Learning, Employment and Training Services aims to help anyone who would like to embrace the opportunity to raise their employability or skills for personal, recreational or career development.
It also provides stepping stones back into work, and supports individuals to enhance their future career prospects by offering guided programmes of learning tailored to individual needs and those of families and communities.
Learning, Employment and Training Services is made up of two sections:
- Adult and Community Learning
- County Training
There are 8 learning centres across the county offering a vast range of opportunities to anyone wanting to learn new skills for work, personal, recreational or career development.
Adult and Community Learning
Adult and Community Learning provides a wide range of day and evening classes as well as midweek, weekend and holiday courses. Whatever your age or background, everyone is welcome to take part in lifelong learning, developing key skills and gaining new experiences.
Services include:
- Family Learning – courses and workshops where parents and children can learn together. The focus of many courses is the understanding and development of language, the importance of play and learning at school. Accredited literacy and numeracy qualifications are also provided.
- Adult and Community Education - part time recreational and leisure courses including:
- computing
- creative and performing arts
- health fitness
- languages, literature and culture
- local interest
- Neighbourhood Learning in Deprived Communities - courses set up to meet the needs and interests of local people, to help improve their skills and re-engage them in learning
County Training
- Vocational training and work experience for 14-16 year old school pupils who require an alternative curriculum.
- Apprenticeships – training and assessment for those aged over 16, working towards apprenticeship frameworks including NVQs level 2 and 3, in the following areas:
- Business Administration
- Children and Young People's Workforce
- Customer Service
- Hairdressing and Barbering level 2
- Health and Social Care
- Hospitality and Catering
- IT Practitioner and Professional
- ITQ
- Management level 3
- Storage and Warehousing
- Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schools
- Team Leading level 2
County Training also has a vast experience of working with unemployed adults and moving them into work.
- Foundation Learning - Skill Up – assisting 16-18 year olds progress into employment, an apprenticeship or college. The programme provides work experience, skills, qualifications and personal development.
- Employability and Disability service - assisting unemployed individual gain sustained employment through a range of interventions including Job search, Vocational training, basic skills support, and work experience placements
- Business Services - delivering government funded contracts and commercial training and assessment to Shropshire employers to help them increase productivity, across areas including:
- health and safety
- NVQs
- management
- learning and development
- essential skills - literacy and numeracy
- bespoke short courses
For more information about each of these services, please see the links on this page.