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3�2 Monitoring / 3� 2� 2 provided by private

evaluation of career employment agencies
guidance and Yearly as of 31 January, private employment
st
counselling in the agencies registered by the MLSA are required
to submit an overview of their activities for the
employment sector previous year to the General Directorate of the
Labour Office� The overview provides neither
3� 2� 1 provided by public the number of persons nor the methods of
providing guidance counselling services�
employment services

The Labour Office covers 14 regional offices and
about 225 contact points� Every labour office
has established and tuns an Information and
Counselling Centre (ICC)� There are 79 ICC in the
country as a whole, providing career counsel-
ling to pupils (in cooperation with schools) and
adults (unemployed and other citizens)� During
the first half of 2014, ICC provided services to
more than 370 thousand clients�

Career guidance and counselling provided by
public employment services is monitored and
evaluated by the General Directorate of the
Labour Office (Generální ředitelství Úřadu práce
České republiky, GŘ ÚP)� One of monitoring tools
is a national system of monitoring indicators� It
also includes performance indicators for guid-
ance counselling involving job brokering and
performance indicators for special guidance�
The General Directorate of the Labour Office
also monitors the International PES Benchmark-
ing indicators recommended by the European
18
Commission�

Furthermore, organisations operating as “regis-
tered social services providers” provide career
counselling and they are guided by standards,
which also regulate monitoring/evaluation
processes (in the Quality Standards of Social
Services )�
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18 www.pes-benchmarking.eu/
19 www.mpsv.cz/files/clanky/11911/vyhlas-
ka_505-2006.pdf

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