What's new in guidance practice, research and policy?

• A new Adult Advancement & Careers Service to be launched 2010 & occasional paper by Deirdre Hughes highlighting some key related issues.
• Counselling Arabia 2009 Conference, ‘Transitions: Evolutions of Client and Practitioner’, will focus on transitions in the field of counselling, from client progression to the development of the practitioner. For more information on the conference to be held in April 2009 go to the website.
• The Skills Commission published Inspiration and Aspiration: Realising our Potential in the 21st Century, which calls for fundamental changes to careers guidance.
• Recent announcements concerning the development of a new adult careers service include a speech to Parliament by John Denham on Welfare and Skills, 26 November 2007 and the publication of Opportunity, Employment and Progression: making skills work DWP/DUIS nov 2007
• Interested in developments in new qualifications (e.g. new 14 - 19 Diplomas): visit our linked site on Qualifications Developments.
• Publication of the New Quality Standards for IAG access them from the IAG section of the Every Child Matters website July 2007
• Publication of World Class Skills: Implementing the Leitch Review of Skills in England by DIUS , follows on from the Leitch review - 'Skills in the UK: the Long Term Challenge' - which recommends a new universal adult careers service.

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