LIFELONG LEARNING SKILLS
AND COMMUNITIES
SHEFFIELD COMMUNITY
LEARNING TRUST PILOT
Sheffield Community Learning
Trust Pilot
• 15 pilots across the country
• Funded by Community Learning allocation from
Skills Funding Agency
• Runs for the academic year 2012/13
• Will be supported by Niace and evaluated by an
external company
• Aims to increase the numbers of learners
through a ‘universal offer’
• Further develop the localism agenda: the squid
model
Central Community
Assembly
Strategy
Quality
Understanding
Innovation
East Community
Assembly
Development
South East
Community Assembly
Sheffield City Council
SCC
North East
Community Assembly
North Community
Assembly
14 – 16
NEETS
Apprenticeships
Further Education
Family Learning
Adult & Community
Learning
Training Sites
Lifelong Learning Skills &
Communities
LLSC
South Community
Assembly
South West
Community Assembly
Transformational changes
• Develop a strategic approach with funded
and non funded partners
• Further develop our ‘universal offer’
• Build capacity of our community based
partners to ensure a local approach and
improve quality
• Build curriculum pathways that lead from
engagement to more formal learning
Themes
• Each pilot trust as asked to identify two
themes. Sheffield’s are:
• Using on line technology to increase
engagement and learning
• Linking to the Building Successful Families
project which is SCC’s response to the
government’s ‘troubled families’ initiative
On line technology
• Join the Dots project: working together
with Sheffield College
• Train learning champions to be ‘Dots’
mentors
• Video conferencing facilities: pilot the use
of this to engage more learners
• Also use this to raise quality by recording
good teaching sessions to use for training
On line technology
• Supported by UK online, developing ereading rooms
Building Successful families
• Offer a ‘prescription for learning’ to those
families identified as part of the project
• Link learning champions to families within
each assembly area to facilitate
engagement
Evaluation
• Proving the ‘value’ of Community Learning
towards the next government spending review
• Apply Social Return on Investment ‘SROI’
measures to Community Learning
• ‘Pound plus’ and value for money measures
• Wider outcomes for learners: Case studies
showing how learners move from engagement
through learning to employment/volunteering
SROI
• Calculated by establishing the cost of
delivery or ‘initial investment’
• Adding a monetary value to aspects which
result from an adult engaging in learning
• These aspects are: -health
-employment
-social relationships
-volunteering
Formation of the ‘Trust’ Board
• The ‘Trust’ Board will include
representatives from the following:
The Sheffield College
Northern College
Workers’ Educational Association
Higher Education
Community Assemblies
Local Learning Partnerships
Learning Champions
Voluntary Organisations
Sheffield Community Learning
Trust Forum
• An Adult Learning Summit will be held in
May 2013 during Adult Learners’ Week.
• All organisations involved in adult learning
in the city will be invited to attend the
Forum meeting
• Reports will be available re the progress of
the CLT pilot and representatives will be
invited to discuss these and contribute to
the future shaping of the pilot