Publications of the National Guidance Forum

The Forum’s Final Report Guidance for Life: An Integrated Framework for Lifelong Guidance in Ireland was submitted to the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment and the Minister for Education and Science in January 2007. It contains a national lifelong guidance framework and a proposal for national and local structures to support the implementation of the framework.

Left to Right - Dr Raimo Vuorinen – Head of Secretariat for European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network, Ms Doreen McMorris – Assistant Chief Inspector, Department of Education and Science, Mr Michael Ahern TD – Minister for Innovation Policy and Ms Eileen Fitzpatrick – Director, National Centre for Guidance in Education at the launch of the Forum's Final Report

The Final Report was launched by Minister for Innovation Policy, Mr Michael Ahern, T.D., on 5 October, 2007 in the Clock Tower, Department of Education and Science, Marlborough Street.
Read the Minister's speech here
Read Press Release about the Launch of the Forum's Final Report here

Download the complete report here in pdf format:
Guidance for Life: An Integrated Framework for Lifelong Guidance in Ireland

Download Irish version of Final Report
Treoir don Saol Creat comhtháite do Threoir ar feadh an tSaoil in Éirinn


The report also includes the following documents:

Guidance in Ireland: Background Scoping Report

Perceptions of the General Public on Guidance and Guidance Services: Consultative Process Report

or Download Executive Summary of Consultative Report only

Quality in Guidance

A Competency Framework for Guidance Practitioners