But this week's long-awaited information, advice and guidance (IAG) strategy states it will consider such action if services do not improve.
Its document, Quality, Choice and Aspiration: A Strategy for Young People's Information, Advice and Guidance, states: "Local services are now on notice to improve and if improvement is not forthcoming we will not hesitate to take further action." Local authorities' delivery of IAG will be reviewed formally in 18 months time, it states.
Milburn's recommendation came in this summer's report on social mobility, in which he slammed the quality of Connexions. However, the IAG strategy acknowledges many services are, according to Ofsted, delivering good advice, and says some schools' IAG provision "is not impartial or is simply dull and ineffective". It also states that transferring responsibility for careers advice now would disrupt efforts to integrate youth provision during a time of heightened turbulence, as councils prepare also to take responsibility for 16 to 19 funding.
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