Castilla y León will receive more than 54 million for the vocational training offer to the unemployed and employed

• The distribution of aid from the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training managed by the autonomous communities was agreed during the Sectoral Conference • The Community also obtains more than 6.2 million for training to improve and acquire the working skills of the active population

July 6, 2023.- The Official State Gazette has published the distribution corresponding to the year 2023 of the funds agreed during the Sectoral Conference of the System of Qualifications and Vocational Training for Employment. An agreement by which Castilla y León will receive 54.6 million euros from the funds that the Ministry of Education and Professional Training distributes among the autonomous communities. To that amount, 6.2 million must be added for training activities to improve and acquire skills.

On June 7, the proposal for territorial distribution and the criteria for the distribution of credits managed by autonomous communities with competences assumed in the field of vocational training for employment was approved within the National Catalogue of Professional Qualifications for 2023. In total, these funds amount to more than 867 million euros.

Castilla y León will receive 54.6 million of these funds from the 43.9 are destined to the training offer of unemployed workers. A further 9.1 million are earmarked for the training of employed workers, while the remaining 1.5 million are earmarked for actions of the vocational training system for employment which, in an extraordinary way, are provided in the vocational training centres of the public network for employed and unemployed workers.

In the same Sectoral Conference, the territorial distribution by communities of aid destined to the development of actions of ‘reskilling’, acquisition of skills, and ‘upskilling’, improvement of skills was approved. These funds have a total value of 111.5 million euros.

Of these funds, Castilla y León has allocated 6.2 million. Of the total, 2.1 million are dedicated to training in priority sectors, 1.1 million for the training of care for people and 2.2 million to training in areas at risk of depopulation.

When these funds are distributed, the number of job-seeking workers and employed workers represents a 75% valuation in the distribution criteria. In addition, it takes into account the rate of active population without professional qualifications, the geographical dispersion of the Public Administrations, the dispersion of the active population and the rate of execution of the aid in the last financial year.

In addition, in case of stability of funds, it is guaranteed that no autonomous community has a decrease in absolute terms of its credits compared to the previous year, in order to guarantee the continuity of the training actions initiated in previous years and whose maintenance or expansion is considered appropriate.