of guidelines designed to inform and support careers advisers and CDI member organisations in their work and ongoing consideration of...
House of Commons Education Select Committee Inquiry into careers education, information, advice and guidance (CEIAG)
This briefing paper analyses the House Of Commons Education Select Committee’s report on careers education, information, advice and guidance (CEIAG), published in June 2023, and considers the implications of its recommendatio...
Learning and skills for economic recovery, social cohesion and a more equal Britain (The Blunkett Report)
This paper analyses Lord Blunkett’s report for the Labour Party, Learning and skills for economic recovery, social cohesion and a more equal Britain and particularly focuses on the vision that it sets out for the career devel...
Summary of CDI response to the Commons Education Committee inquiry into CEIAG
In March 2022 the CDI responded to the call for evidence. Evidence responses have now been published by the Commons Education Committee
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