This is a joint strategy and implementation plan for career guidance services in Northern Ireland of two government ministries/ the Department of Education and the Department for Employment and Learning. Based on extensive consultation exercises on its proposals of 2007, the document outlines a new comprehensive strategy for the delivery of career guidance services and the challenges involved. It articulates a vision for the future and maps the actions required to deliver it.

The vision is subdivided into five themes:

1. Careers education
2. Access to careers information
3. Improving careers advice and guidance
4. Improving quality
5. Improving professional development.

This is the Danish translation of the European Council of Education Ministers' Resolution (2008) on better integrating lifelong guidance in strategies for lifelong learning. The Resolution defined four key areas/axes to guide national reforms of policies and systems:

This is the German translation of the Council of Education Ministers' Resolution (2008) on better integrating lifelong guidance into lifelong learning strategies.

It defines 4 key axes of action for the reform of guidance services in Member States:

O Conselho da Uniao Europeia de Novembro de 2008 convidam os estados-membros a:

• favorecer a aquisicao da capacidade de orientacao ao longo da vida
• facilitar o acesso de todos os cidados aos servicos de orientacao
• desenvolve a garantia de qualidade dos sericos de orientacao
• incentivar a coordenacao e cooperacao dos diversos intervenientes a nivel nacional, regional e local.

El Consejo de la Union Europea de noviembre de 2008 invita los estados miembros a aplicar los siguientes principes rectores:

• favorecer la adquisicion permanente de capacidades de orientacion
• facilitar el acceso de todos los ciudadanos a los servicios de orientacion
• desarrolar la garantia de calidad de los servicios de orientacion
• fomentar la coordinacion y la cooperacion de los distintos protagonistas a niveles nacional, regional y local.

Le Conseil des ministres d'éducation de l'Union européenne ont adoptés cette Résolution en novembre 2008 afin de aider les états membres a réformer leur politiques, systémés et pratiques de l'orientation tout au long de la vie et de donner un soutien communtaire au travail de la European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network (ELGPN).

La Résolution invite les états membres a appliquer les principes directeurs ci-aprés dans leurs efforts de réforme:

• favoriser l'acquisition de la capacité à s'orienter tout au long de la vie
• faciliter l'accés de tous les citoyens aux services d'orientation
• dévelloper l'assurance qualité des services d'orientation
• encourager la coordination et la cooperation des différents acteurs aux niveaux national, régional et local.

This November 2008 Resolution of the EU Council of Ministers is an instrument to assist Member States to implement reform of career guidance services within their national strategies for lifelong learning. It highlights four areas for reform:

• Encouraging the acquisition of career management skills
• Facilitating access to guidance services by all sections of the population
• Developing the quality assurance of guidance provision
• Encouraging coordination and cooperation between all the stakeholders at national, regional and local levels.

It provides a political mandate for the work of the European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network (ELGPN) for the next 4 years.