The single most useful thing you can do

Read the pathways. Not all fifty; ten of them, including at least three you would never have considered for your child.

You will find that the thing you thought was a lesser road employs more people than the road you had in mind, or that a course you had never heard of leads exactly where your child says they want to go. Most families make their decision from a menu of three or four options that everyone in the neighbourhood already knows. The menu is fifty.

Your child cannot widen that menu on their own. You can.