Information, Guidance and counselling

The Recommendation pays particular attention to the role of guidance and counselling in taking forward validation. Member States should ensure within validation arrangements that ‘information and guidance on the benefits of, and opportunities for, validation, as well as on the relevant procedures, are available to individuals and organisations’ and ‘the validation of non-formal and informal learning is supported by appropriate guidance and counselling and is readily accessible’ (Council of EU, 2012, p. 3, points 3b and 3e).