All Disabled Learners Projects

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Quality Improvement Agency (QIA) Skills for Life Improvement Programme

Involving learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities

NIACE Articles on the Foundation Learning Tier

Work with Lifelong Learning UK

Travel Assessment Guidelines

Moving into Work

Enabling Declaration

Levels of declaration of mental health difficulties by learners and staff are low. The project explores practice within a range of settings that will enable and support people to declare, knowing that their needs will be met.

Evidencing the impact

This programme of work brings together evidence of the impact of family learning on parents and carers, families and communities.  The material has been collected from a variety of projects that NIACE has been involved in, and interconnects with the work we have been carrying out on progression in and from family learning.

Person-centred Planning and Approaches staff development course.

NIACE, the Valuing People support team, and Helen Sanderson Associates have developed a four-day training programme for providers in the learning and skills sector on person-centred planning and approaches. The course aims are to provide training in the use of person-centred thinking tools and approaches and to offer practical support to develop the use of these tools and approaches in the adult learning context.

Plastic Forks

This Learning and Skills (LSC) funded research project explored how colleges and learning providers involve disabled learners in decision making, in order to make recommendations as to how the National Learner Panel might better include disabled learners across England in decision making regarding learning and skills policy.

A Job Well Done

A Job Well Done was an exploratory research project commissioned by the Young People's Learning Agency (YPLA) looking into how social enterprises support disabled people and how social enterprises interface with the learning and skills sector.

Making it Work

This project was completed on 31 March 2010. Details about the project and the follow on Making it Work courses can be found below.

Project report

This was a two year project to develop a book and supporting training session for learning providers working with people with learning difficulties to embed supported employment approaches in vocational education and training.

 1 April 2008 - 31 March 2010

Boosting WBL Provision

This project has now finished. We've left it here for reference.

This project has worked with a range of work based learning (WBL) providers: colleges, private providers, local authority, voluntary and NHS organisations to find ways of increasing the quantity and quality of the provision that is offered to learners with mental health difficulties.

 1 April 2009 - 31 March 2010

The Enhancement of Learning Support

This project has now finished. We've left it here for reference.

This project, being undertaken by Natspec on behalf of LSIS (Learnign and Skills Improvement Service), is designed to improve the quality and management of learning support for learners with additional needs across the FE sector. The initial phase is to identify sector needs, scope existing work and expertise in this area and produce recommendations for programme of training and development.

 16 February 2010 - 5 March 2010