Joined-Up Guidance Where do we go from here?

Two things about careers guidance occurred to me when I began to plan this lecture. The first is that historians may well look back on the l990s as in many respects a decade of huge progress in careers education and guidance matters,
at least by the standards generally applied to the sector. The second is that we may just at this moment be at something of a turning point in public policy, one that is worth recognising, reflecting on and where it seems to me that the future direction of policy is finely balanced. And that led me to realise that I was not as confident as I would like to be about where it might go.