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Skills for Life Providers are:
- Colleges
- Independent organisations, including private Training Providers
- Adult & Community Learning Centres
- Voluntary and community groups
They teach adults literacy, numeracy and ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages).
For a list of Providers in the South West that offer literacy, numeracy and ESOL courses in your area, please click here.
Professional Development
Some Providers also offer training for SfL practitioners at Levels 2, 3 & 4.
The Professional Development for Skills for Life Teachers page offers information on becoming a SfL tutor and continuing professional development.
The Learning and Skills Improvement Service offers The Skills for Life Improvement Programme which aims to help you and your organisation improve learner success through a whole organisation approach to embedding literacy, language and numeracy. Now in its third year the Improvement Programme builds on the successes of the previous years and is focused where support is most needed and on numeracy.
Excellence Gateway
The Excellence Gateway is now hosting the adult core curriculum in literacy, numeracy, ESOL and the pre-entry curriculum framework.
Are you a Skills for Life provider looking for free assessment tools?
The Government funded "Tools Library" assessment tools are now available on the Excellence Gateway website and can be downloaded here.
Family Literacy, Language and Numeracy (FLLN)
Support for FLIF/FLLN beyond August 2009
A new Skills for Life programme, the Skills for Life Support Programme, will be launched at the beginning of September and the new contract will encompass the Family Literacy, Language and Numeracy development activity. Providers wishing to find out more about support from September are advised in the meantime to contact Kelly Shanmugam or Faye Brown at LSIS.
Their contact details are:
Kelly Shanmugam:
Telephone: 024 7662 7933
E-mail: kelly.shanmugam@lsis.org.uk
Faye Brown
Telephone: 024 7662 7931
E-mail: faye.brown@lsis.org.uk
Visit the Skills for Families website for the latest on the programme and resources to support the delivery of FLIF (Family Learning Impact Fund) and other FLLN programmes: www.skillsforfamilies.co.uk
Useful LSC Factsheets for Skills for Life Providers
Factsheet 8 - Delivering Embedded Literacy, Language (English for Speakers of Other Languages -ESOL), and numeracy in post-16 vocational programmes (September 2007)
Factsheet 9 - Recording Skills for Life Provision (updated May 2009)
Factsheet 10 - ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) at Work (November 2007)
Factsheet 11 - Ensuring learners with literacy and language learning needs are placed on the most appropriate provision (October 2007)
Factsheet 12 - Skills for Life provision within Train to Gain from 2008/09 (September 2008)
Factsheet 13 - Initial Assessment for Skills for Life including delivery in Train to Gain (July 2009)