Glasgow The Caring City

Glasgow the Caring City Bespoke Skills -commenced September 2022 and is one of our main partners for the provisions for bespoke skills training. Training is based at the main Project Campus in Govan. One Skills Coordinator works exclusively with the school’s Developing Young Workforce coordinators in creating bespoke programmes for targeted students for two days per week over the course of a term. All students in the upper school are scheduled to have some access to training over the course of the project. The project is comprised of modules that are person centred. It remains open to additional elements intended to meet the individual needs of the young people identified through the established referral system. The Project delivers lifelong skills that will support developing the Young Workforce. It offers sessions to young people on: Hygiene and Food Handling, Basic Food Preparation, Catering and Hospitality, Bikeability, Cytech training and Bike Maintenance, aspects of engineering, event management, warehousing skills, computer maintenance, commercial joinery, manual handling skills, sound engineering, film and video production, beekeeping, and musical instrument maintenance. 

 

All young people have been involved in planning their future, with bespoke skills training to facilitate their course choices and employability pathways. We have already seen an improvement in their confidence by accessing these facilities, development of positive relationships and further development of connections they can continue to lean on within social groups. The skills developed through social skills group, will prepare them for further inclusion in the community. Data gathered in June from the Applied Behaviour Analysis Scale (ABAS) demonstrated a ‘good’ (mean between 60 and 69%) increase in social, communication and functional skills.  

 

All young people involved in the project have been entered for National Qualifications ranging from National 2 to National 3 level. They have engaged in weekly projects that have facilitated their understanding of work experiences and supported them to make informed choices for senior school vocational projects. The senior students that accessed this project have benefited greatly ranging from voluntary work opportunities, to paid vocational work.