The Learning Trust’s Family Learning team works with Adult & Community Learning (ACL) to enhance the quality of life for families in Hackney by creating opportunities and activities for them to learn together.

Family Learning programmes are co-ordinated by the Family Learning team, whose role is to offer guidance, training and support to Family Learning providers and promote Family Learning in Hackney.

If your organisation or project has an innovative programme that addresses a local need and corresponds with the Family Learning criteria, we would like to hear from you.

There are two strands of Family Learning that you could apply for:

Wider Family Learning (WFL)
WFL programmes are those specifically designed to enable adults and children to learn together or those programmes that enable parents/carers to learn how to support their children’s learning.

They aim to:

• Develop the skills or knowledge of both the adult and child participants
• Help parents/carers to be more active in the support of their children’s learning and development and to understand the impact of that support.

Family Literacy, Language and Numeracy (FLLN)
FLLN courses are all Skills for Life programmes aimed at and designed for parents/carers with literacy or numeracy needs. Family language is used to describe the programmes for families where English is not the primary language at home. They include a broad coverage of skills including Family English, numeracy and information and communication technology (ICT) courses and are not therefore just family ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) courses.

FLLN programmes aim to:

• Improve the literacy, language and numeracy skills of parents/carers
• Improve parents’/carers’ ability to help their children learn
• Improve children’s acquisition of literacy, language and numeracy

The Learning Trust follows course cost guidelines set out by the Skills Funding Agency (SFA). Click here to download a PDF containing more information.