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Annex 4: Current development of national co-ordination/co-operation mechanisms

In January 2012, Tribal Education Ltd., on behalf of • Six countries have structures in place, under the
the Croatian Employment Service (CES), invited Dr banner of a National Lifelong Guidance Forum,
Deirdre Hughes to produce a synopsis of the statu- to support the bringing together of key stake-
tory provisions providing the base for National Fora holders to review and take action on lifelong
for Career Guidance in ELGPN member-states. Full guidance policy and practice issues: Estonia,
details of the findings are available on the ELGPN Ireland, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovak
website. They draw upon available evidence in Feb- Republic and the UK.
ruary 2012 from 27 EU member-states and two addi-
tional countries participating in ELGPN (Iceland, • One country, France, has legislation in place
Norway). The main conclusions are: which facilitates a direct line to the Prime Min-
ister and Council of Ministers.
• Two countries have formal government leg-
islation in place to underpin the formation • Three countries report work in progress in set-
and operation of a National Lifelong Guidance ting up a National Lifelong Guidance Forum:
Forum: Denmark and Greece. Bulgaria, Cyprus and Spain.

• In two countries, Germany and Poland, a • Three countries have national support groups
National Lifelong Guidance Forum has been that feed into the work of ELGPN: Iceland,
developed and established as a legal entity, with Slovenia and Sweden. In addition, Belgium
constitutional arrangements firmly in place. and Italy have loosely grouped fora that feed
into national and ELGPN development plans
• Nine countries have National Lifelong Guid- for lifelong guidance.
ance Forum in place led by one or more min-
istries: Austria, Czech Republic, Finland, • Three countries have established regional fora/
Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, partnerships: Finland, Norway and Poland.
Norway and Portugal.

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