North Rhine-Westphalia: Employment agencies in NRW want graduate data from schools

Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) - In the future, the employment agencies in North Rhine-Westphalia want to receive information from the schools about future school leavers in order to be able to make better training offers for young people.

North Rhine-Westphalia: Employment agencies in NRW want graduate data from schools

Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) - In the future, the employment agencies in North Rhine-Westphalia want to receive information from the schools about future school leavers in order to be able to make better training offers for young people. "We here in North Rhine-Westphalia are currently in talks with the state government," said the head of the North Rhine-Westphalia Regional Directorate, Roland Schuessler of the "Rheinische Post" (Wednesday edition). Labor Minister Karl-Josef Laumann (CDU) has already promised to create the necessary legal basis for this.

The federal government has created the conditions for data to be transferred from schools to the federal agency in the federal states. "So far, only two federal states have done that," said Schuessler.

According to the labor market expert, the situation has so far been unsatisfactory. "We're out and about in schools, offering individual counseling sessions. But despite our best efforts, we don't know if everyone is taken care of." That will change with the new regulation. "Then we can say 100 percent in the coming year where young people are still without care and make them offers."

Schüßler admitted, of course, that this would initially drive up the number of people who were not cared for in the statistics. But that would then have to be communicated transparently.