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Accreditation and validation of professional qualifications: Monitoring of the process by insertion companies.

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People at risk for exclusion and vulnerable populations have serious difficulties in accessing the ordinary labour market. Their work insertion is more complicated than that of people with high employability capacities. People's social exclusion risk could be reduced if, among other measures, their access would be facilitated to the accreditation and validation of their professional competences. This work shows how Work Integration Social Enterprises support people at risk for exclusion in obtaining the accreditation and validation of their professional qualifications. We critically describe and analyse the process, concluding that the initiative breaks with the perception of accreditation and validation of competences as an individual action. Instead, this process introduces the idea of a multi-party process for integration that returns the individual to its societal dimension.