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Essential Skills Awareness

Essential Skills Awareness. Job Centre Plus Advisers. Learning outcomes. To understand what is meant by ‘essential skills’ and what level of ability this means To be aware of the scale of need, nationally To be aware of the impact of poor essential skills on the individual

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Essential Skills Awareness

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  1. Essential Skills Awareness Job Centre Plus Advisers essential skills professional development and resource centre

  2. Learning outcomes • To understand what is meant by ‘essential skills’ and what level of ability this means • To be aware of the scale of need, nationally • To be aware of the impact of poor essential skills on the individual • To consider your role in supporting essential skills development, including screening and referral • To consider ways in which you can positively ‘sell’ basic skills development to clients essential skills professional development and resource centre

  3. What are ‘essential skills’? • ‘The ability to read, write and speak in English and to use mathematics at a level necessary to function and progress at work and in society in general. In other words, essential skills are: reading, writing, speaking and listening and number.’ • IT became a ‘basic skill’ in 2003 essential skills professional development and resource centre

  4. Skills for Life Strategy • Strategy launched in 2001 to address the issues discovered in the national survey • 7 billion spent by Government so far • ‘Gremlins’ campaign has been one of the key strategies in getting adults to consider any skills gaps they might have. essential skills professional development and resource centre

  5. The levels Key skills/NVQ Level 5 Level 4 National Curr Essential skills Level 3 GCSE (A-C) Level 2 Level 2 NC Level 4/5 Level 1 Level 1 NC Level 3 Entry 3 NC Level 2 Entry 2 NC Level 1 Entry 1 essential skills professional development and resource centre

  6. Very low skills – entry1/2 BOB DYLAN Appearing at the BIRMINGHAM NEC on 29TH November 2003 at 7.30 pm Tickets: £35.00 £40.00. £50 90p 75p How much change from £2.00? essential skills professional development and resource centre

  7. Low skills – entry 3/level 1 SALE ONE THIRD OFF SUITS 10% OFF JACKETS For children over 12 and adults take two 5 ml doses three times a day. essential skills professional development and resource centre

  8. Level 2 numeracy skills • The sandpit is round with a radius of 1.5m and a depth of 0.2m. • What is the volume of sand needed to fill the sandpit? • 0.18m3 • 1.35m3 • 1.80m3 • 6.75m3 • Question from the Level 2 National Test essential skills professional development and resource centre

  9. Functional literacy and numeracy What literacy and or numeracy skills did you use from getting up this morning to arriving at work? essential skills professional development and resource centre

  10. The role of Job Centre Plus • Screening of all clients • Foundation Employability (Entry 1-2) and Employability Skills Programme (Entry 3-Level 2) • Basic Skills training through New Deal (18-24) • Referral to relevant training providers essential skills professional development and resource centre

  11. What can you do? • You play a crucial role as a ‘frontline worker’ in engaging adults who may have difficulties with literacy, language and numeracy. • You could make all the difference, in terms of encouraging them to talk about their skills and thinking about what might be the right path for them. • Advisers are in different job roles with different clients – so the approach may vary. essential skills professional development and resource centre

  12. Adviser roles How do the clients differ in terms of their background, abilities and priorities, in your particular adviser area? What might be their barriers to learning? And their strengths or motivations? • New Deal • New Claimants • Lone Parents • Restart • Incapacity Benefit and Disability essential skills professional development and resource centre

  13. Screening informally: spotting the signs • Avoidance strategies • Asking a friend • Getting aggressive or frustrated when asked about skills • Arriving late or missing appointments • Being unsure about time • Difficulty filling in forms essential skills professional development and resource centre

  14. Bringing up the subject • Treat essential skills just like any other training need, in a matter of fact way • Don’t use the words ‘basic skills’ • Talk about ‘improving skills’ rather than ‘problems’ “It’s your right to learn and not your fault you need to develop your skills…” “Adult programmes are different from school…” “These other JCPlus customers have had success…” essential skills professional development and resource centre

  15. Turn negative comments around “Basic Skills sounds really babyish!” “My English is too bad – they couldn’t help me!” “Assessment? Sounds like a test to me…I’m not doing that! What else might a client say? essential skills professional development and resource centre

  16. Useful websites • Read Write Plus – Skills for Life www.dfes.gov.uk/readwriteplus • Skills for Life Improvement Programme www.sflip.org.uk • National Research Development Centre www.nrdc.org.uk • National Skills for Life Survey 2003 www.nao.org.uk/publications/nao_reports/04-05/040520.pdf essential skills professional development and resource centre

  17. Essential Skills Professional Development and Resource Centre www.warwick.ac.uk/go/esc S.Hattersley@warwick.ac.uk essential skills professional development and resource centre

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