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 Skills for Life delivery in the youth sector |
Project Status: Completed
YALP was very pleased to work with Tribal CTAD on a short project to research and identify successful models of Skills for Life delivery in the Youth Sector, and identify barriers to engagement and achievement.
Young adults are one of the key Skills for Life priority groups, and it is vital that the Youth sector are supported to develop strategies to engage young adults on the margins of education, training and employment and help them to improve their literacy, language and numeracy skills.
The Leitch Review recognises how vital effective education for young adults is to the new 2020 ambition to make the UK a world leader in skills. School standards have improved over the past decade, with more young people than ever achieving five good GCSEs. However, more than one in six young people leave school experiencing difficulties with reading, writing and using number.
The Times newspaper has recently reported that there are 1.24m young adults in Britain, between the ages of 15-24, who are not in education, work or training. This clearly has a social impact as statistics show that young adults who leave school with no qualifications are more likely to end up in prison. They are also likely to live in deprivation and become increasingly disengaged from the rest of society, making them even harder to reach. This could potentially have a knock-on effect both in terms of reaching the ‘world class skills’ ambitions set out in the Leitch review, and increasing economic growth in the UK.
This project was a scoping exercise aimed at identifying successful youth work practices in engaging young adults in literacy, numeracy and language in a way which motivates them to succeed. It made recommendations about the training needs of youth work staff in facilitating delivery of literacy, numeracy and language in youth work settings and how Skills for Life can be embedded into youth work activities in such a way that would maintain youth works unique approach to young people.
The project ran between February and April 2007, and included:
 | Case studies of youth services offering Skills for Life provision for young adults |
| Research into the training needs of youth work staff involved in Skills for Life, through online consultation and focus groups |
| Adaptation of the Skills for Life framework for the youth services. |
Work commenced through this project is now being continued through the QIA project Extending the Research, Improving the Quality of FLLN.
For further information, please contact Bethia McNeil, bethiam@nya.org.uk
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Looking Forward to Thursdays: Effective learning for young adults with mental health difficulties |
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Success factors in informal learning: young adults’ experiences of literacy, language and numeracy |
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Skills for Life delivery in the youth sector |
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