During 1999-2000 we worked through the partners to support development in Birmingham which:
- created 2 jobs
- benefited 54,640 pupils
- assisted 3,402 people to get qualifications
- supported 7,308 training weeks
- benefited 5,204 young people in their own time
- engaged 33 employers in collaborative projects
- benefited 38 voluntary organisations and 18 community groups
- created 902 new volunteers
- assisted 14,106 parents
- safeguarded 3,344 jobs
- assisted 279 people into jobs
- advised 154 businesses
This is for more outputs than we were contracted to deliver. These outputs were achieved using £3,125,000 of Single Regeneration Budget funding. We hit all of our financial targets exactly.
Substantial progress has been made in 1998-99. This progress has taken a number of forms:
- we have supported faster than national improvements in pupil attainments
- we have now worked with all nurseries, primary, special and secondary schools
- establishment of effective models for working with parents and families
- changed structures to meet changed contexts
- rapid shift in work with employers
- established planned approaches to linking businesses, core skills developments, and schools
- clearer approach to developing basic skills of children in public care
- built basic skills support into a linked set of activities with young people
- been at the forefront in responding to the new developments in adult basic skills, and in use of ICT
Work still needs to be done to:
- implement a planned approach to reducing number of adults with low levels of literacy and numeracy
- line up the varieties of basic skills support available to people via ICT
- implement the new secondary pupil support model
- 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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