What is Move On 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 Move On to World Class Skills programme (2008 to 2009) has adapted the approach to meet the needs of the World Class Skills agenda.

Move On is now being embedded within the Skills for Life Support Programme (SfLSP).