14 December 2025
‘Broken’ careers service funding model to be reformed
We reported previously on the UK Government’s response to the Work and Pensions Committee’s report on the Jobs and Careers Service. While this article on the Committee’s webpages doesn’t share any new details from Government, it does confirm the Government’s commitment and adds comments by Debbie Abrahams MP, the Chair of the Committee.
The Committee’s ‘Creating a New Jobs and Careers Service’ report said that poor funding and badly designed targets had led to the National Careers Service having too little time with clients, focused on low impact interventions.
In response, the Government had said that bringing “careers advice in England in house will end the current incentivised model and enable the development of a more integrated service”. They also agreed on recognising the distinct roles of work coaches and careers advisors and to look at a “dedicated training pathway” for advisors.
Debbie Abrahams MP, Chair of the Committee welcomed the response from the Government and the commitment to fix the broken funding model. She said “Budgeting, as it does now, for just one meeting between jobseekers and advisors a year is like trying to fill an ocean with a teaspoon. The job is about finding out enough about people, their ambitions and interests, their skills, the barriers they face, what drives them, their needs, in order for them to be effective. A new, less exclusive, model would help meet the goals of Government and get people into work that suits them; benefitting jobseekers, employers and ultimately, the economy.”
Read the article from the Work and Pensions Committee.
The Committee’s ‘Creating a New Jobs and Careers Service’ report said that poor funding and badly designed targets had led to the National Careers Service having too little time with clients, focused on low impact interventions.
In response, the Government had said that bringing “careers advice in England in house will end the current incentivised model and enable the development of a more integrated service”. They also agreed on recognising the distinct roles of work coaches and careers advisors and to look at a “dedicated training pathway” for advisors.
Debbie Abrahams MP, Chair of the Committee welcomed the response from the Government and the commitment to fix the broken funding model. She said “Budgeting, as it does now, for just one meeting between jobseekers and advisors a year is like trying to fill an ocean with a teaspoon. The job is about finding out enough about people, their ambitions and interests, their skills, the barriers they face, what drives them, their needs, in order for them to be effective. A new, less exclusive, model would help meet the goals of Government and get people into work that suits them; benefitting jobseekers, employers and ultimately, the economy.”
Read the article from the Work and Pensions Committee.
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