Those backing Milburn's castigation of Connexions are confronted by those leaping to its defence. Few of these, however, have celebrated the service for its own intrinsic strengths.
Others have explained some of its deficiencies through the inappropriate narrow focus on young people not in education, employment or training, or the wider context of young people's lives that can appear to render advice and support for the most disadvantaged relatively ineffective.
Those joining Milburn on the offensive have one singular criticism: Connexions was never adequately prepared to provide the youth support that was envisaged.
The terrain for Milburn's attack was, of course, prepared around the time of the Youth Matters green paper, when greater scope for choice about the delivery of information, advice and guidance was returned to local authorities.
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