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Redundancies pending for Connexions Staff?
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Blog Entry | 2 replies1 resource | 18-March-2005 | Lucy Marris |
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The TES had an article headed 'Careers jobs to go in £80m purge' on the 14 March 2005.
The TES article suggests that 'around £150m has been earmarked for reforms in 2008, when the Connexions for 13-19 year olds will be split in two. But only half the money will be spent on the new service. The rest will be spent on redundancies and re-organisation.' The ICG website notes that the institute has responded by requesting a meeting with senior officials from within the department. They comment further that 'The article which is somewhat misleading as the TES often refer to the Connexions Service as 'Careers', actually discusses potential redundancies in the Connexions Service as a whole, and appears to stem from a departmental leak. You can access the ICG response and the text of the article from the Latest News section of the ICG site. How are services, and individuals within them reacting to this news? |
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Redundancies now here for Connexions staff - 2007 | Discussion Topic | 0 replies | 19-April-2007 | Terry Wilson |
40 staff out of a staff of 200 made redundant in Tees Valley as Connexions disaggregates to 5 local authorities one year ahead of the 2008 deadline with a transition cost of £2.3 million. How many more may follow suit in 2008?
The remunicipalisation of Connexions, some 12/13 years after careers guidance services were privatised out of local authority control, is being handled differently across the country. In Tees Valley the "musical chairs" approach to TUPE meant that when the music stopped in March 2007 ,all staff based in the Head Office delivering pan Tees Valley services were made redundant and all staff based in local areas simply transferred to local authorities. As the Connexions budgets for 2007/8 are the same as 2006/7 and local authorities benefit from not paying 17.5% VAT ,and there have been no additional staff apointed in the local areas,one may wonder what is happening to the resource let alone ponder on what service improvements could have been produced with the £2.3m of DfES money spent on redundancies, pensions, forfeiting building leases etc. Four qualified staff with over 125 years of delivering & managing careers guidance between them are amongst the 40 - what chance has the careers guidance industry of surviving the latest round of staff coups to be led by qualified & experienced personnel in future?
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