Ordinance On The Composition And Operation Of Expert Bodies In The Procedure Of Achieving Social Welfare Rights And Other Rights According To Special Regulations
Subject of the Policy document
Ordinance On The Composition And Operation Of Expert Bodies In The Procedure Of Achieving Social Welfare Rights And Other Rights According To Special Regulations
Reference data
Adopted/Released by The Croatian Parliament
Year of adoption 2002/2011
Reference number Official Gazette 64/02, 145/11
Available at http:// narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2011_12_145_2950.html
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Form No. 1: SOCIAL WORKER'S SHEET
10. SOCIAL AND FAMILY HISTORY INFORMATION (place, duration and reason for temporary stay, previous expert analysis, previously achieved rights, information on household members, housing conditions, financial situation, circumstances and progress of education, career guidance and rehabilitation, work status, marital status, situation in the marriage or parents' marriage, description of behaviour, respondent's opinion or the opinion of his/her legal representative on the abilities and needs of the respondent).
Form No. 8: PHYSIATRIST – ORTHOPAEDIC SHEET
13. Use of aids (appliances):
13.1. Which aids are used
13.2. Is the aid used throughout the day or a portion of the day
13.3. Does the aid effect career guidance and does it improve work and everyday activities
14. Assessment of:
14.1. Ability to stand, move, sit, balance (sitting down and standing)
14.2. Conditions to attend school – go to workplace
14.3. Posture at the workplace
14.4. Body position when lying down for persons over 65
14.5. Ability to move arms
- dominant
- non-dominant
14.6. Contraindications for career guidance considering work conditions and surroundings.
Form No. 13e: DEFECTOLOGIST'S SHEET FOR PERSONS WITH MENTAL RETARDATION INDICATION
If the person is going to school or has gone to school, list:
- if the person was diagnosed according to educational standards (yes/no),
- if the person was diagnosed for the purposes of career guidance (yes/no); if yes: where the diagnosis was carried out (CES career guidance service, career guidance team at the special educational or rehabilitation institution, elsewhere).
Form No. 16: SOCIAL AND FAMILY HISTORY INFORMATION ON THE PERSON REFERRED TO EXPERT ANALYSIS
17. Career guidance, training and rehabilitation, work status, workplace, tasks carried out or being carried out, years of employment
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Decision On Elements And Criteria For Candidate Selection For High-School Enrolment In 2011/2012
Subject of the Policy document
Decision On Elements And Criteria For Candidate Selection For High-School Enrolment In 2011/2012
Reference data
Adopted/Released by Ministry of Science, Education and Sports
Year of adoption 2012/2013
Reference number KLASA: 602-03/11-06/00213, URBROJ: 533-09-12-0011
Available at http:// http://public.mzos.hr/Default.aspx?sec=3339
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Enrolment of candidates with difficulties
XVI.
Candidates with developmental disabilities
a) Candidates with developmental disabilities (physical or mental disability as a result of health issue) are candidates whose disabilities, due to their intensity and duration, had significant effect on their previous primary education, and who have finished primary school in the regular curriculum with individualised approach or in the adjusted curriculum.
Candidates can be enrolled in regular secondary education programs with individualised approach (methods and teaching aids), or in adjusted programs.
b) Pupils who finished their primary education in special programs, or adjusted programs (exception), continue their secondary education in special educational programs in high-schools or special educational institutions, i.e. social welfare institutions authorised to carry out secondary education programs for pupils with developmental disabilities.
Candidates with developmental disabilities from paragraphs 1 and 2 of this item have the right of direct enrolment.
To achieve these rights, candidates from paragraphs 1 and 2 enclose their documents, as well as:
- expert opinion of the career guidance service on the candidate's available abilities and motivation to continue their education, with a list of recommendations (list of occupations)...
XVII.
Candidates with health difficulties, learning difficulties and behavioural issues
Candidates with health difficulties, learning difficulties, behavioural issues and emotional issues are pupils whose previous primary education and achievement have been influenced by one of the abovementioned factors or a combination thereof, and who have finished their primary education in the regular curriculum with individualised approach.
Candidates with health difficulties, learning difficulties, behavioural issues and emotional issues receive 3 points to the score set in the valuation process. The candidates receive their ranking at the school with this score.
Candidates from paragraph 1 have the right to apply to a school if they have a score that meets the school enrolment threshold (pursuant to criteria in item IV of this Decision and paragraph 2 of this item), and if they pass the entrance exam that some schools have to test ability and talent.
To achieve these rights, candidates from paragraph 1 of this item, enclose their documents, as well as:
- expert opinion of the career guidance service on the candidate's available abilities and motivation to continue their education, with a list of recommendations (list of occupations).
Enrolment of candidates based on the Croatian National Programme for the Roma
XIX.
Candidates from the Roma minority, who live in such conditions that can affect their success in primary school, receive 2 points to the score set in the valuation process. The candidates receive their ranking at the school with this score.
Candidates from paragraph 1 have the right to apply to a school if they have a score that meets the school enrolment threshold (pursuant to criteria in item IV of this Decision and paragraph 2 of this item), and if they pass the entrance exam that some schools have to test ability and talent.
To achieve these rights, candidates from paragraph 1 of this item, enclose their application, as well as:
- expert opinion of the career guidance service on the candidates' abilities and motivation for up to three appropriate educational programmes.
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EUROPE 2020: A strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth
Subject of the Policy document
EUROPE 2020: A strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth
Reference data
Adopted/Released by European Commission
Year of adoption 2010
Reference number COM(2010) 2020 final
Available at http:// http://ec.europa.eu/europe2020/documents/related-document-type/index_en.htm
Available in English at http:// http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2010:2020:FIN:EN:PDF
1. Additional narrative description of the reference to Lifelong Guidance
While the strategy makes no explicit reference to lifelong guidance, the paper and its flagship initiatives (Youth on the Move, The Agenda for New Skills and Jobs, Innovation Union, and A European Platform against Poverty and Social Exclusion) emphasise the active role of citizens' acquisition of lifelong career management skills.
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Towards Common Principles of Flexicurity - Draft Council Conclusions
Subject of the Policy document
Towards Common Principles of Flexicurity - Draft Council Conclusions
Reference data
Adopted/Released by Council of the European Union
Year of adoption 2007
Reference number 15497/07
Available at http:// http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=102&langId=en
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1. Additional narrative description of the reference to Lifelong Guidance
Draft Council conclusion, which sets out the key principles of flexicurity. While the document makes no direct reference to lifelong guidance, it is an underlying assumption in one of the four policy components of flexicurity, Comprehensive lifelong learning strategies.
Please also see the Commission Communication (Towards Common Principles of Flexicurity) and the Council Secretariat's Report by the "flexicurity" mission on the implementation of the flexicurity, both availabe in this database.
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Towards Common Principles of Flexicurity: More and better jobs through flexibility and security
Subject of the Policy document
Towards Common Principles of Flexicurity: More and better jobs through flexibility and security
Reference data
Adopted/Released by European Commission
Year of adoption 2007
Reference number COM(2007) 359 final
Available at http:// http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=102&langId=en
Available in English at http://
1. Additional narrative description of the reference to Lifelong Guidance
Commission communication, which sets out the key principles of flexicurity. While the document makes no direct reference to lifelong guidance, it is an underlying assumption in one of the four policy components of flexicurity, Comprehensive lifelong learning strategies.
Please also see the Council Conclusions (Towards Common Principles of Flexicurity) and the Council Secretariat's Report by the "flexicurity" mission on the implementation of the flexicurity, both availabe in this database.
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Act On Professional Rehabilitation And Employment Of Persons With Disabilities
Subject of the Policy document
Act On Professional Rehabilitation And Employment Of Persons With Disabilities
Reference data
Adopted/Released by The Croatian Parliament
Year of adoption 2002/2005
Reference number Official Gazette 143/02, 33/05
Available at http:// narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/288162.html
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Article 6
(1) A person with disabilities has a right to professional training and rehabilitation (hereinafter: professional rehabilitation) under general conditions and, if necessary, due to the severity and type of disability in question or success of the rehabilitation process in special schools and institutions for professional rehabilitation, under specially adapted or special programmes.
(2) Professional rehabilitation covers the following measures and activities:
– definition of other working and general abilities,
– professional information, counselling and assessment of professional abilities,
– labour market analysis, employment possibilities and inclusion in the world of labour,
– assessment of possibilities of performance, development and implementation of professional development programmes,
– professional training, additional qualification and programmes for maintenance and development of work and society-related skills and abilities in the employment,
– information and counselling on supplementary technologies in learning and working,
– individual and group programmes for improvement of work and society-related inclusion in the community,
– proposals on use of different technologies and techniques in the learning and working processes with the assessment of possible use,
– pre-professional learning, planning and implementing the chosen technology,
– development of motivation and training of persons with disabilities in use of the chosen technology,
– technical assistance, support, monitoring and assessment of results,
– information and support regarding financial resources.
(3) Duration of professional rehabilitation depends on the other working abilities and complexity of its organization and implementation.
(4) Professional rehabilitation of persons with disabilities is organized and implemented by an organization for professional rehabilitation, secondary school or another legal entity which fulfils conditions prescribed by this Act and other acts.
(5) Practical dimension of training during professional rehabilitation is carried out at employers' premises, or, exceptionally, within an institution for professional rehabilitation or a specialised educational institution.
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Anti-Discrimination Act
Subject of the Policy document
Anti-Discrimination Act
Reference data
Adopted/Released by The Croatian Parliament
Year of adoption 2008
Reference number Official Gazette 85/08
Available at http:// narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2008_07_85_2728.html
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Article 8.
This Act shall apply to the conduct of all state bodies, bodies of local and regional self-government units, legal persons vested with public authority, and to the conduct of all legal and natural persons, especially in the following areas:
1. work and working conditions; access to self-employment and occupation, including selection criteria, recruiting and promotion conditions; access to all types of vocational guidance, vocational training, professional improvement and retraining;
2. education, science and sports;
3. social security, including social welfare, pension and health insurance and unemployment insurance;
4. health protection;
5. judiciary and administration;
6. housing;
7. public informing and the media;
8. access to goods and services and their providing;
9. membership and activities in trade unions, civil society organisations, political parties or any other organisations;
10. access to participation in the cultural and artistic creation.
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Ordinance On The Procedure To Determine The Psycho-Physiological State Of A Child Or Pupil, And The Composition Of Expert Committee
Subject of the Policy document
Ordinance On The Procedure To Determine The Psycho-Physiological State Of A Child Or Pupil, And The Composition Of Expert Committee
Reference data
Adopted/Released by The Croatian Parliament
Year of adoption 2011
Reference number Official Gazette 55/11
Available at http:// narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2011_05_55_1214.html
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Article 14.
(1) The committee defined in article 2 of this Ordinance assesses the psycho-physiological state of a child with difficulties of enrolling into adequate high-school level education
(2) Prior to psycho-physiological assessment for the purpose of enrolment into adequate secondary education, the pupil with difficulties shall go through the procedure of career guidance.
(3) Career guidance is carried out by the CES career guidance team.
(4) The career guidance service drafts its opinion on the available abilities, motivation and interests of the candidates with a list of possible health contraindications for the purpose of enrolling into an adequate secondary education.
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Ordinance On Active Job Seeking And Availability To Work
Subject of the Policy document
Ordinance On Active Job Seeking And Availability To Work
Reference data
Adopted/Released by The Croatian Parliament
Year of adoption 2009
Reference number Official Gazette 39/09
Available at http:// narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2009_03_39_886.html
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Article 7.
(1) CES also organises targeted career guidance that can include a psychological-medical examination of the unemployed person.
(2) The expert team for career guidance carries out the procedure of targeted career guidance, with the possibility of inviting an occupational health specialist into the team as needed.
(3) The unemployed person is obliged to get involved in the targeted career guidance based on arrangements made with a CES official prior to determining a professional plan or based on activities from the already determined professional plan.
(4) The unemployed person is informed about the time of career counselling during their individual counselling meeting by means of a referral that has to be signed, letter, telegram or phone, with an official note being made about the information sent.
Article 8.
(1) Group counselling allows the unemployed person to gain and develop skills for active job seeking and competences to manage their own career development.
(2) Group counselling is carried out in four modules:
– writing cover letters and resume,
– active job seeking techniques,
– preparing for interviews,
– self-assessment of professional possibilities.
(3) The unemployed person is obliged to get involved in the targeted group counselling based on arrangements made with a CES official prior to determining a professional plan or based on activities from the already determined professional plan.
(4) O The unemployed person is informed about the time of group counselling during their individual counselling meeting by means of a referral that has to be signed, letter, telegram or phone, with an official note being made about the information sent.
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Act On Education In Primary And Secondary Schools
Subject of the Policy document
Act On Education In Primary And Secondary Schools
Reference data
Adopted/Released by The Croatian Parliament
Year of adoption 2008/2009/2010/2011
Reference number Official Gazette 87/08, 86/09, 92/10, 105/10, 90/11
Available at http:// narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2011_08_90_1927.html
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Article 57
(1) Educational institutions cooperate in implementation of their core educational activity to achieve optimal enrolment and placement of pupils.
(2) Schools also cooperate by receiving services from a social / health care institution, especially if it concerns work with rehabilitation services and content.
(3) Educational institutions cooperate with employment services and other institutions with the aim of achieving timely information levels and career guidance of pupils.
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Labour Act
Subject of the Policy document
Labour Act
Reference data
Adopted/Released by The Croatian Parliament
Year of adoption 2009/2011
Reference number Official Gazette 149/09, 61/11
Available at http:// narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2009_12_149_3635.html
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Article 5.
(1) The employer shall assign a worker a job and pay him or her for the work carried out, and the worker shall perform personally the job assigned, following the employer's instructions given according to the nature and the type of work,
(2) The employer has the right to specify the location and manner of carrying out the work, while respecting the rights and dignity of the worker.
(3) The employer shall, in accordance with a separate law and other regulations, provide the employee with safe working conditions that are not hazardous to the health of employees.
(4) Direct and indirect discrimination in the field of labour and labour conditions shall be prohibited, which includes selection criteria and employment requirements, promotion requirements, vocational guidance, vocational training, additional training and retraining, in accordance with special law.
(5) The employer shall protect employees' dignity during work from such treatment by superiors, peers and persons with whom employees come into regular contact during their work that is unwanted and contrary to separate law.
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Psychological Activity Act
Subject of the Policy document
Psychological Activity Act
Reference data
Adopted/Released by The Croatian Parliament
Year of adoption 2003
Reference number Official Gazette 47/03
Available at http:// narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/305170.html
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Article 3
A general purpose of psychological activities is to improve quality of life of individuals, groups and communities. Psychological activities are included in all areas of human life, especially in areas which relate to work and organization of work, employment and career guidance, communication and market, education, research and analysis, health care, sport, social care, transport, judiciary, military and police.
Article 7
Implementation of psychological activity which is not covered by undergraduate education and it covers more demanding forms of work in the area of clinical, health, penological, forensic, military, pedagogical and educational psychology, psychology of work, sports, special care, career guidance and medicine of work requires of each psychologist, in additional to the basic working permit, a special certificate.
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Act On Employment Mediation And Rights During Unemployment
Subject of the Policy document
Act On Employment Mediation And Rights During Unemployment
Reference data
Adopted/Released by The Croatian Parliament
Year of adoption 2008/2009/2010
Reference number Official Gazette 80/08, 94/09, 121/10
Available at http:// narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2008_07_80_2602.html
Available in English at http:// www.hzz.hr/default.aspx?id=7085
1. Additional narrative description of the reference to Lifelong Guidance
Article 1
This Act regulates employment mediation, career guidance, education and training with the aim of increasing the labour force, insurance during unemployment, activities in the labour market with the aim of promoting spatial and professional mobility of the labour force, new employment and self-employment, financial resources for activities of the Croatian Employment Service (hereinafter: CES) and its structure, management and activities.
Article 22
Employment preparation includes the following:
1) career guidance,
2) introduction to methods and techniques of active job seeking,
3) training for employment,
4) professional rehabilitation.
Article 23
(1) Career guidance refers to a number of professional activities which define possibilities, interests and competences of clients, so that they make decisions on their education, training and employment and thus manage their professional development.
(2) Career guidance includes informing, counselling and monitoring of professional development of persons from Paragraph 1 thereof.
(3) Career guidance services are delivered to unemployed persons and other job seekers, pupils and students.
Article 63
CES performs the following activities:
1) monitors, analyses and keeps track of economic, social and other trends, employment figures, employment and unemployment and their mutual cooperation and impacts based on which it proposes measures for promotion of employment,
2) keeps register on unemployment persons and other persons, mediates in employment between employers and job seekers, monitors employment needs, their employment and , in that sense, cooperates with employers,
3) in cooperation with employers, educational institutions and other legal entities, organizes and implements career guidance services, training and other forms of active employment policies …
4) collaborates with educational institutions in order to harmonize curricula with demand for the labour force and implementation of career guidance ...
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Extinct Act IV of 1991 on Job Assistance and Unemployment Benefits_HU
Subject of the Policy document
Extinct Act IV of 1991 on Job Assistance and Unemployment Benefits_HU
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Adopted/Released by
Year of adoption
Reference number
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Several modifications were made in the recent years
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