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Education Maintenance Allowance
There are some free promotional materials available for you to order, such as posters, leaflets, and the GCSE envelope and leaflet. These are available to you free of charge – simply telephone the distributors, Prolog on T: 0845 602 2260. Go 4 It!
You can view the latest issue electronically – simply click onto: If you wish to have a bundle of hard copies to use with your clients, simply email your requirements to: Samantha.keating@lsc.gov.uk If you wish to contribute some case studies or other relevant material for the August 2008 issue, please email your material to: Samantha.keating@lsc.gov.uk Apprenticeships
This facility will evolve over the coming months as new resources are added to the website. Click on now and have a look at what the site offers: www.apprenticeships.org.uk/brokersandproviders We are keen to receive your case studies. If you have any Apprenticeship case studies – whether fully-written or in draft form – we would love to hear from you. Please email them to: Linda.penrice@lsc.gov.uk East Midlands Apprenticeship Awards 2008We are delighted by the response of East Midlands providers – over 260 entries have been received for the regional Apprenticeship Awards 2008. If your organisation wishes to support the awards there are a few sponsorship opportunities remaining. Please telephone Allyson at Headstorm for details, T: 0870 170 9697 Celebrity Podcasts
If you wish to feature this podcast on your web site, please contact Samantha and she will organise you to receive it in the correct file form, E: Samantha.keating@lsc.gov.uk There are a number of other celebrity podcasts currently being developed featuring Ruth Badger, Doug Richard and Gerald Ratner. Pod castsA new pod cast is now available for your use. It features renowned business entrepreneur and UK Skills Envoy, Lord Jones of Birmingham, sharing his top business tips. This is available for you to use on your own website. http://www.connexions-lincsandrutland.co.uk/documents.aspx?search=true&CategoryID=11 You can even have your organisation's logo attached to it. If you have any questions about the pod cast, please call Samantha on 07876 035084. Other pod casts in the pipe line feature BBC TV programme 'The Apprentice' runner-up, Ruth Badger giving advice on how to get into and progress in the sales industry; and celebrity chef, Anthony Worrall Thompson sharing tips on making it in the catering industry. Adult Learning Grant (ALG) marketing materials
The leaflet gives basic information about ALG and advises learners where they can find out if they are eligible for support. The poster gives learners contact details to find out if they are eligible for the scheme, and also has space for the learning provider to put their own contact details. Please could you remove any old ALG leaflets and posters that you may be currently using within your organisation and replace them with the new ones. The leaflet and poster, along with the ALG birthday card, can be viewed on the LSC campaign resources website. Printed copies can be ordered by contacting LSC Publications and quoting the appropriate publication reference number: When ordering these items direct, please quote the following reference numbers:
Care to Learn support materialsCare to Learn helps young parents with the cost of childcare while they are in learning. The Care to Learn Code of Practice for Childcare Providers has been updated, along with the Care to Learn leaflet and poster. Childcare providers may be turned to by young parents for advice and support about childcare under Care to Learn. This Code of Practice sets out the ways in which they may be able to help. The leaflet gives basic information about Care to Learn and advises learners where they can find out if they are eligible for support. The poster also gives learners contact details to find out if they are eligible for the scheme. Both of these may be used by learning providers and childcare providers to inform young parents about the scheme. Please could you remove any old Care to Learn leaflets and posters that you may be currently using within your organisation and replace them with the new ones. The leaflet and poster, along with the code of practice can be viewed on the LSC campaign resources website Printed copies can be ordered by contacting LSC Publications T: 0845 602 2260
E: lsc@prolog.uk.com
Other News Items:Research newsletter CBI/Edexcel Education & Skills Survey 2008 LSC Campaign updatesThe LSC East Midlands aims to provide its providers and partners with regular bulletins, similar in style to this one, to keep them up to date on marketing and communications activities in relation to the Skills Campaign and other campaigns. If you wish to unsubscribe to this service, {UNSUBSCRIBE "please click here to unsubscribe"}. If this update has been forwarded to you from a colleague and you would like to receive your own dedicated communication in future, please subscribe by clicking here. You can register to receive regular updates to news and other items by subscribing to the LSC East Midlands web alert service. Click on this link to register for this service: http://www.lsc.gov.uk/regions/EastMidlands/News/lscwebalerts/ |
The national Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) campaign is launching with a brand new look and feel, bringing it more into line with the Skills campaign. The campaign runs throughout May and is repeated again for the month of July. In addition to the TV adverts, newspaper and consumer magazine adverts, there will be regional radio adverts too. 
The April 2008 issue of Go 4 It! is now available. This LSC East Midlands published newspaper promotes Adult Level 2 qualifications and training. All articles and features have been developed from contributions by our providers. 82,000 copies are delivered into specially targeted homes around the region. A further 20,000 are shared amongst the providers who contributed to that issue.
The ALG leaflet and poster have been updated with exciting new images to fit with the ‘Our future. It’s in our hands’ national campaign.