Community asset-based career guidance: Using evaluation to assist the development of emerging practices

Abstract

An evaluation of a community learning programme targeting young people found that people within local organisations (hereafter Community Assets) who were primarily responsible for providing learning opportunities, were also offering career guidance, although they did not wish to describe their activities as such. Through discussions with these Assets, it became clear that their career guidance practices could be related to the theory of identity capital. Although the programme finished at a time when the future of career guidance in England was uncertain, the Community Assets’ enthusiasm for this practice, and the support of local schools, indicated that this was an approach which could be developed further