1. Compensation policies: does it really work ?
Pierre-Yves BERNARD, CREN, university of Nantes
The integration of young people excluded by early school leaving and unemployment: challenges and solutions
Friday 8 May 2015
The Egg Bara Street 175, 1070 Brussels

2. Compensation : what is it ?
« Compensation measures, which create new opportunities for those who have left education and training prematurely to gain qualifications. » (Eurydice-Cedefop, 2014)
Three issues :
When it begins … and when it finishes: just after leaving ? Only for young people ?
Back to school or on the job ?
Target groups or universal policy ?

3. Principles Second chance (but not last !) programmes
Guidance and access to qualification
Adaptation to the diversity of pathways
Taking into account the expectations of the young people
Three types of expectations : help and support, socialization, qualification.

4. What do we know ? Importance of local services
Benefits of training on the job
Social inclusion prior to reengagement
Success depends on the quality of support and monitoring
But … selective effects: the less disadvantaged people take more benefits from compensation measures

5. Prevention is better than cure …
And it is easier to set up new institutions (compensation) than to reform the old ones (prevention) …
Compensation as a right in the frame of Lifelong learning

6. Thank you !
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