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6th Annual
Offender Learning, Skills
and Employability Conference
High standards for adult
and youth offenders
Tuesday 30th March 2010
Grand Connaught Rooms, London WC2
PURPOSE OF THE CONFERENCE
This one day conference will:
- Learn how public spending cuts will affect educational activities
- Maintain high quality services to reduce re-offending rates
- Match employers with ex-offenders
- Hear advice on keeping staff motivated during uncertain times
- Plan for changes to funding streams
- Understand changes in curricula and their outcomes for increased
employability in a recession
- Prepare for the implementation of QCF in September 2010
- Understand Unique Learner Numbers and how a unitised credit structure
will support the learner and overcome obstacles to gaining qualifications,
such as abrupt transfer between prisons
- Deliver post-sentence support for offenders and increase prospects
for employment
- Explore the new responsibilities of Local Authorities for FE and
YP provision
- Benefit from the findings of the regional pilot schemes for curriculum
and qualifications changes
- Prepare for hurdles and opportunities for a national online virtual
campus for offenders
- Gain practical tools for hte implementation for new frameworks and
enhancing offender learning through a choice of seminars on:
- Substance abuse and ETE
- The Qualifications and Curriculum Framework
- Effective IAG for offenders
- Sustainable employment for offenders
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