Quality criteria for group work

This paper reports on a practical rather than a scholarly exploration of how quality assurance in career learning for groups is approached across the different sectors of career guidance largely in the UK. In some sectors (career education in schools is an obvious example) group work is a main mode of delivery and we would expect all quality criteria to address it. In others, where the one-to-one interview is seen as the professional’s key contribution to client progression, we could expect that group work would be sufficiently different to require its own set of quality criteria. With these expectations I conducted a small exploration across the spectrum of career help that was available in early 2010.