During 2000-2001 we worked through the partners to support development in Birmingham which:
- created 5 more jobs
- benefited 25,754 more pupils
- assisted 1,852 more people to get qualifications
- supported 7,477 more training weeks
- benefited 2,642 more young people in their own time
- engaged 23 more employers in collaborative projects
- benefited 10 more voluntary organisations and 40 more community groups
- created 293 more new volunteers
- assisted 12,183 more parents
- safeguarded 3,281 jobs
- assisted 270 more people into jobs
- advised 153 businesses
This is more outputs than we were contracted to deliver. These outputs were achieved using £5,949,000 of Single Regeneration Budget funding. We hit all of our financial targets exactly.
Substantial progress has been made in 2000-2001. This progress has taken a number of forms:
- we have supported faster than national improvements in pupil attainments
- we have now consolidated work with all nurseries, primary, special and secondary schools
- embedded effective models for working with parents and families
- gained national recognition as an effective partnership for change
- improved model for work with employers
- supported a rational evidence-based approach to work with secondary schools
- built basic skills support into a structured set of activities with young people
- been at the forefront in responding to the new developments in adult basic skills
Work still needs to be done to:
- mplement a whole city plan to reducing number of adults with low levels of literacy and numeracy
- increase the range of basic skills support available to people
- improve the new secondary pupil support menu
- strengthen the support available via voluntary and community organisation
- push basic skills support through a wider range of agencies e.g. health; housing; Youth Offending Service.
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