Literacies for Social Care and Health Staff

As many as one in five workers in Scotland may be struggling with literacy and numeracy. For some of these workers, building confidence in their writing, number and reading skills may be the first step they want to take.

This new project hopes to target social care and health workplaces and raise the issue both with these staff and other key workers and reps. Funded by the Scottish Executive and supported by the Workers' Educational Association, this UNISON led project seeks to

· Establish and develop relationships between local Adult Literacy and Numeracy (ALN) partnerships, UNISON branches and social care and health employers to plan future ALN workplace provision.

· Deliver sector-specific literacy awareness raising training to UNISON Learning Representatives (ULRs), other branch representatives and employer representatives in key jobs.

· Pilot a range of learning delivery and models to meet demand stimulated by the project.

· Identify and disseminate good practice from project activities and from existing/current work in the social care and health sectors.

For further details of the project contact: Carol MacSwan, /Derek Durkin Learning and Development Workers, c.macswan@unison.co.uk 0131-226-0070, d.durkin@unison.co.uk 0131-226-0068

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