Take three days - training programmes

Flexible New Deal
We are in discussions with a number of Flexible New Deal providers who are seeking to include our Take three days parents programme and our Training the Trainers programme as part of their specialist support for Lone Parents.

Newham Workplace
Following a highly successful training programme for engagement officers, we are working with the team to roll out Take three days in extended schools and community settings across Newham.

“This course was very informative in every way. Not only were we given the theory behind it, but also we actually got to try things from the trainer and the learner's point of view. Everything we require to be able to do this ourselves was given to us, making it fool proof.”

Islington
Nursey World article Home of the original pilot, with five programmes delivered so far in projects developed with: EC1 New Deal, CEA@Islington and LB Islington Regeneration. The programme has benefited from partnerships with the extended schools co-ordinators, CIS, Work is and Tracks to Employment.

London Development Agency and Greater London Enterprise
Seven specialist advisers have been trained to deliver Take three days in support of the Childcare Affordability Programme. Over the Spring and Summer of 2008 the programme will be rolled out across the Olympic Boroughs of Newham, Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Waltham Forrest and Greenwich, and in the west of London: Ealing, Harrow, and Hammersmith and Fulham

Croydon 2008
A neighbourhood renewal funded programme, working in partnership with Jobcentre Plus with four programmes being delivered in 2008, specifically to support lone parents.

East Midlands
In partnership with Jobcentre Plus Programmes have been delivered in the Cobden Childrem's Centre in Loughborough and the Saffron Children's Centre in Leicester. Local Employers played an important role in advising parents about interviews and work.

Southwark
Through an innovative partnership between Jobcentre Plus and LB Southwark, a pilot was delivered at the Bishop's house Children's Centre in Autumn 2007.

Tower Hamlets
A pilot was delivered at the Lincoln and Burdett Children's Centre in partnership with their parent's Job club in the Autumn of 2007.

Our latest project is with EC1 New Deal on a new programme focusing support over the next year on the Golden Lane Campus.