Speaking at a youth "question time" event organised by Young People Now and Kingston & Wimbledon YMCA, Hodge said a third-term Labour government would "build on" Connexions' successes but admitted that its careers advice element did not work very well.
Fellow panellist, shadow youth minister Charles Hendry, said: "It was your government that set Connexions up and you were the minister who set it up. For those young people who have been let down in recent years, could you offer them an apology?" Hodge replied that "careers advice has never been great - not in my time, your time or anyone's time" and accused Hendry of making "cheap political points".
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