This innovative project will design and develop training materials and utilise new technologies to help young people who have been marginalised by imprisonment or offending behaviour in participating member states. The project aims to provide NGO's and national organisations working in the field of basic skills with materials and methodologies that link work to improve basic skills with relevant contextualised programmes of integration and capacity building for young people.

Partners include national basic skills agencies, prison services and prisons in 4 member states. Each member state will nominate a number of staff to receive the appropriate IT/Web training in basic skills issues via directed training inputs (accredited), related to their main functions and activities. Participating organisations will identify, recruit and select students, undertake initial assessment, formulate individual learning programmes and provide initial and ongoing support. The developed training modules and teaching materials will be tested for young people with poor basic skills and staff working in prisons with young offenders.

The newly developed modular learning programme will be integrated into mainstream occupational training. Each stage of the project will incorporate evaluation activity and the project will be disseminated widely in each of the four participating countries. It is envisaged that the project will have considerable outcomes, including identified gains in basic skills; secondary gains relating to social inclusion such as reduced offending and homelessness and the improvement of participation/employment gains; new training and technology for use within participating member states; enhanced staff development; models for further dissemination.

Coordinator of the projet

Personne de contact: Jim PATEMAN
Téléphone: +44-171-405 40 17
E-mail: jimp@basic-skills.co.uk

United Kingdom

Basic Skills Agency
Alan Wells
Director
Commonwealth House
1-19 New Oxford Street
WC1A 1NU London
Tel :0044 207 405 4017
Fax : 0044 207 440 6626
alanw@basic-skills.co.uk

Cambridge Training & Development Ltd
Martin Good
Lincoln House
The Paddocks
374 Cherry Hinton Road
Cambridge CB1 8DH
Tel : 0044 1223 470480
Fax : 0044 1223 582551
marting@ctad.co.uk

HM Prison Service
Jan Woodling
Project Manager
Education Services
8th Floor, Amp House
15 Dingwall Road
Croydon, CR0 2LX
Tel : 0044 208 76014705
Fax : 0044 208 7601855
education@prisons-educ.demon.co.uk

France

Groupe Permanent de Lutte contre I’lletrisme (GPLI)
Christine El Hayek
9-11 rye George, Pitard
75740 Paris
Tel : 00 33 1 53 68 78 01
Fax : 00 33 1 53 68 78 00
aufa.ed@imaginet.fr

Belgium

Penitentiar Centrum
Marthe Rombouts
Prison Address
Steenweg op Wortel 1
2330 Merksplas
Tel : 00 32 14 63 91 20

Ireland

National Adult Literacy Association (NALA)
Inez Bailey
76 Lower Gardinier Street
Dublin 1
Tel : 00 353 1 623 2737
Fax : 00 353 1 855 5475
nala@iol.ie

Wheatfield Place of Detention
Mary Kett
Prison
Clover Hill Road
Coldalkin
Dublin 22

Teachers Centre, Mount Joy,
N. Circular Road,
Dublin 7
Tel : 00 353 1 623 2737
Fax : 00 353 1 623 3506
edwheat@iol.ie