Skill launches new student information project
Skill has launched an exciting new initiative to develop our Information Service to reach younger people with learning difficulties and/or disabilities with a day of inclusive theatre at the Chicken Shed Theatre Company.
Funded by the National Voluntary Youth Organisations grant scheme as part of the DfES, this project will seek to extend Skill’s Information Service and materials to target young people aged 11 to 19.
Barbara Waters, Skill’s Chief Executive comments:
‘We are delighted to be able to extend our work in this way. It will underpin the changes in the 14-19 curriculum and ensure young people get the information they need.’
The materials Skill intends to develop will be aspiration-raising and informative to support young people with disabilities and/or learning difficulties through transition into further or higher education, employment, training or work-based learning.
The project will involve building close contacts with partnership schools and colleges. This will enable direct consultation with young people themselves to explore current gaps in information provision, and to establish how their information and access needs can best be met.
The focus will be on informing young people further about their opportunities and responding to the young people’s needs by creating information that is clear, balanced, accessible and in a format that will raise aspirations and encourage them to explore their ideas about the future.
To find out more about this project, email Joanna Marriott at jo@skill.org.uk
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