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Liverpool Invest to Change Project Evaluation 2008 – 2009
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10 minutes and 30 seconds
Year: 2009
Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
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Documentary
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Training Plus merseyside
Director:
Tim Brunsden
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mrbgq on Sep 23, 2009
Liverpool 14-19 Team's 'Invest to Change' project funded by LSC supports the transition of Liverpool young people with learning difficulties and disabilities into the workplace and FE.
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- How the whole thing came about is that we were fortunate to get LSC funding
- from Invest to Change back in 2007
- and one of the things we did was undertake a consultation with young people
- with LLDD, looking at what is it they wish to move onto at 16 or 18
- and where did they feel they had opportunities and perhaps where opportunities were missing
- and one message that came out really clear and strong was that they
- felt they had excellent progression into FE, but perhaps they didn't have as wide a choice into work based learning as they
- would have liked. So one of the things we tried to do in 2008/9 is really look at
- spear-heading opening up choices to learners and we looked specifically at learners
- with severe learning difficulties and learners from the autistic spectrum in the first year.
- Initially OSSME was contacted by Hilary Venney to do some training on Autism Spectrum Disorder
- to work based training providers. That took place in Speke a few months ago.
- From that, we looked at the evaluations and found that there were particular companies like Training Plus that wanted bespoke training.
- to help them support students with ASD in their workplace and their environment.
- So that's taken place over a number of sessions.
- Our involvement as a work based learning provider has been around seeing how we can break down the barriers
- for young people into apprenticeships and we run programmes here in child care, administration and hairdressing.
- As they become more successful, obviously we're interesting in making them more and more open as we can.
- and engaging with young people and employers in a wider sense.
- We at the college identified that there was a need to improve transition
- for young people from special schools into FE, and the project enabled us to release
- a specialist qualified, specialist member of staff from our college team
- to go into special schools in the last year and to undertake initial assessments to
- look at what level they were operating at in respect to the pre entry curriculum framework
- for literacy and numeracy and look at their cognitive levels and their conceptual understanding
- and compose a thorough assessment to then give impartial advice and guidance
- as to what would be the relevant course in FE
- We've worked at building and spear-heading partnerships and relationships between providers,
- specialists such as OSSME and special school staff who have got years and years of experience
- working with young people with ASD or SLD and really building relationships between providers and
- between special schools, learners and FE.
- We're also part of the steering group committee, which again has provided opportunities for us to find
- out more about what is going on in and around Liverpool and to support each other
- in again providing quality training for people who are working with young people with ASD.
- OSSME are also able to tailor make transition packages both for students and for the employer
- and this this offers a support network so that the student or young person with ASD can successfully
- go from one environment to another environment as smoothly as possible.
- This also helps the employer to understand the young person with ASD's view of their new environment
- to make them feel more comfortable in their new environment that they are going to be entering.
- The training has hugely benefited our organisation, OSSME gave us strategies we could use to support
- the needs of the learners. It's given us a great awareness of how broad the ASD spectrum really is
- and then that's given us the ability to help the students make the transition from education into employment.
- It's good because then you're bringing a more diverse group of people into the workplace and make everyone else feel equal.
- It's really developed our providers in relation to how they support learners with learning difficulties, because that's always an issue for us.
- A lot of funding is designed for main stream activities, but this is enhancing those with learning difficulties.
- We're beginning to open up a much broader choice of options for learners with ASD within work based learning.
- Just those simple techniques, the ones that don't cost a phenomenal amount of money can absolutely
- enhance and make our teaching practice so much more inclusive.
- In actual fact, one of the obvious ways we've benefited here in terms of the training that we've received around ASD
- was that our Learning & Recruitment Manager and Senior Recruitment Consultant, who've been recruiting young people onto
- various training programs for the last 20 years in this city
- have sat in that training session and realised that they have been looking at young people, who they
- would consider now to be on the ASD spectrum, but previously may have considered were not alert, not attentive, didn't want it enough and maybe
- have been referred onto something else and I think that even of itself is a phenomenal milestone really in our learning
- about the wider agenda of learning difficulty and the specifics of that, and something that we can address quite significantly.
- The main success that has come across to me is the joint working that has been brought about by the project,
- from a number of committed personnel. It's also allowed us to work together to find out how we can facilitate opportunities
- for the young people that we support with Autistic Spectrum Disorder, to actually access the opportunities to develop
- from school into work based learning, therefore into the workplace and into college as well.
- It's allowed the OSSME service to develop the role that they have with supporting young people with ASD
- It's been interesting for us to learn what is actually required by work based learners, to help support placements
- for young people with ASD to be successful.
- I think we've gained a confidence around the mystique of learning difficulty over time, there's no two ways about that
- I think without a doubt we trail-blazed ourselves, not the world or the country but we trail-blazed ourselves on dyslexia.
- We've got to a point where we don't get freaked out about it, we don't even get edgy about it now, it's part of our normal everyday working processes
- to deal with dyslexia and quite effectively too. Of course that confidence comes across to the learners so we just get a successful outcome
- because everything is about confidence generally, whatever learning difficulty or disability we're talking about,
- really what we're talking about is a person's confidence.
- I think going forward, some further training for staff at Training Plus, so we could specifically mentor learners with ASD
- who come on board with us. Also some training for employers so that employers can help support the needs
- and utilise the strengths of the students with ASD.
- I think that what has been useful is to have regular meetings with other partners in the project to determine ways forward.
- From OSSME's perspective we would like to support and develop a transition package to support young people with
- Autistic Spectrum Disorder to have a very smooth transition into work based learning providing placements or colleges.
- I can see that we can be integral with the other agencies involved in developing that package
- and it would be very much tailor made to address each person individual needs.
- If the funding comes through for the future, we'll look to develop on this year because it's been a really positive project.
- We'll look to develop learning in other areas of disability, which could be dyslexia or any other
- type of provision that in conjunction with our partners is we feel is needed.
- and that will be a real benefit to the area.
- what we must remember is that small things are sometimes good outcomes, and not a great big qualification
- which is typically what we expect. Sometimes it can be just about getting a young person to engage in the world on a regular basis.
- That's what we might call a soft outcome really, but nether the less a very very important one.
- What Liverpool want to achieve with the Invest To Change funding is to really widen choice for young people
- in Liverpool with learning difficulties and disabilities so that they have a broad range of opportunities
- so that they can have successful and fulfilled lives.


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