A glance at our front-page story about Connexions proves his case in point. Heads of Connexions services are bracing themselves to make cuts of up to 50 per cent following reductions in local authority spending. For more than one in 10 this will mean closing Connexions centres and, for a staggering 75 per cent, this will result in staff redundancies.
Quite how such cuts will help to radically improve standards of information, advice and guidance to young people, as the Conservatives pledged to do long before the election, is unclear. Now it looks likely that secondary school teachers will be asked to play a greater role in the delivery of careers advice and other youth professionals and parents will be expected to help fill in the gaps.
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