New report from Cedris: Agenda for the future 2025, a Dutch Analysis

Cedris, the umbrella organization for social organizations for employment and labor in the Netherlands aims for its 93 members and their customers to deliver the best possible service to their interests. Therefore tries Cedris to forecast the uncertain long-term future and to explore strategic develop options, so that their members can anticipate rather than just respond when the time comes.Cedris expected in the coming years huge shifts in the industry.

Most people who worked in the past by Cedris members were placed in sheltered workshops. Today there is a tendency to employ more people with regular employers, that others are placed on supervised work or in secondment. Cedris members are by law responsible to perform the Wsw (Law on sheltered Workshops), but are also very active in  Work First programs and also provide courses and re-integration for other disadvantaged groups. (For example, under the WIA (Wet Werk en Inkomen naar Arbeidsvermogen, the Law Work and Income related to Labor capacity). As a result Cedris members serve increasingly the full range of groups with a distance the labor market: Wsw'ers, Wajongers, and WIJ'ers WWB'ers translation: Sheltered Workshops, Youngsters with a disability, Allowances for youngsters and the catch net: the Law for Work and Allowances) .

Currently Cedris members are supporting approximately 160,000 people with a distance from the labor market. It is expected that this demand will grow. Above that the sector has to deal with the (political) increasing austerity of regime and the development of a new regime for the 'bottom' of the labor market: the Law Work to Abilities. What impact will these new regulations have on the sector?
What problems face people with a distance to the labor market the next 15 years? How do they cope and how can we provide appropriate professional guidance and infrastructure for the development of this group? How can we provide a sustainable link with housing and care?
The above is just a few of the trends and uncertainties for the sector to come. Cedris will provide its members insight into future developments and help them to be prepared for this uncertain future. Therefore Cedris will try to look 15 years ahead with its members and people from the industry and beyond. It will do this in the coming period through a process of scenario-based planning work.
The first step in this process is an exploration of our environment. That provides insight in developments, trends and uncertainties relevant to the outside world for the industry. This trend report is the result of this exploration and forms the basis for the next step in the scenario study.
In the first chapter, Megatrends: Shifts in Society, A large number of important developments currently relevant in our society and to our Sector are described. The subsequent chapters are zooming in on our industry and describe concrete developments in various fields, as the organization of social security, aging audience, and the flexibility of labor, rising demand and tight public finances.The second step in the process is interviews with stakeholders working in practice and science. They share their vision for the future (reintegration) of people at the bottom of the labor market. The interviews you will find in a separate publication. Based on this trend report and the interviews with member’s scenarios will be developed and will we determine a strategy that will form the basis for the agenda for the future.

You can download the reports in Dutch:

Agenda voor de toekomst Trendrapportage.pdf 

In gesprek met de buitenwereld.pdf  (dialog with the outside World)

WE is working on the English translation