Recommendation 7

We asked the Department about the merger of jobcentres with the National Careers Service and specifically about how it would do better at giving advice to young people about what their wishes and skills were best 7 Machinery of Government – Skills, HCWS930, 16 September 2025 8 HM Government, Post-16 Education and Skills, CP 1412, October 2025, p 6 and 12-13 9 Qq 19, 22 10 Qq 19, 22 11 Q 21 12 Q 20 8 directed towards. The Department said that there would be no change to the current arrangements whereby, for many young people, the first conversation with a careers adviser happens at school at the point where young people make important life choices about what qualifications to do. The changes would be to post-19 support for careers where the Department’s aim would be to enhance and develop the offer and embed it into everything else that is done at a jobcentre.13 The Department said it was excited about the prospects for the new integrated service, which would allow it to take a careers conversation with a customer through to a skills conversation and then through to an employment conversation.14