Since 2021, various studies by the Court of Accounts have focused on block-release and vocational training for employees, which mobilised € 21.8 billion in public funding in 2022. This note summarises the results.
The liberalisation of the framework for employee block-release and vocational training by the Act of 5 September 2018 on the freedom to choose one’s professional future, the incentives to use apprenticeships and the personal training account (CPF), and the absence of any limit on the funding of these two schemes have resulted in very strong spending momentum. This dynamic is not primarily set up to the needs of the least qualified parts of population, who are the ones who would benefit most from it. The objectives of the 2018 reform are essentially quantitative (more than 837,000 new apprenticeship contracts and more than 2,050,000 active CPF users in 2022), and there was a lack of adequate concern for the usefulness of the expenditure.
