Key Organisations Involved in The Skills For Life Strategy
The Skills for Life Strategy Unit, based in the Department for Children, Schools and Families, is responsible overall for driving forward the Skills for Life strategy and ensuring efforts to improve basic skills are well co-ordinated. The Unit's priorities include:
- Improving the standards in and quality of teaching and learning
- Ensuring that provision is effectively planned and funded
- Managing the transition of responsibility for the delivery of work to partner organisations and the ongoing risks that this could pose to delivery
- Ensuring that provision is accessible to those from priority groups
- Engaging employers and continuing the development of high quality workplace learning
- Promoting the take up of numeracy qualifications and learning
- Improving the analysis of performance to highlight our fundamental role in the long term
skills agenda being considered as part of the Leitch Review.
The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) is the chief delivery partner, which through its network of 9 regional and 47 local councils is responsible for the planning and funding of post-16 vocational education and training. The LSC has led responsibility for delivering the adult skills PSA target. The LSC have responsibility for offender learning, and Jobcentre Plus clients.
The Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) was created by the Government as a component of the Learning and Skills Success for All programme, and following a merger between the Quality Improvement Agency and the Centre for Excellence in Leadership. The service aims to guide improvements in the Further Education (FE) sector.
Skills for Life is inspected against the common inspection framework by the Inspectorates: the Adult Learning Inspectorate (ALI) and OfSTED.
The Qualification and Curriculum Authority (QCA) leads on developing new qualifications and the associated standards and assessment models. Works with Awarding Bodies to ensure new qualifications are embedded.
CfBT Education Trust is a major contributor to the Government's Skills for Life strategy to raise the quality of teaching and learning in adult literacy, numeracy and language (ESOL) provision since 2001. CfBT has developed Skills for Life materials for Embedded Learning, supported Key Skills Support, and Subject Learning Coaches programmes, managed the Supporting Dyslexic Learners in Different Contexts programme, and managed the Skills for Life Quality Initiative programme on behalf of LSC. It now leads on the Skills for Life Improvement Programme on behalf of LSIS, runs the Sussex Skills for Life Development Centre, and conducts regular research on aspects of Skills for Life.
National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC) is dedicated to conducting research into adult literacy, numeracy, ESOL and ICT. Established and funded by the DfES.
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