Priority Aims
Lifelong Learning and Skills
Aim
All children, young people, individuals, groups and organisations are enabled to achieve their full potential through equal access to the highest quality education, lifelong learning and training opportunities.
Outcomes and Objectives
Enjoy and Achieve
1. To raise aspirations and help all children achieve their potential by developing Children's Centres and Extended Schools, monitoring school performance and challenging and supporting schools to improve the quality of provision, and paying particular attention to the needs of vulnerable and under-achieving groups.
2. To ensure all children and young people can access a range of recreational activities including play and voluntary learning.
3. To work with the voluntary sector and other agencies to improve the range and quality of recreational learning opportunities for all especially children & young people.
Increased skills and academic achievement
4. To create a culture of lifelong learning by raising expectation and promoting individual achievement, aspiration and self-esteem and encouraging entrepreneurship.
5. To improve skills for life achievement and promote employers' investment in workforce development as a route to increased competitiveness, higher productivity and profitability.
6. To increase the opportunities for highly skilled and educated people to remain in Hartlepool by encouraging an enterprise culture, helping create high value business start-ups and sustain business survival and growth.
7. To develop entrepreneurial skills in young people through enterprise education.
Service Providers and Facilities
8. To ensure the highest quality providers and provision, develop new delivery models, encourage innovation and extend the good practice.
9. To develop and support new and emerging approaches such as the adult apprenticeship pilot, the general diploma and specialised diplomas.
10. To improve the provision and dissemination of labour market information to enable service providers to respond effectively to employer and learner demands.
Support and Access
11. To improve the provision of effective information, advice, guidance and counselling to pupils, students, families, and the community as a whole, including voluntary groups.
12. To provide employers with advice and support on how their organisation's training and development needs can be best met.
13. To develop training provision which provides suitable progression routes to individuals to increase participation in learning, achievement and employment levels.
14. To improve personal, social and emotional development, confidence building, citizenship and health awareness and the opportunity to learn in disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
15. To promote improved access to all types of education and training for all members of the community, promoting inclusion, breaking down barriers to learning including affordability, convenience, physical access and care, providing flexibility and new learning methods where practicable and widening participation for all.