Samenwerkingsverband Passend Onderwijs VO Doetinchem e.o. 25-03

What Samenwerkingsverband Passend Onderwijs VO Doetinchem e.o. 25-03 does

Samenwerkingsverband Passend Onderwijs VO Doetinchem e.o. 25-03 is a Dutch educational cooperation association (Vereniging) established in 2014 to coordinate 'passend onderwijs' — inclusive and appropriate secondary education — across the Doetinchem region of Gelderland, Netherlands. The organization comprises 4 school boards and serves secondary school students in the municipalities of Doetinchem, Oude IJsselstreek, Doesburg, and parts of Montferland and parts of Bronckhorst. Its core services include operating the Toewijzingscommissie (allocation committee) that reviews and issues toelaatbaarheidsverklaring (TLV) eligibility declarations for special secondary education (VSO) and practical education (PRO); managing the four-year Ondersteuningsplan (support plan, currently 2022-2026 and extended to 2027); facilitating the Ondersteuningsplanraad (participation council); and coordinating with municipalities, care partners, and neighboring samenwerkingsverbanden to ensure holistic student support and smooth educational transitions. The organization processes TLV applications through the Indigo digital system, supported by Azure-hosted infrastructure.

The entity operates as a publicly funded coordination body with no commercial revenue. It is financed entirely through Dutch national government (Rijksoverheid) allocations distributed through its 4 member school boards, with operational funding directed toward coordination overhead, expertise sharing, and resource allocation rather than direct service delivery to students. With 13 employees based at its headquarters on Vondelstraat 5 in Doetinchem, the organization functions in a quasi-regulatory capacity: each of the more than 300 Dutch samenwerkingsverbanden VO holds a statutorily-defined regional mandate, making this entity the legally designated coordinator of passend onderwijs for its specific geographic area.

The business model is essentially that of a regional monopsony-coordinator: the SWV pools government resources, expertise, and decision-making authority across its member schools to provide coordinated educational support that no individual school board could efficiently provide alone. There is no go-to-market motion, no pricing model, no commercial product surface, and no revenue diversification — its value proposition is institutional and statutory rather than commercial, with the underlying 'technology' being limited to a website, Azure cloud hosting, Google Analytics, and the Indigo TLV-processing application.

Name

Samenwerkingsverband Passend Onderwijs VO Doetinchem e.o. 25-03

Legal name

Vereniging Samenwerkingsverband VO Doetinchem E.O.

Website

https://samenwerkingsverbanddoetinchem.nl

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Samenwerkingsverband Passend Onderwijs VO Doetinchem is a Dutch non-profit educational cooperative of 4 school boards that coordinates inclusive secondary education and TLV eligibility decisions for students across 5 municipalities in the Doetinchem region.

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Product category

Inclusive Education Coordination Services

NAICS

Educational Support Services (6117), Educational Support Services (611710), Business Associations (81391)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Inclusive Assessment & Testing Accommodations Support (EDAKABAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Special Education, Disability Support & Inclusive Education Nonprofits (BPAGADAH), Special Education & Inclusion Standards Authorities (EDADAEAI)

Keywords

• Inclusive secondary education
• Passend onderwijs coordination
• Special education placement
• Educational cooperative services
• Student support planning

Headquarters

HQ city

Doetinchem

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others

Core offering

The Samenwerkingsverband VO Doetinchem E.O. is a non-profit educational cooperative (Vereniging) that coordinates "passend onderwijs" (inclusive/appropriate secondary education) across 5 municipalities in the eastern Netherlands. It bundles financial resources, expertise, and knowledge from 4 member school boards to issue toelaatbaarheidsverklaring (TLV) eligibility declarations that allow students to access special secondary education (VSO) or practical education (PRO), and to allocate government funding for inclusive education support.

Product overview

Samenwerkingsverband VO Doetinchem E.O. is an educational consortium that coordinates inclusive (passend) secondary education across the Doetinchem region, comprising 4 school boards. The organization operates as a coordination and support services entity rather than a product company. Its core services include the Toewijzingscommissie (allocation committee) that issues admissibility certificates for special education, the Ondersteuningsplan (support plan) governing educational support strategy, the Ondersteuningsplanraad (participation council) for governance, and partnership management with municipalities, healthcare providers, and other educational institutions. The Indigo digital system is used internally for processing applications.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Toewijzingscommissie (Allocation Committee) - Toelaatbaarheidsverklaring An internal committee that reviews and issues toelaatbaarheidsverklaring (TLV) eligibility certificates required for students to access special secondary education (VSO) or practical education (PRO) schools. The committee evaluates applications, conducts hearings, and makes decisions on student placement.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Gemeenten (municipalities) in the regioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe organization collaborates with municipalities in the Doetinchem region on matters including youth care (jeugdzorg) deployment and enforcement of compulsory education (leerplicht). These partnerships ensure holistic support for students whose educational placement intersects with municipal responsibilities.
• Other samenwerkingsverbanden (cooperatives)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe organization coordinates with other regional samenwerkingsverbanden to manage student flows from primary to secondary education and from secondary to follow-up education (vervolgonderwijs), ensuring smooth transitions for students moving between educational regions.
• Zorgpartners (care partners)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCare partners are engaged when an educational placement is temporarily not suitable for a student, because the student would benefit more from treatment and/or temporary day care. This ensures that students receive coordinated educational and care support.
• Toewijzingscommissie (Allocation Committee)coreOthersAn internal committee within the samenwerkingsverband that reviews all TLV (toelaatbaarheidsverklaring / eligibility declaration) applications and issues decisions on student placements to VSO or practical education. The committee includes school representatives and meets according to a published schedule.
• Ondersteuningsplanraad (OPR) — Support Plan CouncilcoreOthersThe OPR is the formal participation body (medezeggenschapsraad) of the samenwerkingsverband, representing parents/guardians and school staff. It must approve the organization's support plan and acts as a critical friend, contributing to the quality and direction of passend onderwijs in the region.
• Samenwerkingsverband Slinge-BerkelminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as a second-opinion partner for the toewijzingscommissie. When a student or parent disagrees with a TLV decision, they can request a second opinion from this neighboring samenwerkingsverband.
• Samenwerkingsverband regio ZutphenminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as an alternative second-opinion partner for the toewijzingscommissie, providing external review of TLV decisions upon request.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Emerging players

• Siméa: Dutch sector organization for special-needs secondary education. Works at the intersection of policy, expertise, and practice for the VSO/PRO segment that the subject organization places students into via its Toewijzingscommissie.
• CED-groep: Dutch expertise and support provider focused on special needs education and youth care. Operates in the same inclusive-education domain as the subject organization, providing specialist services that complement (and partially substitute for) SWV-coordinated support.

Broad incumbents

• LECSO (Landelijk Expertise Centrum Speciaal Onderwijs): Dutch national association for special (secondary) education schools. While not a regional cooperative, it represents and supports the VSO/PRO schools that the subject organization's TLV process routes students into, making it a closely adjacent ecosystem player.
• VO-raad: National sector council for Dutch secondary education, representing school boards — including the four member boards of the subject organization. Provides the broader policy, funding, and advocacy context in which regional SWVs like this one operate.

Direct peers

• Samenwerkingsverband VO Amsterdam-Diemen: Large Dutch VO samenwerkingsverband operating under the same passend onderwijs framework. Same legal form (Vereniging), same TLV/allocation-committee structure, and same member-school-board composition, but serving an urban region.
• Samenwerkingsverband VO Haaglanden: Regional VO cooperative in The Hague area with identical legal mandate and operating model. Comparable in that it pools school-board resources to coordinate passend onderwijs and issue TLVs across multiple municipalities.
• Samenwerkingsverband PO Doetinchem: Primary-education counterpart cooperative covering the same Doetinchem region. Mirrors the subject organization's structure, governance, and member schools at the PO level, and coordinates with it on PO→VO student transitions.
• Samenwerkingsverband VO regio Zutphen: Adjacent regional VO cooperative in Gelderland serving a comparable mix of rural municipalities. Listed as an alternative second-opinion partner, indicating identical mandate, governance structure, and funding model.
• Samenwerkingsverband Slinge-Berkel: Neighboring Dutch regional VO samenwerkingsverband that operates under the same passend onderwijs legislation. Functions as a second-opinion partner for TLV decisions, making it structurally and operationally identical to the subject organization.

Regional players

• Samenwerkingsverband VO Nijmegen e.o. Regional VO cooperative operating in the neighboring Nijmegen area of Gelderland. Same passend onderwijs structure and member-board model, but serving a different (urban) geography adjacent to the subject's footprint.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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