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The French presidencyof the European
Union Conclusions of the EUPF conference And
the future LLG resolution The role of guidance
actors competences and training needs
? Françoise Divisia - MEN / MESR France
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A transversal topic

• No specific focus on the competences and training
  of LLG counsellors/actors in the conference nor
  in the future resolution
• nevertheless, this issue was evoked in the
  conclusions of the 3 conference workshops
  quality of information and services/coordination
  preventing school leaving supporting lifelong
  transitions
• And the resolution should act as a  users
  framework  (Jos) from which we can infer
  practitioners competences.

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Practitionerscompetences quality in guidance
provision

• Resolution priority area 3 Develop quality
  assurance
•  the MS should consider
• Enhancing, including through initial and further
  training, the professional profile and standards
  of guidance practitioners, and promote their
  competences and skills , in particular with
  regard to the provision of information, advice
  and support, in order to better respond to the
  needs and expectations of both citizens and
  policymakers 

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Encourage the lifelong acquisition of career
management skills

• Skills in 4 areas
• 1- self-knowledge and or self awareness how to
  evaluate oneself, to identify strong points and
  weaknesses, ones interests
• 2- search for information and its evaluation,
  decision-making processes
• 3 - the discovery of the economic environment
• 4- the knowledge of training systems and pathways
  
• The teacher should be able
• to build this competence through a range of
  pedagogical activities or experiential learning
  and individual counselling
• to help young people to build confidence, self
  esteem, independance and employability
• To give informations about the economic
  environment, buisnesses and occupations,
  education, training and quailification systems

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Key elements to support young people in
difficulty

• Guidance approach should include
• Be attentive to the symptoms of early school
  leaving
• Identifying various groups in difficulty
• Evaluating their needs and providing flexible
  suport

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Facilitate access by all citizens to guidance
services

• Access to the full range of forms
• Offer support in information searches, individual
  counselling
• Offer support in obtaining validation and
  recognition of their formal, informal and non
  formal learning outcomes
• Training programmes should prepare counsellors to
  use all the forms, web, telephone and face to
  face, particularly internet resources
• The counsellor should understand the users
  expectations and assist him in the correct use of
  information
• He should have an expertise in validation and
  recognition

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Quality assurance

• 1 .Quality of information, objectivity of career
  information impartiality and advice
• it should contribute to address sector skills
  shortages establish a clear distinction between
  sectorial interests and objective informations
• Forecasting the future jobs and skills, the
  changes on the labour market
• 2. Building a common delivery culture in a
  network model so that citizens are comparably
  served by all network partners
• Evaluate effectiveness and measure efficiency
  should pay attention to user benefit/outcomes
  gained as well as user satisfaction

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Coordination and cooperation among the various
stakeholders

• Guidance should be a shared competence area
• Avoid concurrence with other guidance services
  providers
• Networking, partnership ability to respect the
  competences of each stakeholder capacity of
  understanding the work of the other partners
• It requires clear sharing of roles and
  responsabilities of the stakeholders
• Promote a shared professionnalism

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Conclusions

• 1- Lifelong guidance should respond to the
  expectations and needs of
• - individuals/citizens
• - economy
• Social cohesion
• 2 -counselling refers to various profiles and
  skills
• It should be a shared competence between various
  actors
• 3- To ensure  flexisecurity  of the citizens
  pathways, coordination and complementarity of
  roles in guidance services is needed through
  networking