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Financial Learning Online (FLO) Scotland

The Financial Learning Online (FLO) Scotland website offers guidance, resources and sharing practice examples for practitioners involved in supporting people aged 16 plus to become more financially capable.

Skills and Family Learning

A new family learning skills section is now available on the Excellence Gateway. The section has resources, guidance and activities showing how literacy, language and numeracy skills underpin familiar family learning contexts, tasks and activities.

New Learning Support materials

A new suite of resources and materials, developed to improve the quality of learning support for learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities, is now available on the Excellence Gateway.

Third Sector Toolkit

This kit, which is available on the Excellence Gateway, is designed to support voluntary and community organisations so that they can respond to the literacy, language, communication and numeracy skills needs of service users, staff and volunteers.

Skilled to go - teacher resources based on everyday consumer situations

The Office of Fair Trading's free consumer education toolkit for teachers, Skilled to go, has undergone a makeover, and now has more intuitive, easy to use web pages and a brighter, educational feel.

Inquiry makes recommendations to improve Adult Literacy

The Inquiry says that addressing adult literacy needs must be regarded as a moral imperative, and the cycle of inter-generational difficulties with literacy must be broken. It also says that more teachers must be trained and that there needs to be more innovative and cross-sector partnership work to help support literacy skills development.

Whitby Esk Energy: buy a share in a community hydro project

Network Manager Caryn Loftus would like to draw your attention to this community project! The project is offering you a chance to help produce 'green' energy, thereby reducing carbon emissions, to help provide a regular income to finance continuing carbon reducing projects and to give you a return on your investment.

Next Step: Telephone Helpline

From 12 September 2011, the telephone helpline numbers for both young people and adults will be aligned under the Next Step service number 0800 100 900.

Learner Eligibility and Contribution Rules 2011/2012 Version 2.1

This document details which individuals can be funded by the Skills Funding Agency and the level of government subsidy that they can receive in order to help pay for the costs of learning. A key point of note is that individuals in receipt of inactive benefits will be eligible for full funding for units and other aims that will help them enter employment, including ESOL.

Vorderman report on mathematics education published

'A world-class mathematics education for all our young people' concludes that major alterations in maths education are critical or we risk our future economic prosperity, and there should be compulsory maths in some form until the age of 18.