Strategic Priorities 2022-2023

Strategic Priorities 2022-2023

Man sitting at the front of an adult learning class with fellow learners in the background.

Newcastle City Learning Mission Vision and Strategic Priorities 2022-23

Mission/Purpose:

Providing opportunities in Newcastle for all to learn, improve and grow.

 

Vision

Enabling Newcastle city residents to grow and thrive by providing high-quality, relevant development opportunities, making a difference to the employment chances and lives of all our learners.

 

Key Objectives 2022-2023

 

  • To provide a relevant curriculum offer to meet the needs of adults, young people and employers training needs to support residents from the city of Newcastle Upon Tyne.

 

  • To offer high-quality educational experiences and support to allow the residents, both young and old, to improve their knowledge, skills and confidence to realise better life chances moving forward.

 

  • To sustain our continued positive financial position in challenging circumstances, post lockdown, to ensure the sustainability of the service within the city.

 

  • To raise our profile and reputation within the Council and the city as the number one provider of educational opportunities at foundation levels, helping people to become lifelong learners.

 

  • To play our part in the city’s levelling up agenda.

 

 

Newcastle City Learning is part of Newcastle City Council. Our staff share the values and behaviours of Newcastle City Council.

 

Newcastle City Learning sits within the Children, Education and Skills Directorate. It provides courses at two main sites Westgate College and The Heaton Centre as well as provision based in various smaller venues throughout the city. 

 

Newcastle City Learning provides a curriculum offer within the three main strands of adult education, including vocational, foundation learning and community learning.

 

In addition, the service has diversified in recent years to provide curriculum for young learners, both young people and adults with learning difficulties and disabilities, including those with High Needs funding. In addition, the service has a small apprenticeship provision.

 

Newcastle City Council- values and behaviours

 

Proud 

We take pride in and celebrate each other’s achievements

 

  • We have a positive, optimistic, can-do attitude
  • We do our very best to meet and exceed the expectations of our colleagues, customers, partners and residents
  • We help and support others to make a positive difference
  • We make sure that we celebrate and praise each other’s good work

Fair

We are honest and treat people equal to their needs

 

  • We respect and value every person as an individual
  • We listen to other opinions and points of view and embrace difference
  • We are decent, fair and compassionate
  • We act with integrity in everything we do
  • We are accountable for our actions and our performance

Ambitious 

We are passionate, determined, enthusiastic and want to succeed

 

  • We believe in making the most of opportunities to help us succeed
  • We achieve more when we work together
  • We are enthusiastic about change
  • We encourage others to be their best
  • We have the courage to change things for the better and make a difference
  • We are passionate about making Newcastle a great city

 

The service seeks to embed these values and behaviours in all that we do.

 

Much of our work is focused around supporting our residents to get back into work, and to find the confidence to once again, play a significant role within their local communities and families.

 

The Children, Education and Skill Directorate has the following ten priorities: -

 

  1. Support families to stay safely together

 

  1. Support babies and young children to have the best start in life

 

  1. Improve attendance and participation in learning

 

  1. Improve educational progress for all, and support vulnerable pupils, including those with SEND, to achieve

 

  1. Safely reduce the number of children and young people in our care

 

  1. For children and young people who are in our care, increase the number who stay in Newcastle 

 

  1. Improve children and young people’s social, emotional and mental health and wellbeing

 

  1. Help all young people into adulthood, to develop life skills and be ready for work

 

  1. Ensure opportunities for lifelong learning

 

  1. Reduce the number of children and young people living in poverty

 

 

Newcastle City Learning contributes directly to priorities 3, 4, 7, 8 and 9.

 

 

Young people progressing into our Programmes for Young People (PYP) at age 16 have not realised their full potential at school and require a programme of learning to help them to make the important transition to be able to gain the most out of higher-level vocational programme and/or employment.