Education, Training and Employment
Primary function: to educate clients and further their skills, so clients can gain work.
Facilities include
- Drop-in computing
- Literacy
- Employment/education guidance
- Life skills
- Mentoring
- Magazine group
- Financial inclusion
The
Education, Training and Employment (ETE) team comprises a project manager and deputy, a mentoring
co-ordinator, a financial inclusion officer and two project workers. In
addition, City of Westminster College provides two part-time life
skills’ workers, one part-time IT tutor and one part-time vocational
guidance worker. Job Centre Plus also supplies two sessional workers to
help twice a week.
Last year the drop in
computer service was used 3,187 times by a group of some 373 clients.
The most popular ETE class was RSA CLAIT (computer literacy and
information technology) with 20 client sessions each week. This is an
accredited computer course run by the City of Westminster College. Last
year, 32 exams were passed – a real achievement considering the
clients’ extra needs.
The quarterly magazine produced by clients with staff support is available online at www.writesofpassage.org.uk. This site also enables our clients to access the ETE job support site and to look for work out of hours.
At least 69 jobs were obtained for clients last year.