After all, there has been three years to prepare since the plans were unveiled in the 2005 Youth Matters green paper. Some councils have opted to contract out Connexions; many others have decided to bring it in-house and operate it either as a standalone service or merge it with the youth service.
Change is always difficult. As our special report demonstrates, this transition is particularly painful for the hundreds of workers that are losing their jobs (see p12). Most of these are administrative positions that local authorities already employ and don't want to duplicate. The bigger loss to young people will be any personal advisers exiting the scene with which they have formed a historical relationship and have acted, in Every Child Matters-speak, as their lead professional.
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