LTCW - Other publications

Other Publications

This page contains links to a number of documents that have been published by a variety of organisations which relate to the learning and skills agenda. They have been arranged by the year in which they have been placed on the LTCW website, rather than necessarily the year in which they have been published.

If you have any suggestions as to any other documents that would be useful to place here please get in contact with us.

Documents placed on website in 2008

1.
Life Long Learning UK Workforce Strategy 2007 - 2012

This further education sector workforce strategy, the first of its kind, is intended to help shape the further education workforce of the future in England. By providing a national framework, it is intended to support all colleges and learning providers implement their own workforce plans to support the delivery of excellent provision for young people, adults and employers. It will help ensure that the skills development needs of all staff working within the further education sector are identified and that there is agreement within the wider further education system of the priorities for national action and investment which can help individiaul colleges and learning providers deliver locally. The Strategy can be accessed from this link.

2.
Policy Paper on the "Raising Expectations" White Paper

EDEXCEL has produced this policy briefing paper on the above White Paper realted to the changes of resourcing learning provision in England. The brifing points out the implications of the policy changes as the LSC is due to be wound up in 2010 and funding for 16 to 19 provision transferred to Local Authorities with funding for post 19 provision handled by the new Skills Funding Agency. The Policy Briefing can be accessed from this link

3.
Map showing Learning Consortia in England

NIACE have produced a map showing the location and stage of development of Learning Consortia across England.

The map can be accessed here. .

4.
National hubs joint publications guide now available

In April 2008, Capacitybuilders' investment at a national level refocused from the six National Hubs to nine National Support Service (NSS) workstreams. The Hubs were designed to improve the quality of support available to voluntary and community organisations and since their launch in 2006, their work has impacted thousands of organisations.

Work has been undertaken to ensure that the resources and assets funded through the ChangeUp programme remain available to the sector in the future. The National Hubs Joint Publications Guide pools together valuable hubs publications in one accessible place, and has been produced so organisations can benefit from a range of resources, long after the life of the hubs. The Joint Publications Guide is available from this link.

5.
The Economic Contribution of the Voluntary and Community Sector to the Economy of the North West

This is the first report of its kind in the North West outlining the contribution of the voluntary and community sector to the economy of the region. It has been produced by Voluntary Sector North West. (VSNW)

The report includes the size of the sector, both in terms of organisations and people employed both paid and as volunteers. It also includes information about the monetary value of the sector both in terms of turnover and contribution to the economy.

Key highlights for the sector in the region are

It is bigger than the Banking and Finance sector
it employs more people than the Manufacturing sector
it contributes £9bn to the regional economy

The Report was commissioned by Voluntary Sector North West with funding from Change Up.

An abridged version of the above report is now available for download. This abridged version includes all the key statistics about the size of the sector and its economic contribution, but does not include the detailed methodology, case studies, survey forms, etc. A more complete version including all this additional information will be available in the near future from the VSNW website. www.vsnw.org.uk/economic

The document can be accessed from this link to the VSNW website

Documents placed on website in 2007

1.
Social Enterprise Strategy 2007 to 2010 Published

Cheshire & Warrington Social Enterprise Partnership have published their Social Enterprise Strategy for 2007 to 2010. The Strategy sets out plans for the development of the number and range of Social Enterprises operational within the Cheshire & Warrington area. The strategy is now available from this link.

2.
Children & Young Peoples Workforce Development

At a Learning Network Meeting there was information shared related to children & young people workforce development.

The following documents have been made available which provide background information and further contacts on this topic:

1) Common Core of skills and knowledge for the children’s workforce, (published by DfES)
The consultation on the Green Paper, Every child matters, strongly supported the proposition that everyone working with children, young people and families should have a common set of skills and knowledge.

The DfES has worked with a partnership of service user, employer and worker interests to develop this Common Core of Skills and Knowledge. The prospectus sets out required knowledge and skills to practise at a basic level in six areas of expertise.

The Common Core reflects a set of common values for practitioners that promote equality, respect diversity and challenge stereotypes, helping to improve the life chances of all children and young people and to provide more effective and integrated services. It also acknowledges the rights of children and young people, and the role parents, carers and families play in helping children and young people achieve the outcomes identified in Every child matters.

The Government and partners who have endorsed the prospectus are looking to service managers to use the Common Core

The document can be accessed from this link

2) “Building the vision” developing and implementing local integratedchildren’s workforce strategies (Published by CWDC)
This document reports on a body of research which has looked locally, regionally and nationally at the ongoing work to develop local integrated children’s workforce strategies

The document has three target audiences:

those professionals and partners working at local and regional level.
those working at a national level and funders of CWDC, such as the Department for Education and Skills.
researchers and consultants involved in building local integrated children’s workforce strategies, with the objective of describing our research approach and findings, to help people engaged in similar activities in the future

Also conveyed is how the research process has created data generated to meet the needs of the local areas the CEDC are working with in the form of the revised web-based toolkit (www.cwdcouncil.org.uk/advice/index.htm )

The document can be accessed from this link

3) Induction Standards (Published by CWDC)
Following an extensive stakeholders consultation early in 2006 a set of Children, Young People and Families Workforce Development Council (CWDC) Induction Standards have been published, together with supporting materials for those involved in the first stage of implementation, which will be in children’s social care from September 2006 onwards.

These standards set out clearly what new workers should know, understand and be able to do within six months of starting work. They reflect what children and young people have told CWDC is most important to them about the people who work with them.

In addition to the standards themselves CWDC is publishing the following supporting documents at the same time.
> Guidance for social care workers
> Guidance for those responsible for new social care workers’ induction
These are available on the CWDC website at www.cwdcouncil.org.uk

This document can be accessedfrom this link.

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Documents placed on website in 2006

1.
Guide to measuring soft outcomes and distance travelled.
This guide has been produced by the Institute for Employment Studies to assist projects and organisations to understand and implement systems for recording soft outcomes and distance travelled. It offers a definition of these terms and prtesents different methods for recording soft outcomes and measuring 'distance travelled'. It has been written primarily for organisations running projects under the ESF Objective 3 Programme but it will be of interest to those projects working with target groups who are some distance from labour market participation.

The guide is intended to offer an introduction to soft outcomes and distance travelled and is not designed to be fully comprehensive, but will prove useful for the development of outcome monitoring systems for learners.It can be accessed through this link.

2.
First Steps in Quality
First steps in quality has been written by Charities Evaluation Services for individuals and organisations who are new or fairly new to quality. It is for trustees, staff and volunteers in small and medium-sized voluntary and community organisations who want to find out more about quality and the different quality systems available.

This booklet uses everyday language and gives you an introduction to quality and to the possible benefits of using a quality system. It will help you start thinking about the system best suited to your needs and circumstances and those of your users.

The booklet offers guidance on the following:

what quality and quality assurance mean

why quality matters to voluntary organisations

what systems are available

how to choose the right approach

how to get started - further help and information

The booklet can be accessed from this link.

3.
A Local Compact Workbook
This is a resource for people involved in taking their Local Compact forward, and has been published by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations. If you are a Compact worker, champion or Compact Group member then using this workbook can help make your Compact work and deliver. It is neither guidance or prescriptive. If anything demonstrates one size doesn’t fit all and celebrates localism, it’s a Local Compact.

Meeting the challenge of implementation
Government set an April 2005 deadline for all areas to be covered by a Local Compact, with all public bodies signed up. Today, most are still under 3 years old. England’s local authority areas now face the challenge of implementing the world’s first Local Compacts. It hasn’t been done before and it hasn’t been going on for long. Answers on how to do it are still emerging. This workbook gives you a window on local experience across England. It can help you to focus on the right questions.

Getting the most from the workbook
The workbook isn’t meant to be read from cover to cover. It is not an exhaustive resource. You may find updates and more issues on the Compact website which has a link on the right of this page.

Drawing on experience and learning from other areas
People in other local areas are working under the same national policy agenda, with fairly similar processes and experiences of working together. Yet each area is different. So you need to learn from elsewhere and from your own experience.

You can access the booklet from this link

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