What is the new Move On programme commissioned by the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) and what does it offer?

Move On offers a direct approach to promotion, engagement and delivery that highlights opportunity for all rather than need for some. It describes the benefits that learning and qualifications can bring, and encourages people to believe that they can progress.

• Promotion: A positive sell, offering the opportunity to improve English and maths skills. The focus is on gaining qualifications and progressing rather than on people's problems and needs: ‘Would English or maths qualifications help you to move on?’ rather than the negative ‘Have you got problems with your reading, writing and maths?’
• Engagement: Training and tools for referrers in the community, in education and in the workplace, who have frequent contact with potential learners. The training gives an opportunity to explore the positive language to use and try a National Test.
• Delivery: A focused learning opportunity offering a chance to develop skills and achieve a national qualification, which enables learners to:
  – develop wider skills
  – prepare and practise to take the National Tests in Adult Literacy and Numeracy when ready.
  The Move On Learner Route provides online skills development and practice tests.

• The first Move On programme (2003 to 2006) developed and disseminated the approach, supporting providers and other organisations to adopt it and adapt it to their needs.
• The second Move On Up programme (2006 to 2008) embedded Move On into providers’ practice and broadened the offer to support promotion, engagement, delivery and achievement at Entry 3, as well as at Level 1 and Level 2. It adapted and developed the approach for employers and the workplace, known as Get On At Work and developed support for a campaign approach, known as Test the . . .
• The third and current Move On to World Class Skills programme (2008 to 2009) is adapting the approach to meet the needs of the World Class Skills agenda.

Move On to World Class Skills

• continuing to develop the Learner Route to increase capacity, quality and flexibility for Skills for Life learning
• increasing the accessibility of Move On resources for cascaded use by a range of providers across all Skills for Life contexts
• supporting and encouraging employers on their route to World Class Skills
• supporting providers to be responsive to employer needs through Get On At Work training and development.

• Strand 1: Move On
  To extend and promote the Learner Route and provide support for providers to increase capacity, quality and flexibility of Skills for Life provision, particularly in numeracy.
• Strand 2: Get On At Work
  To promote and enable workplace Skills for Life development using the Get On At Work approach that gives practical steps and solutions for employers and providers committed to the development of World Class Skills.

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Move On advisers

Move On advisers can offer practical strategies to support quality improvement by:

• Training on using the Move On Learner Route to increase capacity, quality and flexibility of learning experience with an emphasis on numeracy
• Move On promotional materials, especially within voluntary and community and FLLN contexts
• Support for 'Test the…' numeracy campaigns
• Training on teaching numeracy at Entry 3
• Get On At Work (GOAW) resources
• GOAW delivery models and use of the GOAW training pack incorporating blended learning
• Train to Gain provider and broker training events
• Support for employers to adopt a whole organisation approach to Skills for Life
• Dissemination of the 'Move On in the NHS' and 'Move On Carefully' materials.