Select Committee on Office of the Deputy Prime Minister: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Written Evidence


APPENDIX 1

NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE REGENERATION ZONE—EMERGING PROJECTS

BeTogether Raises Aspiration In North Staffordshire (BRAINS)

  The BRAINS project will address the need to "develop a spirit of enterprise and entrepreneurship" within North Staffordshire (Regeneration Zone Consultation Event May 2001). It will build upon existing but limited practice by establishing Young Enterprise as the lead organisation.

Raising Aspiration and Investing in Skills for Employment (RAISE)

  The RAISE Project consists of 4 strands: (1) Employability skills for disaffected 14-16 year olds, (2) Performance incentives for 16-19 year olds, (3) Adult basic skills and (4) An audit of vocational education and training across the zone and the production of a development plan.

  Combining these 4 strands of activity together into a single project allows for identified linkages between education, training and employment to be maximised.

Raising Aspirations In Newcastle (RAIN)

  RAIN is a multi-faceted programme with the aim of raising aspirations for learning, training and employment, especially in engineering and science, amongst young people and their parents in the Borough of Newcastle.

Workforce Development Phase 1 (Learning Resource Centre)

  In Phase 1 it addresses the immediate need for development of the medical and health care sector workforce. It will provide a training facility on the site of the North Staffordshire Hospital Trust to deliver training in medical and health care to post 14 pupils and students to develop their interest, knowledge and aspiration to undertake a structured career in medical and health care.





 
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