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National guidance forum

and interest organisations

The Forum for National Cooperation on The group for educational and vocational
Educational and Vocational Guidance/ guidance counsellors within the
Career Counselling and Collaboration National Union of Teachers organises
between School and Working Life was around 2,000 Swedish career
established as an arena for discussions guidance counsellors. It has written
between Swedish stakeholders in the an occupational description for career
area of guidance, as well as being a guidance counsellors and responds to
reference group for Swedish participation government green papers in the area of
in the European Lifelong Guidance Policy guidance. Some guidance counsellors
Network, ELGPN. Forum members are members of the other trade union
are representatives from national for teachers, the Teachers’ Union
agencies that work with education and (Lärarförbundet).
employment, as well as career guidance
education.

The Swedish Association of Guidance
Counsellors (SAGC) organises around
1,200 Swedish guidance professionals
from all sectors, including schools,
adult education, higher education
and employment offices. SAGC is
actively engaged in the development of
educational and vocational guidance.
The goal is to increase professionalism
in guidance practice. It holds an annual
conference for Swedish guidance
counsellors and publishes a quarterly
journal, Guidance in Education and
Working life (Vägledaren i utbildning
och arbetsliv) SAGC has also formulated
and ratified a Declaration of Ethics for
educational and vocational guidance.

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