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All-age careers service: implications for widening access & participation Dr Deirdre Hughes Associate Fellow, Warwick Institute for Employment Research (IER) Immediate Past President, ICG

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Changes taking place in careers provision within and across the UK

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All-age careers service: implications for widening access & participation Dr Deirdre HughesAssociate Fellow, Warwick Institute for Employment Research (IER)

Immediate Past President, ICG

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Overview

• The changing landscape: careers delivery and services

• A new market economy: revolutionary v reactionary

• All-age careers service: rhetoric v reality• Fair access: challenges and opportunities • You decide!

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Do we all know where we are going with careers delivery and

services?

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Careers Services Transformation

• Smart growth – developing an economy based on knowledge and innovation

• Sustainable growth – promoting a more resource efficient, greener and more competitive economy

• Inclusive growth – fostering a highemployment economy delivering economic, social and territorial cohesion

Europe 2020 – the post Lisbon strategy

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Access to New Jobs New Futures

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Drivers and legislative changes

• The Government’s ‘Big Society’ vision - influencing the shape and formation of central and localised policies

• The Decentralisation and Localism Bill (2010)• Schools White Paper (2010) & new

Education Bill (2011)• Social Mobility Strategy – Opening Doors

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Shifting paradigms

From this… To this…

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Rethinking Public, Private and Third Sector services

• New arrangements• New partnerships• New markets• New players

Where does the all-age careers service fit into this new landscape?

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Differing formations

• Local Authorities ‘trading services’• Social Enterprises• Sole Traders• Co-funded community alliances• Mutuals• All-age Careers Service in 2012

Quality Assurance and the Consumer?

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R&R:3 main channels of integrated delivery

Careers Sector• Web portal(s)• Telephone support• Face-to-face• Profession & Service

Registration; CPD; Quality Standards

Public, Private, Voluntary & Community

Government• Low cost services• Timely & appropriate

interventions• Priority groups?• Tracking and

DestinationsEvidence

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Switching over to greater reliance on the Internet?

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993 4,1254002,129

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UK Careers Profession Alliance – ‘One voice

making an impact’

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A new all-age Careers Service

• 6 months on.........• Careers Summit...........• No 10 announcement........ response to youth

unemployment• Widening participation and fair

access......maximising the full range of options• Be vocal............it has to do exactly ‘what it says

on the tin!’

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“For you may palm upon us new for old:

All, as they say, that glitters, is not gold.”

Poet: John Dryden, 1687

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Thank you

Email: [email protected]

www.icg-uk.orgwww.speakers4schools.org/speakers/az/al

http://inspiringthefuture.org