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Supporting Personal Advisers in Connexions: Perspectives on supervision and mentoring from allied professions
ISBN 0-9537258-2-0
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This important occasional paper has been produced by the The Department of Career and Personal Development at Canterbury Christ Church University College.
The challenge of providing effective supervision, mentoring and support to personal advisers has to be addressed by Connexions services. This paper suggests that there is much that can be learned from the traditions and practices of allied professions, which can also provide services to young people with challenging needs and circumstances.
Connexions services are therefore able to draw on these approaches as they formulate their own policies on how best to supervise and support personal advisers. The academic contributors to this paper come from the fields of social work, youth work, secondary education, counselling and careers guidance. Each writer examines the approaches to supervision taken within their respective profession. The paper concludes with a final integrative chapter that aims not only to synthesis some of the key ideas from the earlier essays, but also attempts to focus the analysis on the issues currently confronting policy makers and operational managers within local Connexions services. The paper contains a foreward by Professor Tony Watts OBE who comments that:
'This collection of essays identifies some options that are available and some issues that need to be addressed in developing robust supervision arrangements for Connexions. One of the potential strengths of the new service is that it aims to draw from, and where possible weld together, a range of professional traditions. The paper illuminate both the common ground and the differences between these traditions'
Copies of this paper may be purchased for £12.99 which includes postage and packaging. Cheques should be made payable to Canterbury Christ Church University and sent to:
Occasional Papers, Centre for Career and Personal Development, David Salomons Estate, Broomhill Road, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. TN3 0TG