All Family Learning Projects

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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.

Financial Literacy and Family Learning in Children's Centres

A Load of Dosh

Families, learning, impact and the national agendas

Money Matters To Me

Health and Families

The Health and Family Learning project (PoHeFa) is a project funded by the EU Second programme of community action in the field of health (2008-2013), which focuses on the aim to improve people's health security, promote health and generate and disseminate health information and knowledge.  The project is led and administered by the South Denmark partnership and involves regional partners from 6 different EU countries:

South Denmark (University College South, South Denmark European Office and Langeland Municipality)

South West, UK (National Institute of Adult Continuing Education and South West Strategic Health Authority)

Sleswig Holstein in Germany (Heinrich Böll Stiftung and Landesvereinigung für Gesundheitsförderung)

Finland (Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences)

Cyprus (University of Cyprus)

Italy (Regione Abruzzo)

Families, learning and progression

This is an ongoing programme of work examining and facilitating the development of progression within and from family learning.  It interconnects with work on evidencing the impact of family learning.

East of England Local Authority Adult Learning Curriculum Networks

NIACE convenes four curriculum networks for curriculum managers in local authority adult learning services in the East of England.   These are:

  • Family Learning
  • Skills for Life
  • Staff Development
  • Learning Difficulties and Disabilities.

Making the case for family learning

In light of the government's Comprehensive Spending Review and reduced spending throughout the public and voluntary sectors, providers are having to make the case for continued funding and delivery of family learning services.

Independent Literacy Inquiry

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.

Making the Connection

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

This project, which ran from 2007-09, brought together mental health organisations, family learning practitioners and the voluntary and community sector (VCS) to build partnerships, as well as developing good practice to promote positive mental health to adults engaged in family learning. It resulted in a resource pack for adult and family learning and mental health practitioners.

 1 April 2007 - 31 March 2009

Family learning to employment

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

This ESF-funded project, which ran from April to October 2007, provides materials and case studies demonstrating how family learning can lead to employment and community enrichment.

 1 April 2007 - 31 October 2007

Family learning and parenting

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

This project links parenting skills and family learning to develop a best practice programme in children's centres, using a multi-agency approach.  Funded by John Lyon's Charity, it builds on work that NIACE has been involved in since 2007 on linking family learning with the parenting agenda and Every Child Matters.

 1 August 2007 - 31 March 2010

Intergenerational access to informal learning

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

This research project examined the use of intergenerational learning (including wider family learning) to provide access to informal adult learning.  Commissioned by DIUS, it built on work already completed by NIACE on family learning and on older learners.

 1 December 2008 - 30 April 2009

Stimulating Demand for Learning

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

Working with learning providers and a range of other partners to implement specific strategies aimed at increasing demand for learning by people with mental health difficulties. Pilot sites across the 9 regions consist of one or more learning or service providers and a range of other partners, to form strong and effective local partnerships that are able to encourage and support people with mental health difficulties into learning.

 1 April 2009 - 31 March 2010

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. 

The Network runs the Big Impact Project which is funded by the BASIS Big Lottery Fund until 2012. The Big Impact Project offers infrastructure support for voluntary and community sector family learning projects and their partners England-wide. 

 1 August 2009 - 1 August 2012

Early literacy acquisition

This is a research project, led by NRDC, for the European Commission.  It looks at various programmes across Europe that aim to assist parents of disadvantaged families to support their children's reading literacy in the early years.

 1 January 2010 - 1 February 2011

Museums, libraries and archives

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

Working with the Museum, Libraries and Archives Council, this project supports the development of family learning in museums, libraries and archives.  It builds on collaborative work that NIACE has been engaged in with the sector since 2007.

 1 February 2010 - 31 May 2010

Learning & Refugee Families (LARF)

Working over three years, the purpose of the project is to develop and deliver family learning provision for refugee women and their children.  We will also provide information, advice and guidance to refugee women who wish to become foster carers.

 1 July 2010 - 30 June 2013

Working strategically with MLA

This project builds on NIACE and the Museum Libraries and Archives Council's England-wide work developing networking and delivering training on family learning in museums, libraries and archives.  Focusing on the North East and Yorkshire and Humber regions, networking events provide a shared forum for local authority family learning staff and museum, libraries and archives sector staff with case study exchange to support curriculum development and best practice.

 1 July 2010 - 28 February 2011