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Skills for Life Improvement Programme SKILLS FOR LIFE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMME Skills for Life Awareness Raising

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Page 1: Skills for Life Improvement Programme SKILLS FOR LIFE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMME Skills for Life Awareness Raising

Skills for LifeImprovement Programme

SKILLS FOR LIFE

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMME

Skills for Life Awareness Raising

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Skills for LifeImprovement Programme

 Aim:To increase your awareness of Skills for Life

Objectives:

identify what is meant by Skills for Life

be aware of the national Skills for Life strategy

identify some barriers to learning that might hinder adults improving their literacy, language and numeracy (LLN) skills

recognise where adults need to use literacy and number skills in work, training and everyday life

recognise the impact of the lack of LLN skills in the workplace

discuss one form of LLN skills assessment

consider what provision is available to support adults to improve their LLN skills

draw up an action plan, which begins to address the LLN skills issues in their workplace.

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Skills for LifeImprovement Programme

What are Skills for Life?

“The ability to read, write and speak in English/Welsh and to use mathematics at a level necessary to function and progress at work and in society in general.”

Basic Skills Agency

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Skills for LifeImprovement Programme

Scale of the Problem - Recap

Approx 5.2 million adults have literacy levels below Level 1 & 14.9 million have numeracy skills below this level (last SfL survey 2003)

74% of the prison population have literacy and numeracy skills below level 1

Those with poor skills are more likely to be unemployed and to live in substandard housing

Those with poor skills are also more likely to have poor physical and mental health

Poor literacy/numeracy skills are intergenerational – there is a cycle of poor skills

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Skills for LifeImprovement Programme

History of Development

1970s – On the Move

1999 – Sir Claus Moser – ‘A Fresh Start’

2001 – Skills for Life Strategy (England & Wales)o Target numbers for adults with improved LLN skillso Developments needed to be able to achieve this.

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Skills for LifeImprovement Programme

Achievements so far

Since 2001: 4.7 million adults have started literacy,

language and numeracy courses Over 1.5 million learners have achieved

Skills for Life qualifications (2007 target) 1,619 000 learners have achieved their

first Skills for Life qualification (including 138,000 offenders)

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Skills for LifeImprovement Programme

Targets to 2010

Improve the literacy, language and numeracy skills of 2.25 million adults

Reduce by at least 40 per cent the number of adults in the workforce who lack NVQ 2 or equivalent qualifications

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Skills for LifeImprovement Programme

Useful Websites

• www.sflip.org.uk

• www.dfes.gov.uk/readwriteplus

• www.basic-skills.org.uk

• www.dfes.gov.uk/readwriteplus/embeddinglearning

• www.skillsforlifenetwork.com