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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.

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

CROW-Centre for Research into the Older Workforce

Evidencing the impact

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

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.

 1 January 2007 - 31 December 2009

IMPACT

The IMPACT project addressed issues which prevent migrants attaining employment at the same rate and level as EU nationals.  This was a transnational partnership project of agencies from five EU countries: Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK.

 31 December 2008 - 30 June 2010

Independent Literacy Inquiry

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

NIACE is co-ordinating an independent Inquiry into Adult and Youth Literacy in England, which employers, policy-makers, practitioners and learners have been invited to submit evidence to.

 8 September 2010 - 8 September 2011

LSIS Skills and Employer Responsiveness Project

NIACE, working with the 157 Group and Association of Learning Providers, are managing the delivery of this programme across the East Midlands, West Midlands and the East of England.  NIACE is focusing particularly on managing the delivery of Strand 3 of the programme - Pre-employment:  Getting People into Work, and is working with a range of sector providers to achieve this delivery outcome.

NEET national research project

NIACE was invited by LSIS to develop a national research project, involving colleges and other learning providers, to look at attitudes and experiences of adults and young people who are currently, or have recent experience of, not being engaged in education, employment or training (NEET).

 15 February 2010 - 31 December 2010

RUBLE

The Really Useful Book of Learning and Earning 2010 (RUBLE) is designed to support people experiencing mental health difficulties who wish to return to or take up work, volunteering or learning.

Steps to Success

The Steps to Success project was designed to support economically inactive or long term unemployed people from disadvantaged communities in Leicester to gain skills and find employment in the retail sector

 1 February 2007 - 31 March 2008

Training for unemployed adult learners

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has commissioned NIACE to undertake exploratory research into the provision of training for unemployed adults to identify practice that is both effective for learners and helpful in supporting providers adjusting to the new approach outlined in the Government's Skills Strategy, 'Skills for Sustainable Growth', BIS (2010).

 14 February 2011 - 31 March 2013

Workforce Equality in FE

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

To create and disseminate a resource for post-16 learning and skills providers to promote recruitment of staff with mental health difficulties.

 1 September 2009 - 31 March 2010
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