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Personal achievement award for learning

Posted on Friday, December 4th, 2015

Chris was nominated for the ‘Personal Achievement’ award at the Adult Literacies Awards in Fife, for all his hard work. Chris, initially contacted Leonard Cheshire to learn computing and was referred to Lead Scotland for their support. Prior to the referral, Chris had not used a computer before and, because of his visual impairment, was […]

From Learner to Lead Volunteer

Posted on Friday, December 4th, 2015

I first came out of hospital in 2001. A nurse told me about a man who was a learner with Lead Scotland. I contacted him and he put me in touch with Annabel Fairweather who was the Lead Co-ordinator based in Elgin in 2003. I got support and started off working through computer basics and […]

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Finding a way forward with dyslexia

Posted on Friday, December 4th, 2015

Katy thinks back to school days as days of misery. Her mum knew that she needed extra support but the school refused to accept this. They suggested that she was not very bright, did not keep well and spent a lot of time absent from school. School was the last place this girl wanted to go to and by the time she […]

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Amy receives the Barony College Trophy for Inspiration

Posted on Friday, December 4th, 2015

Amy was referred to Lead Scotland by her guidance teacher at school. After being accepted by Lead Amy joined our MCMC (More Choices More Chances) SCOPE (Socialisation, communication, opportunities, progression, Effective Citizenship) group in Westhill where she worked on improving many skills such as IT, budgeting, confidence and social skills. We supported Amy to apply […]

Rachel’s Story

Posted on Friday, December 4th, 2015

Rachel was referred for an Activity Agreement by Social Work as she left school after a poor experience regarding transition. Rachel moved from Children and Family Services when she was 18 and worked with Lead one to one to smooth her transition and help her to find her next positive destination. Rachel has a very supportive […]

Lisa became a self employed Aromatherapist

Posted on Friday, December 4th, 2015

Lisa is a single parent with two children. She told the Lead Scotland Learning Co-ordinator that she would like to get away from needing benefit support, but she had no qualifications. During discussions and advice meetings she decided that she would like to have a job that would enable her to be available when the children […]

Getting Digital

Posted on Friday, December 4th, 2015

“Everything is computerised – I wanted to learn about it to not get left behind.” Wendy was referred to the Locality Link Officer as part of a group referral and expressed a desire to learn how to use a laptop to keep in touch with family, use e-mail and Skype, and to be able to […]

Improving disabled learners’ progression through learning in colleges (Feb. 2015)

Posted on Friday, December 4th, 2015

Background Recent research from the Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) found that disabled learners in colleges are not progressing as well through Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) levels as well as non-disabled learners. ECU therefore asked Lead Scotland to carry out research to find out why this might be happening. We therefore conducted two surveys […]

Fraserburgh learners

Posted on Tuesday, December 1st, 2015

A group of six adult learners improved their literacy and numeracy skills over 10 weeks supported by Barbara, our Moray Learning Co-ordinator and two volunteers. “I have enjoyed coming to the group. I am more confident in using numbers and writing things down. I was able to recognize all the coins and I was able to […]