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Continuing professional development in focus: changes from January 2025!
From January 2025, the employment agency will be responsible for promoting further vocational training in Bottrop. Find out more about the changes!
Continuing professional development in focus: changes from January 2025!
From January 1, 2025, the process for promoting further vocational training for SGB II customers will change. According to information from Bottrop newspaper the area will change from SGB II to SGB III. The Gelsenkirchen Employment Agency and the Bottrop and Gelsenkirchen job centers already informed educational providers about the upcoming changes on October 24, 2024.
From the beginning of 2025, the approval and financing of further vocational training will be the responsibility of the employment agencies. Despite this change, the employment agency and the job centers will continue to work together strategically and operationally. Education vouchers will continue to be issued on the premises of the job centers, but in the future they will be issued by employees of the employment agency. The job centers are responsible for providing advice on the targeted allocation of these vouchers.
Voucher issue details
For 2025, the educational vouchers are expected to be provided at the same level as in the previous year. The following quota is planned:
- Jobcenter Gelsenkirchen: 700 Gutscheine
- Jobcenter Bottrop: 200 Gutscheine
- Agentur für Arbeit Gelsenkirchen: 850 Gutscheine
The importance of further training and qualification remains high for the agency and the job centers. Educational providers receive a permanent contact person at the employment agency, with Stefan Schlenski being responsible for Bottrop and Thomas Schneider being responsible for Gelsenkirchen.
In addition to these changes, as stated in a press release from the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs noted, from January 1, 2025, the advice, approval and financing of vocational training and rehabilitation measures for those receiving citizens' benefit will also be carried out by the employment agencies. In this context, job centers will only act as advisors while they support those receiving citizens' benefit during the measures and are responsible for their integration into work.
The changes from January 1, 2025 also include further regulations such as the introduction of a job center app and adjustments to various social security systems.