For the Government, careers guidance is a core part of Connexions' role. But for many of the service's 7,700 personal advisers, it is becoming sidelined.
A recent consultation with the 3,500 members of the Institute of Career Guidance revealed overwhelming concern among the personal advisers that make up the majority of its membership that their career guidance skills were being watered down and wasted within the Connexions service. Specialist careers workers are having to advise teenagers on everything from money to the complexities of sex and relationships, and feel they have to share their career guidance role with less experienced colleagues.
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