Fifth meeting of CEN Workshop 51 on Common Quality Framework for Social Services of General Interest

13 September 2010, Brussels

The CEN Workshop 51 – Common Quality Framework for Social Services is the initial stage of the Prometheus project. The fifth and final CEN workshop 51 was held at CEN’s offices in Brussels to discuss the 7th draft of the Common Quality Framework (CQF) for Social Services of General Interest (SSGI).

The workshop was attended by 24 participants from a cross section of national and European organisations. To begin the meeting Guus van Beek, chairman of the CEN WS 51, gave an overview of the received feedback on the proposed CEN Workshop Agreement: a Common Quality Framework for Social Service of General Interest. 78 % of the organisations that expressed their opinion would like to adopt the proposed text and 22 % of the participants that expressed an explicit opinion did not want to adopt the text as a CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA).

It was agreed that the document would not be formally adopted as a CWA but that it would be formally adopted as the text of the Prometheus project. The final version of the Common Quality Framework is now available on the EPR website and will be printed for further dissemination.

Prometheus Project homepage

CEN WS 51 homepage