Helpful Links
General web sites
| Apprenticeship Service | www.apprenticeships.org.uk |
| Businesslink | www.businesslink.gov.uk |
| Careers Advice Service | www.advice-resources.co.uk |
| Chamber of Commerce | www.britishchambers.org.uk |
| Department for Business, Innovation and Skills | www.bis.gov.uk |
| Department for Children, Schools and Families | www.dcfs.gov.uk |
| Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills | www.dius.gov.uk |
| Department for Work and Pensions | www.dwp.gov.uk |
| Direct Gov | www.direct.gov.uk |
| HM Prison Service | www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk |
| Home Office | www.homeoffice.gov.uk |
| Improvement and Development Agency | www.idea.gov.uk |
| Jobcentre Plus | www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk |
| National Employer Service | www.nationalemployerservice.org.uk |
| National Probation Service | www.probation.homeoffice.gov.uk |
| Nextstep | www.nextstep.direct.gov.uk |
| NIACE | www.niace.org.uk |
| NIACE Offender Learning site | www.offenderlearning.net |
| NOMS | www.noms.homeoffice.gov.uk |
| NOMIS | www.nomisweb.co.uk |
| Sector Skills Councils | www.sscalliance.org/ |
| Skills Funding Agency | http://skillsfundingagency.bis.gov.uk/ |
| Train to Gain | www.traintogain.gov.uk |
| UK Commission for Employment and Skills | www.ukces.org.uk |
| Youth Justice Board (YJB) | www.youth-justice-board.gov.uk |
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South East Web sites |
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| Economic Partnerships | www.seeps.net/ |
| Nextstep South East | www.nextstepsoutheast.org.uk |
| SEEDA | www.seeda.co.uk |
| LSC IES Noticeboard | www.lsc.gov.uk/regions/SouthEast/whatwedo/Adult+learners/ Integrated+Employment+and+Skills.htm (This consists of a quarterly newsletter regarding Integrated Employment and Skills (IES)-related SE news items and links to resources such as the IES ‘Basically…’ documents and useful reports/websites) |
Reports
- Ambition 2020:World class skills and jobs for the UK http://www.ukces.org.uk/publications-and-resources/browse-by-title/ambition-2020-world-class-skills-and-jobs-for-the-uk
- In Work, better off http://www.dwp.gov.uk/welfarereform/in-work-better-off/in-work-better-off.pdf
- No one written off http://www.dwp.gov.uk/welfarereform/noonewrittenoff/noonewrittenoff-complete.pdf
- Opportunity, Employment & Progression http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/document/cm72/7288/7288.pdf
- Ready for work http://www.dwp.gov.uk/welfarereform/readyforwork/readyforwork.pdf
- Ready to Work, Skilled for Work http://dwp.gov.uk/welfarereform/skilled-for-work.asp
- Skills Strategy http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/skillsstrategy/
- South East Accord http://readingroom.lsc.gov.uk/lsc/SouthEast/South_East_Accord.pdf
- Tackling Worklessness http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/communities/tacklingworklessnessfinal
- The Employability Challenge http://www.ukces.org.uk/tags/employability-challenge-full-report
- The Learning Revolution http://www.dius.gov.uk/learningrevolution
- Work Skills http://dius.ecgroup.net/files/8-08-SK_hc.pdf
- World Class Skills http://www.ukces.org.uk/publications-and-resources/browse-by-title/ambition-2020-world-class-skills-and-jobs-for-the-uk
- UK Commision for Employment & Skills - Employability Skills Project: Review of Evidence of Best Practice in Teaching and Assessing Employability Skills June 2008 http://www.ukces.org.uk/upload/pdf/employability-skills-project-0608.pdf
• Basically… a suite of documents written using plain English techniques. Provides a simple overview of key terms used within the Integrated Employment and Skills arena and some specific South East information
Offender Learning documents and references
| Document | Key information | Page /para number |
| LSC : Adult Safeguarded Learning and First Steps – Funding Guidance 2009/10 | Personal and Community Development Learning Programme (PCDL) offer a range of locally negotiated courses aimed to enhance community skills. |
5-7 |
Family Literacy, Language and Numeracy (FLLN) for a range of short |
7 | |
| Wider Family Learning for adults and children learning together offered as an engagement activity leading to progression onto PDCL or FLLN programmes. |
7 | |
Neighbourhood Learning in Deprived Communities (NLDC) for local VCS to |
8 | |
| Informal Adult Learning for structures or unstructured adult learning. Details concerning The Learning Revolution funding via the Transformation Fund on http://www.dius.gov.uk/skills/engaging_learners/ informal_adults_learning/white_paper |
10 | |
| First Steps (FSP) confidence building type programmes aimed at Entry and Level 1 qualifications | 11 | |
| LSC: Funding Guidance 2009/10 v3.0June 2009 |
Apprenticeships – enhanced funding provision is available for first time entrants aged 19-24 who have been in custody prior to commencement of course will be funded at the 16-18 rates. Some limiting factors apply to individual circumstances. |
Page 28 para 100 |
| Learner Eligibility Guidance: lists the categories of learners entitled to full fee remission and includes offenders serving their sentence in the community. |
Page 45 para 178. | |
Family Programmes Guidance 2009/10. |
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| LSC: A framework for managing the balance and mix of provision (2007/08). February 2007. | National Funding Priorities c Manage the commitment from the public purse (or from waived tuition fees) for lower priority provision and for learners who can afford to pay more. d Stop funding for certain types of provision |
Page 5 para 15 |
| LSC: Funding Guidance 2008/09: Principles, Rules and Regulations | States expectation upon all providers to increase the range of courses for offenders, that offenders needs should be mainstreamed and that an enhanced funding stream will exist for some offenders (para290). |
Page 34 Para 282-302 |
References:
HM Government. Home Office. A Five Year Strategy for Protecting the Public and Reducing Re-offending. February 2006. ISBN 0-10-167172-5
DCFS/MOJ/YJB. The Learning Journey for young people placed by the Youth Justice Board in Young Offender Institutions. September 2008.
LSC: Fact Sheet – Entry to Employment (E2E) National Young Offenders Pilot. August 2006. Publication Reference : LSC-P-NAT-060482
LSC: A framework for managing the balance and mix of provision (2007/08). February 2007. Publication reference: LSC-P-NAT-070035
LSC: Adult Safeguarded Learning and First Steps – Funding Guidance 2009/10
LSC: Funding Guidance 2008/09: Learner Eligibility Guidance. April 2008. Publication Reference LSC-P-NAT-080079.
LSC: Funding Guidance 2008/09: Principles, Rules and Regulations. April 2008.
LSC: Who gets fee remission? An analysis of FE fee remission by social group: An update. July 2008. Publication reference LSC-P-NAT-080132.
LSC: Learner Support Programme Discretionary Funding Guidance and Requirements 2009/10. May 09. Publication Reference LSC-P-NAT-090113
LSC: Developing the Offenders’ Learning and Skills Service: the Prospectus. September 2007