Case Study Peripatetic Outreach Project

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Case StudyPeripatetic Outreach Project

• Annie Williams
• Workers Education Association
• (Wales)

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Aims and Objectives

• Aims
• to provide learning and support for hard to reach
  learners in rural communities.
• Objectives
• to encourage community participation in the
  re-engagement of excluded learners
• to offer tailor-made programmes to suit the
  needs of disadvantaged learners
• to work in partnership with other providers and
  agencies
• to provide independent and impartial
  advice, guidance and support
• to offer progression routes

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Beneficiaries

• - labour market returners
• - people living in disadvantaged communities and
  isolated areas
• - carers
• - people in need of additional learning support
• - lone parents
• - people with disabilities those aged over 50
  looking for paid or unpaid work

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Partnerships

• Led by Coleg Harlech
• 3 further education colleges (Llandrillo, Menai
  and Meirion Dwyfor)
• Bangor University
• A range of voluntary sector organisations
• Careers Wales
• Niace Dysgu Cymru

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Examples of projects

• Music Workshops
• Community Learning Plans
•  Painting and decorating and gardening courses
• Prescriptions for Learning
• Video and arts programme
• Curriculum choices for people with disabilities
• Partnership with hospital IT courses for people
  on dialysis
• Learning for Carers

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Results of Project 1 (ended 2003)

• 2,547 beneficiaries
• unemployed 73
• lone parents 17
• rural locations 57
• Men 33
• Women 67
• Disabled 16

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Phase 2

• To further remove barriers to learning by
  offering
• - basic and essential skills
• - free advice and guidance to plan for future
  learning programmes or entry to employment
• - free care for children and dependants
• - free travel
• - to cover the cost of materials or special
  equipment

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Policy Issues

• Structure
• For example
• involvement of local community in identifying
  learning needs
• links to community development initiatives
  including health, housing, social services,
  transport
• wide choice of curriculum options
• importance of informal and non-accredited
  learning
• offering appropriate progression routes
• one-to-one learner support

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Policy Issues

• Funding
• covering care and transport costs
• supporting broad learning outcomes with an
  emphasis on distance travelled
• funding key workers to support vulnerable adults
• developing a funding methodology that supports
  small units of learning
• supporting sustainable infrastructures for
  partnership working
• European funding