BURNLEY and Padiham MP Gordon Birtwistle has called for career advice to be introduced at an earlier stage in schools.

Mr Birtwistle wants school children to have access to dedicated career advice as soon as they are receiving a secondary education.

He said: “Children should be made aware of all of the options available to them as they grow-up and begin to explore potential careers.

“By introducing advisors into year seven classrooms, we hope to see the ambitions of young people realised.

“Sometimes information and support is all that is required to inspire an individual to venture down a certain path that they previously had little or no experience of.”