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Lifelong learning

27 April 2018

Exploring the funding and support for apprentices with additional support needs

This research explores the effectiveness of funding to support apprentices with learning difficulties, disabilities or disadvantage.

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21 January 2018

The Learning, Work and Wellbeing Toolkit

This toolkit provides staff with practical tips and resources to support young adult carers to make informed choices about learning and work.

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22 July 2017

Traineeships – maximising progressions into apprenticeships and employment

Learning and Work Institute was commissioned by the Department for Education (DfE) to identify effective practice that enables young people to progress from a traineeship to an apprenticeship or employment.

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1 July 2017

Mid-Life Career Review

NIACE ran pilots holding career reviews that took a holistic approach to help adults take stock of where they are now and what they want to achieve in their working life.

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18 May 2017

Healthy, Wealthy and Wise: Report of the Northern Ireland Impact Forum

The Northern Ireland Assembly's draft Programme for Government proposed an outcomes-based approach in terms of delivery and an undertaking to work across departmental boundaries. The Northern Ireland Impact Forum welcomed this approach in its response.

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4 May 2017

Top tips for foster carers

These top tips are designed to help foster carers provide good support to the young people they look in relation to employment and learning.

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4 May 2017

The Really Useful Book of Learning and Earning (RUBLE) for Care Leavers

The RUBLE is for young adults (aged 16-25) in England who have recently left care, or are in the process of leaving care.

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4 March 2017

Localised approaches to supporting care leavers

This report highlights the critical success factors of existing local approaches, and includes case studies which have successfully developed effective models of support for care leavers.

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1 March 2017

Guidance on Recognising and Recording Progress and Achievement (RARPA)

Guidance on Recognising and Recording Progress and Achievement (RARPA) has been updated to support the expanding role of RARPA in quality assuring non-regulated provision under the Adult Education Budget.

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1 May 2016

The Really Useful Book of Learning and Earning (RUBLE) for Young Adult Carers – Third edition

RUBLE is aimed at young adults (aged 16-25) in England who are looking after somebody else. This third edition is full of new and up-to-date useful information about looking after your health and wellbeing, job hunting, housing, health services, learning, working and volunteering, and money management.

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