Adult Guidance

ICG Adult Guidance Committee
2009 been a year of significant developments in adult guidance in all four home countries. There has been a review of all-age provision in Wales and changes to the way the services are delivered in Scotland and Northern Ireland. In England the government remains committed to launching a new Adult Careers and Advancement Service in August 2010. ICG has been actively involved in consultation on the design features of 'this new universal careers service' as referred to in the Leitch Report. The service will be offered to all those in and out of work and will also provide targeted support for those facing specific barriers to progress. It will be available by telephone, on line and face to face. There are a number of significant challenges which ICG is seeking to address including the place of career guidance within the service, the balance between universal and targeted services, quality measures including staff competence, CPD requirements and what the service will be called and marketed as. In June ICG ran a successful Adult Guidance conference, 'Career Guidance for Adults in the New Economy', in London with the participation of about seventy members from around the UK. The event was designed by practitioners from the committee and offered keynote inputs from Tony Watts and Adam Micklethwaite and a wide range of workshops. Based on his input, Tony was commissioned to produce an Occasional Paper for ICG on the lessons for the new service from Connexions and internationally. A further Adult Guidance conference is currently being planned for Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. Six members of the Adult Guidance Committee took up an invitation to the House of Commons to advise Conservative Party policy makers on issues around all-age guidance and in particular the guidance needs of adults in the recession. Andy Freeman Chair of ICG Adult Guidance Committee

Other topics Adult Guidance Community of Interest The committee has given initial consideration and the chair has contributed to the draft proposals of the working group. They are broadly supportive of widening active engagement of members especially by targeted use of ICG web based networking. Association of Career Professionals The adult group will invite a representative of the eighty new members to a place on the committee to encourage integration. ICG National Career Awards Members of the group shortlisted the adult guidance category awards. Click here for Committee documents including minutes.