co-east & equal margaret davies & doug reed. why are we here?
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Co-East & EQUAL
Margaret Davies & Doug Reed
Why are we here?
Co-East Partnership
The project partners are: Essex (with co-ordinating role) Cambridgeshire Hertfordshire Peterborough Suffolk Peterborough Learning Centre Ltd. MDR Partners (project management)
EQUAL (EastLearn)
Source of Finance:European Social Fund (ESF) - Community Initiative
Monetary value to Suffolk - plus match funding
Timescale: 15.05.02 - 14.08.04 Total beneficiaries: 400
Target Groupswomen returnersethnic minoritiesdisabled people
Libraries
Management Monitoring/Local Delivery
Marketing/Evaluation Transnational Activities
Target Groupswomen returners
people in rural areasunemployed people
people with basicskills needs
MDR PartnersManagement
andTransnational
Activities
Essex County CouncilCo-ordinator
Mainstreaming and ThematicNetworking
SubcontractingEvaluation
Target Groupswomen returnersethnic minoritiesdisabled peopleolder workersrural/isolatedunemployed
people
Target Groupswomen returnersethnic minoritiesdisabled peopleolder workersunemployed
people
Target Groupswomen returnersethnic minorities
people in rural areaspeople with basic
skills needsunemployed people
Cambridgeshire
Essex
Hertfordshire Suffolk
Peterborough
Overall Objective
To increase and demonstrate the
potential of public libraries to provide
awareness, training and lifelong
learning opportunities which impact on
the recruitment and retention of
specified target groups suffering
discrimination and inequality in
connection with the labour market.
Sub-Objectives
To raise the profile of public libraries as potential partners for other stakeholders in the employment field and to build strong local partnerships.
To provide a model for other public libraries wishing to attain similar objectives.
To utilise the geographical spread and reach of the library service to contact and enthuse the target audience towards take up of learning opportunities offered by libraries, leading to improved basic and ICT skills levels and higher confidence in their ability to participate in the labour market.
To build on existing work and contacts with the target groups and create new contacts by outreach work, i.e. sending trained staff out into the community to deliver awareness and taster sessions and explain the opportunities available.
To deliver in the libraries a range of learning activities, focusing mainly on basic skills and ICT skills, tailored towards further learning and improved employability.
To record and encourage progress by the learners. To offer, in parallel, information, advice and guidance, referring as necessary to
existing IAG partners. To progress learners towards further training or employment by monitored
referrals to Job Centres Plus or other education and training providers.
Target Groups
lone parents/carers with young children; travellers; returners to the labour market with skills needs [especially
workers over 50]; women returners; people in low skilled/low paid work with skills needs local communities with basic skills/ICT needs; rural and isolated communities; unemployed people with skills needs; people with physical and sensory disabilities; adults with learning disabilities; people with mental health problems; people from ethnic minorities with skills needs; and people from deprived/low skills neighbourhoods.
Target Groups: Obstacles
Research has identified a number of
obstacles to learning and employment: physical and sensory; intellectual; cultural; attitudinal; and financial.
Access difficulties are magnified in
remote/isolated communities.
Role of Libraries
The Partnership believes that the public
library is well-placed to overcome many of
these barriers to learning access through: easy accessibility in the community; positive anonymity and neutrality; minimal access threshold (free of cost); environment which fosters creativity; and community and collective identity and
ownership.
The Work
In the UK, the Partnership will: train a selected group of new and existing staff in the principles of
EQUAL, training and support techniques, and the needs of the target groups;
engage with the target groups - initially by ‘outreach’ work, by visiting community centres, meeting places, traveller sites and individual homes to make presentations, talk about learning and employment opportunities, and to demonstrate and offer awareness and ‘taster’ sessions; and
at community meetings, and through planned follow up, learners will be encouraged to visit local libraries, individually or in groups, where they will be assisted in the selection and use of a variety of learning programmes. In the main, the learning programmes will focus on basic skills and ICT and will be selected from existing offerings .
Transnational Work
The Partnership has international partners in Italy and France.
ABSIDE, CARIBAL-EDIST and CO-EAST appear to be the only three
Development Partnerships in Europe planning to deliver ICT-based
learning opportunities in support of employment objectives through
public libraries. All three have a common interest in training library
staff and in developing distributed learning materials and
methodologies in support of this. Together they will undertake: TCA secretariat and internal communication; Design and development of international outcomes; Study visits and exchanges; and Monitoring of international outcomes.
Summary
The Co-East Equal Partnership aims to mobilise the resources of
public libraries in the UK and Europe to support lifelong learning for
employment opportunities by creating a regional case study. A
successful partnership model between libraries at local level and
agencies for employment initiatives/formal education will be
demonstrated. We aim to demonstrate genuine overlap of interest
and genuine impact. We will document the methodologies in a toolkit
for libraries. Libraries will focus their learning and advice services for
specified target groups (employed and unemployed who need basic
ICT training, women returners, the disabled, ethnic minorities and
older workers) to achieve employment-related impact.
Work Packages
Work divided into six work packages,
reflecting the objectives and priorities
set out in the Development Partnership
Agreement (DPA). Inputs and costs for
each are reflected in the project
budget, and expected outcomes and
deliverables are shown in the detailed
work plan.
Work Packages
Transnational Working
Marketing Evaluation Mainstreaming
and Dissemination
Local Services Management
andCo-ordination
Local Services
Training Recruitment of
Staff and Volunteers
Infrastructure and Networks Prepared
Service Delivery in Learning Centres
Service Delivery by Outreach
Information, Advice and Guidance
Empowerment and Equal Opportunities
Results
Potential for mainstreaming - toolkit on the Web;
National and international meetings; Monitoring; Evaluation; and Sustainability.
What Happens Next?
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