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Broad, balanced and embedded:
challenges and starting points in developing wider family learning provision
| Date | Venue | Ref | Fee |
| Tue 30 Sep 03 | West Dean College, Chichester | C9-82/09/03 | £130 *includes lunch, tea and coffee) |
| Tue 7 Oct 03 | Foresight Centre, Liverpool | C9-83/09/03 | |
| Tue 14 Oct 03 | Swallow Hotel, Gateshead | C9-84/09/03 |
[Background & Aims] [Audience] [Programme]
Background
Family Learning provision figures significantly in a number of education and health initiatives, including adult and community learning, Sure Start, extended schools and family support. With its tradition of partnership working, its intergenerational reach, its focus on personal as well as skill development, and its use of pooled funding, Family Learning throws up many challenges for providers, practitioners and funding agencies.
One of the current challenges is that of developing a curriculum that is broad and responsive to the wide range of families’ needs and interests. This challenge is highlighted in the way that Family Learning provision is currently developing through two separate strands, one concerned with ‘family literacy, language and numeracy’ and the other with ‘wider family learning’ (that is, family learning activities and programmes that are not eligible for LSC funding through its family literacy, language and numeracy strand). The two strands are developing at different rates, with considerably more funding for family literacy, language and numeracy programmes than for wider family learning due to the former’s role in tackling adult basic skills needs. There is also greater support for developing the infrastructure of family literacy, language and numeracy, for example, through the Basic Skills Agency’s ‘Skills for Families’ initiative which is supporting pathfinder LEAs.
These regional conferences will give delegates the opportunity to address the challenge of developing Family Learning provision that is broad, balanced and embedded in local, regional and national infrastructure. The objectives are to:
 | Debate the key issues in developing wider family learning provision and clarifying its relationship to family literacy, language and numeracy. |
| Discuss the role of local and regional networks in developing and embedding wider family learning provision. |
| Explore, through presentations, a number of starting points and types of partnerships for developing wider family learning provision. |
| Identify the kind of support that would help LEAs and their partners to develop and embed wider family learning provision. |
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Audience
This conference will be of interest to family learning co-ordinators in LEAs and colleges, staff working in museums and galleries, Sure Start projects, pre-schools, schools, neighbourhood renewal projects, the voluntary sector and local LSCs.
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Programme
| 10:00 | Arrival and registration (tea/coffee available) |
| 10:30 | Welcome and introduction to the
day Chair: Local LSC Officer with responsibility for Family Learning |
| 10:40 | Keynote address ‘The challenge of developing wider family learning provision that is broad, balanced and embedded: an overview’ |
| 11:10 | Debating the issues: key questions for groups to address |
| 11:20 | Debating the issues (discussion groups) |
| 12:15 | Lunch |
| 13:15 | Presentations: ‘Starting points
for developing wider family learning provision and forming effective
partnerships’ (please indicate your choice on the booking form) 1) Building on learning practices in the home 2 Family learning and the neighbourhood renewal agenda 3) Linking to National Curriculum areas other than literacy and numeracy 4) Reaching families and family members new to learning |
| 14:30 | Findings from the morning’s group discussions |
| 14:45 | Plenary discussion led by panel: Setting the agenda for wider family learning |
| 15:15 | Close of conference (Tea/Coffee available) |
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