Very few parents will have the specialist knowledge required to give accurate and up-to-date Information, Advice and Guidance on the things that matter to young people i.e. jobs, careers, education, training, Apprenticeships, and any Personal Issues that affect young people. That is why the Connexions Service was set up originally.
Qualified Connexions Advisers have been eliminated or on their dying legs in the UK (the latter until Mar 012). Who will give the impartial advice they gave in schools, colleges, and community centres? No-one! It is now reverting back to what it was like in the bad old days, where a Geography Teacher in his lunchbreak was all you had!
It is an absolute myriad out there for young people with dwindling jobs and opportunites, and youth unemployment at 1.25 million. Without these specialist advisers, many will not know what to do, nor what help to receive.
The only specialist agency for young people, ironically, set up by the government, has now been dissolved, and the institutions where they worked will not be able to produce the same results, and young people as a whole, will now be the product of a disservice.