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CEG in England

CEG in England. Career guidance straddles Education and Employment policies Within policy, career guidance can sit in Social Services (Welfare) or Economy Statutory provision in England relates to young people. A fretwork of polarities. National yet Local Universal yet Targeted

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CEG in England

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  1. CEG in England • Career guidance straddles Education and Employment policies • Within policy, career guidance can sit in Social Services (Welfare) or Economy • Statutory provision in England relates to young people

  2. A fretwork of polarities • National yet Local • Universal yet Targeted • Growth yet Efficiency • Change yet Stability • Remote yet Individual • Targets yet Personalisation

  3. Careers education in England • Statutory provision via LEAs • Technical Vocational Education Initiative • Extra resources for careers information and libraries (1990s) • Strengthened but outside National Curriculum • Further Education: costed and rewarded • Higher Education: each university is autonomous • Graduate Prospects: distance and online

  4. 1973 Statutory for Youth 1980s Youth unemployment 1990s Quasi Privatisation Re focussing – emergence of NEET New Labour and Social Inclusion Career Guidance: Youth

  5. Career Guidance: Adult • Manpower Services & Occupational Guidance units (1970s) • Training Enterprise Councils (1980s) • Vouchers for career guidance • European Social Fund, Single Regeneration Budget. • 2001 Learning & Skills Councils replace TECs • 2002 Jobcentre Plus – benefits and employment • Learndirect: UfI – info, advice and guidance

  6. YOUTH PROVISION Connexions Partnerships deliver services including career guidance for youth 16-19 under national brand name: Connexions Universal service with targeted support ADULT PROVISION Information Advice & Guidance Partnerships deliver career guidance for adults. National brand introduced in 2005: nextsteps Targeted support by qualification level From 2001 until 2005:

  7. Connexions: a joined-up service Social inclusion agenda drives policy Recognition of the NEET group Horizontal integration of interventions, limited to specific age A universal service, with targeted support Career guidance subsumed – more swallowed up than joined up

  8. Policy context • Every Child Matters (2003) • Skills White Paper (2005) • End to end review (2005) • Youth Green Paper (2005) • Realising the Potential FE (2005) • Women & Work Commission (2006) • Youth Matters: Next Steps (2006)

  9. End to end review (2005) • ‘Insufficient priority is given to CEG in many Connexions Partnerships, schools colleges, and work-based learning providers, in Ofsted inspections and in policy making’ • ‘the significant flaws in the current arrangements…mean that they are not sustainable’

  10. Youth Matters: Next Steps proposes • new funding arrangements via Childrens’ Trusts, schools and colleges; • clear minimum expectations for the IAG young people should receive; • a new set of quality standards, and • easy access to an innovative service using ICT

  11. Challenges Childrens’ Trusts to: • Ensure young people have things to do and places to go; • Encourage and support volunteering by young people; • Ensure those in particularly difficult get what they are entitled to and • Ensure young people can access high quality information, advice and guidance.

  12. Youth Matters: Next Steps • Recognises youth satisfaction with Connexions • Recognises strong brand but considers redefinition • Wants to reduce NEET numbers further • Will ease transition pre to post 16 education • Talks of reform of advice and guidance, including integration with other services • Refers to ‘guidance professionals’

  13. Policy possibilities • Develop an all age strategy for CEG, which moves from education towards economy; • Recognise the need for labour market intelligence,which makes sense of labour market information and challenges misconceptions; • Recognise that effective career guidance must be holistic, but must draw on a specialist knowledge base.

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