‘Ethics work’ in career guidance: Navigating ethical principles and ethical pressures in an under-resourced service

Abstract

There are widespread expectations that strong ethical principles will be at the heart of professional practice in career guidance. But what does ‘doing ethics’ involve at the day-to-day level of frontline work? And how do higher-level institutional arrangements and policy decisions impact on this? Recent research on career guidance in Connexions suggests that we need to take a much closer look.