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CREU LLWYBRAU LLE MAE POBL EISIAU CERDDED
Caerphilly Basin Schools Partnership DAVID
EYNON Ysgol St Cenydd / St Cenydd School
MAKING PATHS WHERE PEOPLE WANT TO WALK ALYSON
JENKINS CARMARTHENSHIRE LEARNING NETWORK
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Background

• 1.9m ESF Objective 1 project
• September 2003 September 2005
• 150 new courses to 1500 local people
• A first step for people not taking part in
  learning

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Project Aims

• To increase and widen adult participation in
  lifelong learning
• To create a strategic, networked appraoch to
  support the development of a bilingual lifelong
  learning culture in Carmarthenshire through
  partnership working

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A Network A Partnership

• Carmarthenshire County Council
• Coleg Sir Gar
• Trac (Antur Teifi)
• Careers Wales West
• Foothold
• Carmarthenshire Chamber of Commerce
• Llanelli Rural Council
• Trinity College Carmarthen
• Universtity of Wales Swansea and Welsh for
  Adults Consortium
• CAVS (Carmarthenshire Association of Voluntary
  Services)

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Project Structure
CCET
CCET Post 16 sub group
Project Management Group Technical Operational
Evaluation, monitoring, finance, quality,
audit, support and vision
1 voluntary sector 6 Community
learning officers
Project Manager
Voluntary Sector Lifelong Learning Fora
Administrator, Monitoring officer, Finance
officer
Local community Learning Fora
All Providers
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Location
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Background Social and Economic Context

• High unemployment rate
• The average weekly wage in Carmarthenshire is
  among the lowest in Wales
• Basic Skills Needs
• Falling birth rates and an ageing population
  outward migration of young people

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Changing the Culture

• Positive attitudews to informal learning
• WAG The Learning Country increasing
  participation in lifelong learning
• Lifelong learning a key driver in community and
  economic regeneration

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Widening participation by

• Working with partners at all levels
• People in the community e.g community
  association, village hall committees and
  caretakers, gatekeepers, activists, anybody
• Local Learning Fora partners and providers and
  local community
• The voluntary sector
• Providers
• People in working regeneration
• Mentrau
• Community schools
• Schools

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Widening participation by

• Listening to what people say
• Identifying and responding to needs
• Identifying barriers and helping people overcome
  barriers by
• Offering courses locally
• Offering support with childcare and travel costs
• Offering all courses free
• Offering guidance, advice and support to learners
  at all stages along a learning pathway

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Activities

• Tasters
• Sessions or whole days offering a range of
  activities held in local, accessible venues
• Courses
• In a range of subjects. The most popular are IT
  for beginners, IT for fun, complimentary health,
  arts and crafts, THE NEWYOU, Belly dancing
• Tutor Training and Database
• In conjunction with the college Coleg Sir Gar
  putting on a one term module for tutors. The
  network now has a database of tutors

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THE FUTURE
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Caerphilly Basin Schools Partnership DAVID
EYNON Ysgol St Cenydd / St Cenydd School
Carmarthenshire Learning Network 2?