A review of the impacts of recent basic skills development activity initiated/ strongly supported by organisations connected to Birmingham Core Skills Development Partnership (PDF)
Over the ten years 1996 to 2006 substantial energy and resources were put behind developments in language, literacy and numeracy across Birmingham as a whole.  This article takes stock of some of these developments and the current ‘platform’ of development across the range of agencies in Birmingham.  This platform is the position from which Birmingham needs to ‘springboard’ to the next set of aspirational levels as most of those same organisations draft out their intentions to 2010, 2011 or beyond.

Achieving the long-term aspiration: 'Getting there' in Birmingham (PDF) This describes the developments undertaken 1995-2005 and the gains made over this ten year period. The article ends by describing some of the changes in structures, and planning, within the partners – and outlines the challenge for the future.

Moving The Mountain (PDF) In January 2003 Geoff Bateson, Partnership Manager of the Birmingham Core Skills Development Partnership, was pleased to be able to accept an invitation to present the work of the Partnership to various audiences in western Canada. September 2003.

Some key recurring national and regional messages, August 2004(PDF) An analysis of government policy documents in mid 2004 showed a consistent set of repeated messages. These form the outline framework for plans and expectations across the next few years.

Some thoughts on the approach to change, June 2004 (PDF) The Partnership was established as a development agency, focused on bringing about change to the way mainstream services operate. As part of the ongoing evaluation, the Partnership was challenged to make its change-model more explicit. If its aim was to bring about rapid, system-wide change how was it doing this?