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plans to make schools responsible for the direction of the age of 19 may compromise their future and deepening deprivation, experts say

As pupils get GCSE results on Thursday, many will be worried about what to do next. With figures last week showing youth unemployment reached over 20%, the demolition of the maintenance of education and a significant increase in tuition fees, now more than ever, young people need advice quality of their options. But experts have warned that professional advice for under 19s at risk of being decimated.

Under the proposed reforms to vocational guidance, a new national plans to launch next April, that teenagers have no right to a face to face counseling. Instead, he referred to a website or told to call a helpline. The duty to provide advice face to face will be transferred to the school, although they receive no funding from the £ 203m plant to pay for existing service.

the Government had appointed an advisory group on what was then called the Career Service for all ages, July 20, suddenly and without consultation, which became the National Panel of Employment Advisory Service, whose mandate is reduced. The group is so angered by the unilateral decision that the 20 considered resigning en masse.

"There will be a service for all ages, races," said Steve Higginbotham, president of the Institute of Career Guidance. "It's a next step renowned service for adults and a telephone line for all ages and advice site. The experience of the group was not used in a meaningful way and officials did their best to avoid answering the tough questions, when clearly not I knew almost from the beginning that the government's intentions were not what they originally planned. "

While some employers have not found the money, anyone who left school at age 16 will not be able to face to face conversation about your career needs training until the age of 19 years, when they become eligible to access adult services.
Kieran Gordon, executive director of the Alliance of Greater Merseyside Connexions, said this means that young people will not be able to develop a trusting relationship with a qualified professional who can guide them in understanding family situation and personal barriers. They run the risk of "drift ... or try something that is not appropriate, frustrated, and after beating his confidence, then abandoned. It's a huge waste and a lack of investment in young people's lives. "