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We offer support and strategic advice to the UK Government, Regional Development Agencies and Local Learning and Skills Councils.

Experience

Our team has extensive experience of:

• audit and analysis of learning needs 
• teaching workforce audits 
• identifying expertise gaps, levels of qualification and capacity for growth and expansion
• feasibility studies 
• developing effective strategy and delivery plans for learning and skills
• establishing workplace programmes 
• supporting work-based learning providers in Skills for Life capacity building 
• auditing provision and developing strategies for disabled learners 
• setting up professional development and resource centres 
• ongoing consultancy in basic and key skills 
• support for the education services within prisons 
• mapping of programmes to the basic skills core curricula 
• consultation on educational issues relating to regeneration 
• consultation on educational issues relating to community cohesion 
• development of materials for Awarding Bodies.

Tailored programmes

We are experienced in workshop and conference delivery, and can tailor material to meet clients’ needs. Over the past six months, we have organised training or briefing events for internal staff and/or providers in eight local LSC areas. The format and content of the training is agreed with the client and customised in each case. Staff attending training events have come from all areas of LSC work, from workforce development to data and information systems.

Workshop and conference content

The events have included instruction and activities on:

• raising basic skills awareness 
• implications of the delivery plan for teams 
• specific workforce development issues: 
  - what motivates employers 
  - what models 
  - what works 
• basic skills quality issues
  - CIF and Inspection Grades
  - BSQI
  - BSA Quality Mark
• impact of delivery plan on provider plans
• making sense of the data
• case study problem-solving sessions.