Step into Learning is a national project that gives staff and managers skills and resources to identify parents or carers who have literacy, numeracy or language needs and direct such parents on to local courses.
Since its launch in 2002, over 3,500 practitioners in Neighbourhood Nurseries, Sure Start local programmes and children's centres have been trained under the programme. Now in its third and final stage, the project is set to offer training to staff in pre-school settings, private daycare, childminders, pre-and after-school clubs, holiday play schemes and extended schools.
Elaine Voice, head of Step into Learning Cambridge Training and Development, the company managing the third phase of the project on behalf of the DfES and the Department for Work and Pensions, said the programme 'needs to fit into local strategic provision' to be sustainable.
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