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pathways and options provided in two city-regions in
England.
OECD (2020) Teenagers' Career Aspirations and the Future
of Work - synthesis of PISA data over several PISA cycles.
Theme 6. The 'stressed' condition of FE
Sector
AoC (2021) College Catch-Up Funding and Remote
Education - survey of 80 FE colleges
Institute of Fiscal Studies (2020) 2020 annual report on
education spending in England - synthesis of data on
education spending per student across the life cycle.
Inclusion criteria for systematic review evidence on mitigations
The second stage examined the systematic review evidence on mitigations. To be included
the Study must be a systematic review. A Systematic review must have the key features of
a systematic review including an explicit search, search sources, inclusion criteria, and
quality assessment.
A study must be a systematic review of interventions. A Study is not included if the reports
are on prevalence, extent, characterisation of an issue. Where there was more than one
systematic review, the best available evidence was selected by making a judgment about
the:
a. most up to date systematic review. To avoid double counting individual studies
included in reviews as well as choosing the most up-to-date findings;
b. systematic review most relevant/ transferrable in terms of population, contexts and
topics;
c. systematic review or reviews that were most likely to have reliable findings based on a
quality assessment of the execution of the review.
In all, 25 reviews were identified that were most likely to have reliable findings based on a
quality assessment (see Table 2).
With regard to mitigations of harms, we searched for systematic reviews that aimed to
mitigate the harms we identified so far. These were wider than the focus on the UK and
COVID-related literature. We searched for systematic reviews in:
• Cochrane Collaboration
• Campbell collaboration
• NICE Guidelines
• DARE
• Centre for reviews and dissemination CRD, University of York
• Google Scholar and Google.
Table 2. Systematic review of mitigations
Harm theme Reviews on mitigations found
Theme 1. Vocational disruption - young
people, economic participation and
apprenticeships
Eyles, 2021
Donald and Tyler, 2019
Kluve et al., 2017