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Champion Colleges
Education for people with learning disabilities
We want to see more people with a learning disability attending local colleges.
We want more young people choosing local colleges to study a variety of different courses and to have access to the right support. This will give them the opportunity to be able to move onto further education, training and / or employment near where they live and where their friends and family live.
We want more adults (Those people over the age of 19) with a learning disability attending local colleges. With the right support adults with a learning disability could attend courses at an appropriate time that best supports them with planning to enter into education, training and / or employment. Colleges also run a number of short courses, or 'enrichment' courses, that more adults with a learning disability could access if they had the right support and information.
Champion Colleges and Future Focus Centres
The idea of having a Champion College and a Future Focus Centre in each LIG area is to support people living in Hampshire to identify at least one college near where they live that has made a committment to working with Hampshire Adult Services to support people with a learning disability.
A Future Focus Centre will:
Provide a base within local Colleges from which Adult Services staff [and providers of services for adults with a learning disability] can work directly with learners accessing the College who have a learning disability. This will better place professionals to provide individuals with the appropriate support and information to move successfully into [mainstream] education, employment and / or training.
Enable Adult Services staff and partner organisations to provide personal care and support to individuals with a learning disability wishing to attend a mainstream [College] course. This support should support students with a learning disability by;
a. enabling them to attend a local College as opposed to a specialist College placement
b. helping to move them away from current discrete provision within local sector College’s
c. freeing up time for Tutors and LSAs who have predominantly undertaken personal care and support for students in the past
d. enabling better access to local College’s for any individual with a learning disability, regardless of age and ability
The Future Focus Centre is planned to be flexible in it’s proposed use and could support other people accessing the College in the future.
