Cheshire East Skills and Lifelong Learning team
Employment skills and community learning
We fund and work with local organisations to create a wide range of learning opportunities, courses and classes to assist residents in Cheshire East to gain or improve their employment opportunities.
Our Partners
Through our commissioned partners we are able to offer deliver a wide range of funded (for the vast majority free) courses from accredited vocational programmes to practical life skills courses that widen participation in learning. See the Education and Skills Funding Agency to find out more about how we fund these courses.
Below are details from our partner agencies with regards to their provisions.
Our partners include:
- Cheshire East Safeguarding Adults Board - Deliver Level 1 Adult Safeguarding to staff or volunteers working with adults with care and support needs in Cheshire East. This is either as a refresher or a comprehensive introduction to adult safeguarding. The training is delivered face to face, at your provision. Each session takes one and a half hours. The training can be delivered at a time to suit your yourselves.
- Cheshire, Halton And Warrington Race and Equality Centre (CHAWREC) - Run classes for non-English speakers aged 19 years and over to gain accredited qualifications in English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), as well as extra support session classes.
- Cheshire Learning Partnership (Springboard) - Run 'Work Hubs' for those seeking employment, as well as qualifications and courses on topics such as Essential Digital Skills for Work (EDSW), International Computer Driving Licence (ICDL), Completing Application Forms and Interview Skills.
- Create and Develop Career Solutions Facebook page - Deliver a range of courses accredited qualifications including Customer Service, Food Safety in Catering, Warehousing and Storage Skills and Construction (CSCS card) as well as Introduction to Emergency First Aid session in the local community.
- East Cheshire Training (Springboard) - Have created an employability project to include a provision for Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) students. The project includes a range of vocational courses that develop the skills needed to gain a volunteering or employment position in a variety of sectors. Some examples of the these are English and Maths Functional Skills, IT, Health and Safety, Infection Control, Food Safety and Wellbeing Qualifications.
- SUSO (Speaking Up Speaking Out) - Deliver accessible training for adults with learning disabilities and additional needs to improve skills, opportunities, and well-being for all.
- The Skills Network - Deliver a wide range of accredited qualifications including Prevention and Control of Infection, Mental Health, Preparing to Work in Adult Social Care and Team Leading to name but a few.
The council uses sub-contracted delivery as its main method of delivering adult education. Below is our policy that applies to all sub-contractors paid for by the Education and Skills Funding Agency Adult Education Budget that the council manages on its behalf, as well as the previous year's position statement.
Safeguarding
The Skills and Lifelong Learning (S&LL) team are committed to safeguarding all involved in the learning it funds. The S&LL current Safeguarding policy can be accessed via the below link and was designed in conjunction with the Safeguarding Children in Education team and the Cheshire East Safeguarding Adults Board. For further information please contact Giles Sowden our Safeguarding lead via email giles.sowden@cheshireeast.gov.uk
Information, Advice and Guidance
To further support our learners our partner Create and Develop Career Solutions provides our learners with Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG) based on local knowledge and links that they have gathered by attending local business meetings, speaking with local employers, liaising with Job Centres and meeting with local training providers.
Work Hubs
If you need support to develop your employment prospects then why not join us at one of the East Cheshire Work Hubs? Work Hubs are located across Cheshire East in the following towns:
For more information about days and times please either click on the town name above or contact our partner Cheshire Learning Partnership (Springboard).
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Contact Cheshire East Skills and Lifelong Learning team
email: adultandfamilylearning@cheshireeast.gov.uk
Page last reviewed: 06 March 2025
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