1999/2000

Development Frame Work

The Core Skills Development Partnership supports activity which:
  • links to the implementation of broader strategies
  • is structured not just on pilots but on activity that has impact on whole structures
  • increases multi-agency approaches and joint planning, with differing roles clearly defined
  • assists organisations to identify what creates success and to make this the norm
  • adds value to mainstream activities by improving the quality and diversity of opportunities
  • focuses on the need of specific client groups, especially at identified critical transition times
  • has some targeting based on need, without defining people/ organisations as failing
  • trains staff in appropriate ways of embedding key skills in a wide range of mainstream programmes
  • enhances the existing professional development of staff to create whole-organisation approaches to core skills development
  • supports the linking of varieties of interventions to produce learning communities
  • expands the use of appropriate technologies to accelerate learning
  • supports the development of resource/learning hubs, with clusters of activity being developed into platforms for future developments
  • supports assessment and target setting, based upon disaggregated, reliable information
  • increases the volume of voluntary activity
  • sustains the changes long-term by creating new ways of working that become independent of on-going financial support
  • contributes to planned outputs and contributes towards longer-term outcomes