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What is Skills for Life
The national Skills for Life programme has been developed to ensure that literacy, language and numeracy skills are developed to the level to enable all employees to get the job done, improve performance and increase profitability. Research shows that of the 23 million adults at work in England, approximately 3 million have poor levels of literacy and 9 million poor levels of numeracy.
In Greater Merseyside, the problem is particularly acute. Over 22% of all adults of working age have gained no qualifications at all.
For the average Merseyside business this is likely to mean that 1 in 7 of its employees have no qualifications.
The Learning and Skills Council’s Skills for Life programme can help your business to make basic skills training an integral part of the job. From identifying the signs of a lack of basic skills in your workforce, to preparing the courses themselves, to helping staff thrive in their new “training culture” – Skills for Life can give your business a whole new perspective on training.
Through the SkillWorks, we can find you a training partner, who will help you identify individual needs and find specialised solutions. We recognise that there needs to be flexible delivery. Often people who have gaps in their skills can attend short booster courses and, in many cases, the essential skills can be built into other training programmmes – for example health and safety, quality control, presentation skills, telephone skills. For a list of the specialist Skills for Life training partners available click here.
100% funding of the cost of developing your employees’ essential literacy, language and numeracy skills is available to all Greater Merseyside employers.
