What is the Life Skills Academy?

Sustainable employment and greater life chances for care leavers.

Aim: We aim to tackle poor outcomes for disadvantaged Young people by building their employability through recycling opportunities and apprenticeships.

Objective: is to provide intensive emotional wraparound support matched with real job placements.

We will do this by working alongside our private and public partners to ensure a successful transition to adulthood and independent living for these young people.

Our uniqueness is that we prepare and offer Young People a 'job contract'

We do this by:

  • Providing real jobs through working with our private company and partners.
  • Providing wraparound emotional support to assist the Young person to obtain, maintain and sustain the job opportunity.
  • Providing a training solution to prepare the Young people for the opportunity.
  • Providing stable accommodation to increase and sustain engagement levels.

Our track record...

Since 2008 we have run several employability programmes offering emotional intensive support alongside employment and training opportunities. 90% of the young people attending these courses went on to employment, further training or volunteering.

What are the benefits for young people...?

  • Choice and job opportunities that work.
  • Consistent and personalised support.
  • Life skills.
  • Financial independence.

Each young person is given the opportunity to develop the skills needed to enable them to realise their potential and play a positive and productive role in society.

Interested...? Please call 01925 246910 and speak to the team.