Less of a blog post and more of a list really today; just hit me how significant certain events this week have been, allbeit to my world of CEIAG.
Firstly, picking up on Stella Creasy MP's tweets last night, I became aware of the really disapointing news for careers professionals that, quite frankly, they may as well not be...er, professional. All Tory and LibDem MP's voted in favour of the careers 'profession' not actually needing to be professionally qualified to deliver CEIAG in schools.
I must say that if I was a practicing member of the Institute of Career Guidance or ACEG, I would feel that my organisation had let me down badly; what is your purpose if not to focus on the professional support and protection of your members? Failed.
Talk about grabbing defeat from the jaws of victory - the AACS (All Age Career Service) looks to be confined to a JobCentrePlus where an unqualified careers 'agent' will sort you out some training, an appfrenticeship or, fancy a bit of careers advice?
Secondly, with the axing of Connexions services Nationally (to the point of certain 'death'), the EBP's (Education Business Partnerships) were heralded as the new broker between LA's, schools and employers - well guess what? As of 31st March, for those of you reading today that means..tomorrow, £25m cuts are about to wipe the EBP's out as well. Smart.
Now the third point, and the icing on the rotten cake: with careers in school not coming under the view of Ofsted , careers advisers not having to be relevantly qualified to deliver CEIAG, schools not having Connexions to help with WEX (Work Experience) and schools being made responsible for their own budget spend in CEIAG - there can be only 1 outcome, and that is Generation Zzzzzzz
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