include currently offer four distinct programmes targeting hard
to reach young people.
include currently offer four distinct
programmes targeting hard to reach young people.
Key Stage 4 Bridge programmes
Bridge programmes provide full-time,
guided, education for young people who have experienced extreme
difficulties in mainstream or other settings. A majority of them
have been permanently excluded, some from pupil referral units, or
have failed to engage with education at any level. The Bridge
programmes aims to support these young people’s progression into
further education, employment or training.
All participants have a wide range of accreditation
opportunities open to them within the include curriculum framework
and work towards accreditation in literacy and language skills,
Numeracy, ICT and vocational and work skills. There are further
opportunities in creative and physical activities and GCSEs as
appropriate. The framework also develops personal and social skills
which enable young people to increase their self esteem and
participate as full members of their communities.
Flex
Flex programmes are founded on the
premise that young people understand what they need to do to
increase their employment, education or training opportunities, but
find it difficult, or do not know how to make the necessary
changes, in order to achieve their goals. Flex uses a combination
of solution focused, cognitive behavioural and neuro-linguistic
approaches to creating effective change with the young person
within a 16- week maximum intervention. This combination enables
the workers on the programmes to draw on the strengths that the
beneficiaries recognise in themselves and address areas of concern
from an objective and educative point of view.
Flex +
The Flex+ programme is aimed at young people between the ages of
16 and 18 and lasts a maximum of 8 weeks. The main difference
between Flex and Flex+ is that the young people on Flex+ are able
to sustain a 16 hour programme of provision after just 4 or 5 weeks
on the programme, and will be able to achieve Level 1 qualification
within a 6 month period
aBc2
The aBc2 (and Baby came too) Project is a holistic programme of
learning and relevant activities that motivates and enables young
mums who are currently not in education, employment or training to
re-engage with mainstream learning and training provision.
The project is currently delivered in
urban environments where the local authority has identified that
there is a disproportionately high numbers of young mums resident.
The project is fully supported by the key stakeholders working with
the client group.
The project utilises include’s proven models of
delivery to encourage, motivate, guide and support disadvantaged
young people through a structured learning process. The objective
of this process is for the young mums to achieve accredited
learning outcomes and a planned progression route into further
learning and training.