The training obligation for young people has been increased from 16 to 18 years

The obligation to train up to 18 years of age was enshrined in law for a school of trust which had already lowered the age of compulsory education to 3 years.

This measure makes it possible to identify and bring young people at risk of exclusion to a path of support and training.

The conditions

The training obligation is fulfilled when young people aged 16 to 18 are:

• in an educational or apprenticeship course in a secondary school, including private establishments under contract and those of agricultural education and higher education;
• in an accompanying or social and vocational integration pathway;
• in civic service;
• in a job.

Young people who have medical certificates attesting to difficulties related to their state of health are exempt from this obligation.

The mechanism

The local missions are responsible for monitoring compliance with the training obligation and implementing identification and accompanying measures. They carry out this function in close cooperation with all those involved: schools, information and guidance centers, Pôle emploi, early school leavers (micro-high schools), schools in the 2nd^e luck, etc.

They receive relevant information on young people not complying with the training obligation through data provided by schools, apprenticeship training centers and public institutions.

An order of the ministers responsible for education and labor will specify the categories of personal data collected (relating to the identity and contact details of the young person and his legal representatives, the young person's last schooling, the solutions and support offered to the young person...).

After examining this data, local missions and other actors organize themselves at regional and local level to inform the young person about the training obligation. They then offer him an interview with his legal representative aimed at his return to school or training or access to a support or insertion device. They ensure that this journey is followed.

If the young person fails to attend the interview without having justified his or her absence, if he or she abandons his or her accompanying career at an early stage or if he or she no longer responds to the requests of the local mission, the latter summons him or her with his or her legal representative.

Without a reply within two months of being summoned and in the absence of compliance with the training obligation, the local mission sends the President of the Departmental Council information on the situation of the young person. The latter must then do everything in his power to prevent his marginalization and facilitate his social integration.