Where next for family learning?

[Background] [Aims] [Outcomes] [Audience] [Programme] [Event Information] [Application Conditions]

Background

This is the second of two BIS family learning seminars. The first family learning seminar was held in October 2011. BIS have used delegate feedback to inform emerging family learning policy.

The first BIS family learning seminar was designed to support the Government's review of Informal Adult and Community Learning (IACL). The publication of New Challenges, New Chances - Further Education and Skills System Reform Plan: Building a World Class Skills System, in December 2011, introduced a major new dimension to this work, namely BIS's intention to pilot 'community learning trust' models to lead the planning and funding of local provision.

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Aims

This second family learning seminar will engage delegates in how policy is shaping up and provide an opportunity to contribute to policy thinking as BIS develops the 'community learning trust' prospectus announced for Spring 2012.

The specific objectives for the seminar are to:

• consider the implications of the practical development of 'community learning trusts'
• consider the types of partnerships that family learning engages with, or might want to engage with
• update delegates on developing family learning policy and seek feedback from delegates around specific family learning issues
• consider the position of family learning programmes in the context of wider Government family-focused policies
• enable a two-way discussion around developing innovative and inclusive approaches to the local delivery of family and intergenerational learning and their key roles in building the Big Society and localism .

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Outcomes

By the end of the event, delegates will:

• be informed of government plans around emerging family learning policy and the new Community Learning Trusts
• have had an opportunity to input into emerging policy around family learning
• have had the opportunity to share practice and develop ideas with colleagues.

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Audience

• Policymakers
• Delivery managers and senior practitioners from organisations with an interest in family learning
• Family learning providers including local authority and voluntary sector
• Representatives from schools and children's centres with a responsibility for family learning.

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Programme 

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 Event Information

• Arrival and registration is at 10:30 am for an 11am start. The event will end with tea at 3pm
• This event is free
• Places will be allocated in order of receipt of completed online application forms (one online application form per person)
• Participants should be prepared to take their own notes as there will not be handouts for all sessions
• If you have not received an e-mail confirming your attendance and joining instructions 4 working days before the event please contact: events@niace.org.uk

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Application Conditions

• Event date: Monday 20 February 2012
• Closing date: Thursday 9 February 2012
• Substitutions are to be advised 5 working days prior to the event
• A 15 working days notice period is required for provision of electronic note-takers, sign language interpreters and transcription to Braille
• Places are to be reserved online - scroll up and click on Apply Now
• Reservations by telephone cannot be accepted
• Application forms are individually acknowledged by e-mail. Joining instructions, including map and directions, will be e-mailed out one week before the event
• NIACE reserves the right to reject applicants who are not from the target audience list.

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