Vision 2030

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Vision 2030

• Local people realising their full potential
  enjoying the best quality of life in a healthy,
  equal, safe, prosperous and sustainable
  Gateshead.
• Local people with high aspirations and
  opportunities to achieve delivered through
  quality education, training and employment
  opportunities for young and old through public,
  private and voluntary sector organisations
• By 2030, 75 of adults will be qualified to NVQ
  Level 3 and above
• By 2030, all residents in Gateshead are
  functionally literate and numerate and are
  qualified to at least NVQ Level 2

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Where Life Long Learning sits in the Council
portfolios

• Children and Young People Family Learning, 14
  -19, Education Business Links
• Economy, Skills, Housing Transport Skills for
  Jobs, Further Education, Higher Education , Work
  based Learning, Skills for Life
• Safer, Stronger Communities Culture Wider
  Adult Learning, Community Learning, Skills for
  Life
• Adult Social Care Health Skills for Health,
  Wider Adult Learning

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Adult Learning Delivery

• Wider Adult Learning
• Family Learning
• Skills for Life
• Vocational Learning

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Gateshead Council Adult Learning Framework

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Gateshead Performance

• 22 of Gateshead adults have low or very low
  literacy skills, this compares to 16 for
  England.
• 63 of Gateshead adults have low levels of
  numeracy skills, this compares to 46 for
  England.
• 38.6 of Gateshead 16 74 year olds do not hold
  a full level 2 qualification, this compares to
  36.2 for England

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Issues for the Central Area

• Getting people to the learning ladder
• Linking learning participation and economic
  prosperity
• Digital divide
• Joining up resources Everyone Matters

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