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Mayston 2002
Citation Text:
Mayston, D. (2002), Assessing the Benefits of Careers Guidance. CeGS Occasional Paper, Derby: Centre for Guidance Studies, University of DerbyEditorial Comment:
Abstract:
Assessing, and optimising, the benefits of career guidance has become
increasingly important for a number of reasons. One is that the top-level
process of Comprehensive Spending Reviews, and Public Service
Agreements, through which HM Treasury funds public services increasingly
requires that the benefits which specific public services provide can be
quantified, in order to justify their funding. Another is that ensuring best
value in the management of public funds, and in the development of
evidence-based practice, requires evidence to exist on the extent to which
different forms of service provision do provide benefits to their recipients. A
third is that the setting of optimal quality standards for the provision of
career guidance by individual providers requires judgements to be made on
the levels of service quality which maximise its benefits net of costs. A
fourth is that the process of performance review, and monitoring the extent
to which individual service providers do achieve best value, requires
suitable quantitative performance indicators to be available that can reflect
the benefits which recipients derive from the service provided. This paper
examines the development of an analytical framework for assessing the
benefits of career guidance, including quality of life improvements and
wider social benefits, and associated information requirements.