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Lord Young of Cookham (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 10 September 2026

Debate

Jobcentre Plus and National Careers Service: Merger

Contribution

My Lords, the House of Lords Select Committee on Social Mobility produced a report in which we looked at the careers service. In the words of our report, we found it very patchy across the country. We also looked at the careers service in schools and found it to be enormously varied and fragmented. To what extent will this new structure deal with those issues of uneven quality of service across the country?

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