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The NIACE Centre for the Learning Family will be a web-based centre of expertise, bringing together NIACE's work around adult learning and families, together with current research, policy and practice.   It exists to promote the message that:

Strong families and communities need adults and children with confidence and skills

The Centre aims to:

  • Develop new and innovative thinking about the role of learning in the family
  • Shape and inform policy and practice around adult learning and the family
  • Become an expert-led beacon of knowledge and innovation for practice and research around the Learning Family, including the family learning approach

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NIACE believes that a positive learning culture in a family helps to reverse intergenerational cycles of poverty and worklessness. A 'Learning Family' where both adults and children are learning, and sharing their learning, where adults are working and learning, where children are encouraged in their learning, is a strong, self-sufficient family, able to participate positively in their community.

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Current activities

Family Learning Inquiry

The NIACE Centre for the Learning Family Inquiry into Family Learning in England and Wales is gathering new evidence, generating new thinking, and influencing public policy around family learning. It will report its findings and recommendations in June 2013.

Family Learning Local Authority Group 

NIACE provides support to the Family Learning Local Authority Group (FLLAG), a peer-organised consortium of local authority family learning managers and co-ordinators.

National Family Learning Network

The National Family Learning Network is an alliance of three leading family learning organisations - NIACE, Campaign for Learning and ContinYou - and is a support network for over 9,500 Practitioners who work with an estimated 5 million families each year.  

Training

Training in Learning and Families

NIACE, through the Centre for the Learning Family, offers a range of Continuing Professional Development and training opportunities in family learning for practitioners and managers in all sectors who are offering, or thinking of offering family learning.

Publications

Resources and publications on learning and families 

NIACE offers a large range of publications and resources for practitioners and managers delivering learning for families.

Research

NIACE's work is based on and contributes to the field of national and international research on learning and families.

NIACE Research

BASIC SKILLS AGENCY-Family Literacy Works.pdf
NIACE-Evaluation of the North West Museum Hub Family Learning Initiatives.pdf
NIACE-Family Literacy and Numeracy in Prisons.pdf
NIACE-Family Numeracy.pdf
NIACE-FL Impact Funding Programmes.pdf
NIACE-Impact of Wider Family Learning.pdf
NIACE-Providing the Evidence The Impact of Wider Family Learning 2009.pdf
NIACE-Social Value of Adult Learning for Children and Young People's Services.pdf

External Research

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS-Early Parenthood Education.pdf
BIS-Evidence of the Wider Benefits of FL.pdf
DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION-Good Practice in Parental Engagement.pdf
ELIZABETH JARMAN FOUNDATION - The Communication Friendly Spaces Approach.pdf
FAMILY & PARENTING INSTITUTE-Local Spending on Children's Service in Austerity.pdf
GRAHAM ALLEN MP-Early Years Intervention.pdf
ISTE-Leardership for Education in New Zealand.pdf
JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION-How Reduce the Educational Gap.pdf
LLAKES- Impact of Pre School Education.pdf
NRDC-A Review of the Research Literature in FL.pdf
OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS-Children's Well Being 2012.pdf
SKILLS FUNDING AGENCY-Funding Rule 2012_2013.pdf
THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD-Impact of the REAL Project.pdf
THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD-Overview of the REAL Project.pdf

If you have any research that you think will be of interest to people in the field please contact Audrey@niace.org.uk

 

 

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Policy

Events

Publications

Campaigns

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