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Overview of Council Lifelong Learning Delivery 2019/20

Meeting: 09/02/2022 - Health and Wellbeing Board (Item 57)

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Minutes:

The Head of Integrated Learning, Skills and Employment introduced the report of the Director of Children, Families and Education which set out the Lifelong Learning Services’ developments, summary of delivery and learner achievements in the 2019/20 academic year which was its first full academic year funded by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority. It was outlined that the report had been submitted to Children, Young People and Education Committee in September 2021 and referred to Health and Wellbeing Board to emphasise the role it played in the wider determinants of health. Further detail on the service was provided to the Board including the work delivered with the third sector including volunteering, employability and mental health & wellbeing.

 

The Board heard from Kerry Corrigan who had enrolled in the Lifelong Learning programme in 2020 studying Understanding Mental Health and Wellbeing, English and Functional Skills Level 1, Teaching Assistant Level 1 and Teaching Assistant Level 2. The Board heard how Kerry had been supported by the tutors through her study journey, including throughout lockdown when she was loaned a laptop to continue her course, and following completion was now volunteering at her daughter’s school to gain the necessary experience and put her learning into practice.

 

The Board welcomed the presentation and thanked Kerry for providing the important lived experience. The Director of Public Health emphasised the opportunity through the health and wellbeing strategy to create links across the sector and utilise the Lifelong Learning Service as part of health provision when appropriate for someone accessing health services who would benefit from the service.

 

Resolved – That

 

(1)  the report be noted.

(2)  the services’ planned improvements be supported, and the contribution made to improving the lives of adults in Wirral’s more deprived communities during 2019/20 be recognised.