careers policy and practice briefing 100511dmh
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Changes taking place in careers provision within and across the UKTRANSCRIPT
All-age careers service: implications for widening access & participation Dr Deirdre HughesAssociate Fellow, Warwick Institute for Employment Research (IER)
Immediate Past President, ICG
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!
Do we all know where we are going with careers delivery and
services?
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
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
Shifting paradigms
From this… To this…
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?
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?
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
Switching over to greater reliance on the Internet?
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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!’
“For you may palm upon us new for old:
All, as they say, that glitters, is not gold.”
Poet: John Dryden, 1687
Thank you
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