No-one likes to say “I told you so”, but the careers guidance situation in schools is particularly infuriating because everyone – except it seems government ministers – could see it coming.
Where to begin with this farce? Let’s be clear: Ofsted’s report this week into careers guidance provision – Going in the Right Direction? – is damning (see our coverage of the Ofsted careers report here). Many schools are failing to deliver effective, independent and impartial advice to pupils in years 8 to 11, as they are required to do by law.
There is no shirking from this fact, but this is by no means the whole story. Schools have been left up the proverbial creek by the government cuts which led to the closure of the excellent Connexions services around the country. Furthermore, ministers didn’t see fit to pass on any of the estimated £200 million in funding that services cost when they forced schools to take on the careers guidance duty in September 2012.
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