Name of the good/interesting practice/initiative/policy
A youth database system
Country
Denmark
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1. Background
What makes this an example of good/interesting practice/initiative/policy?
- The motivation of the initiative (What is the history/background of the policy?)
- Linkages with LLG policy priorities (Please add references to other national/EU policies or documents)
- Participants
The act on guidance supports the Danish Government's declared goals that by 2015, 95% of all young people should complete a youth education programmen and by 2020, 60% should complete a higher educational programme.
New legislation has also been introduced that requires every young person to have an educational plan with these centres
In Denmark, the Ministry of Children and Education has a youth database system in place designed to collect data on all 15-29 years olds (in accordance with the civil registration system) in order to support the Youth Guidance Centres in their outreach work.
Aims and targets
- Objectives of the initiative (What did the policy set out to achieve?)
- Target group
- Methods applied to reach the objective (technological and /or pedagogical)
The Youth database enable Youth Guidance Centres and Jobcentres to target their effort – it enables them to sort of young people, that are not in education or employment in order to take measures:
15-17-years-old: Must be in education or employment
18-24-years-old: Youth Guidance Centres must make contact and motivate for education
25-29-years-old: Job centres must make contact to unemployed and take measures for employment
Provide up-to-date overview and statistics for the educational and employment status of 15-29-years-old
2. Implementation
Strategy and actions (Please describe the approach adopted to make the reform work and any actions taken.)
- Level of implementation (national, regional etc.)
- Implementation (description)
Statistical information is used and analysed within the Ministry to compare student applications in March and placements in October. This information is supported by careers practitioners, teachers and managers, and feeds into the set goals and ‘performance improving’ agenda outlined by the Ministry. A new pilot project is being considered by the Ministry to introduce a ‘balanced score card’ approach for quality assurance and evidence-based learning which includes data gathering linked to six specific domains:
• Transition rates (after 15 months).
• Number of years before young people start higher education.
• Drop-out rates (after 12 months).
• User benefits reported from the guidance they received.
• Respondents attending collective events.
• Number of counsellors holding a professional diploma.
The results will feed into a continuing improvement plan for national, regional and local career de-velopment service design and delivery.
Monitoring and evaluation
- What has been put in place for monitoring and evaluation?
- What actors are involved?
3. Outcomes
Achievements (Please describe the main outcomes/results according to the following headings. Each option can be answered - up to 50 words)
- Specific results
- Cost effectiveness
- Budget
- Innovative aspects
Costs of establishing and operating in two years is amounted to DKK 12 million.
Success factors (What key success factors have led to or prevented success?)
- Lessons learnt
- Unintended impacts (Have there been any unintended impacts? Positive or negative?)
As a result of the registration and follow-up activities, the percentage of 15-17-year-olds who are not participating in any activity are down from 2.8 % in January 2011 to 1.9 % in March 2012.
Strengths and weaknesses
- What areas of the policy can we learn lessons from?
- Are there still challenges ahead?
4. Additional narrative description of the policy/practice/initiative
Additional information
Name of contact
Steffen Jensen
Role (in policy initiative)
Organization name
Ministry og Children and Education
Address
Frederiksholms Kanal 26
Phone
0045 3392 5135
Fax
sj@uvm.dk
Website address
www.uvm.dk
Documents and publications
Attached files
Links
No links specified.
This information was provided/updated by:
Hanne woller
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