All Equality and Diversity Projects

Race into learning

This project looks at some of the issues faced by adults from Black and Minority Ethnic Communities (BME) experiencing mental health difficulties in accessing, progressing and achieving in learning. 

This information will be used to develop a guidance pack for Community Development Workers, Support Workers, Carers, Mentors and others offering support to BME adults within the mental health care system.

Ealing ESOL

ESOL for the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT)

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.

Understanding Direct Payments

Many adults, including people with mental health difficulties are motivated to return to adult learning by interest in, and necessity to learn about something of direct relevance to their lives.

As a means by which people can take greater control over the support they receive, the social care personalisation agenda can provide that "hook" that enables individuals to take the first step back into adult learning and from which they can be signposted on to other opportunities if they wish.

MHFA in work-based learning

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

The project is funding staff from Work-based Learning (WBL) providers in the South West to undertake Mental Health First Aid Instructor training. On completion of the training these staff will deliver the 2 day MHFA training to staff, learners and employers involved in their provision. In this way mental health awareness will be cascaded and embedded within the organisation.

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.

NWFEproject

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

Many young people who experience emotional and psychological distress may not have disclosed their difficulties to health services and have not received a diagnosis, or do not use conventional names to label their distress.  Similarly, they may not disclose any such difficulties on enrolment with a learning provider.  As a result, the 'real levels of emotional and psychological distress' in young people may be higher than those suggested by official statistics.  As trusted adults within learning providers can often be the ones that young people turn to for support in the first instance, some exploration into the experiences of young people and their learning providers was needed.  The North West LSC, being aware of the region's particular needs around mental health, and also having concern about the FE drop-out rates at age 16 and 17, provided funding for this project to take place.

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.

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.