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Age UK Training provides training in a number of sector-nonspecific skills, for work in any sector.
Many of our programmes have government funding available for eligible participants.
Our government-funded functional skills training is for school leavers aged 16 to 18, workers, job seekers and career changers in all sectors.
As a participant in the programme, you gain the core elements of English, mathematics, and information and communication technology (ICT) which provide the essential knowledge, skills and understanding you need to operate confidently, effectively and independently in life and work.
The programme supports you to develop functional English, maths and ICT at entry level 1, entry level 2 or entry level 3, or at level 1 or level 2, from most of our training centres.
We deliver our functional skills training on a rolling basis, at our training centres in Greater Manchester, London, the north Midlands, the north-west, the West Midlands, and Yorkshire. A programme may run for up to six months.
Email our training centres in Greater Manchester, London, the north Midlands, the north-west, the West Midlands, and Yorkshire, about our functional skills training.
Walsall Lifelong Learning awards 2006
Our tailored in-house programme of short courses for national vocational qualification (NVQ) assessor and verifier awards enables employees, volunteers and career changers to gain A and V unit awards and become NVQ assessors and verifiers. The programme may have funding available for eligible participants.
We deliver our NVQ assessor and verifier training on demand in the workplace, in England. A programme may run for a period of up to six months.
Email our commercial sales centre about our our NVQ assessor and verifier awards training.
Our information, advice and guidance qualification programme is for IAG practitioners in all sectors, who want to gain the benchmark national vocational qualification in IAG.
As a participant in the programme, you gain an understanding of functions such as working directly with clients, disseminating information, advice and guidance, and creating IAG resources.
The programme enables you to gain an NVQ for advice and guidance practitioners at level 3 or level 4.
We tailor the programme to practitioners’ needs. The programme may have funding available for eligible participants through Train to Gain, the tailored training programme we deliver through care organisations.
We deliver our information, advice and guidance qualification training on demand in the workplace, from our training centre in the north-west.
Downloads
A download is a document (like a research report, a leaflet, or an application form) that can be transferred from our website to your computer. You can download a file, view it on your screen, print it, or save it to your computer.
PDF stands for ‘portable document format’.
Most downloads on this website are PDFs. We use this format to ensure that the document looks the same on everyone’s computer (website pages, by contrast, appear differently depending on how people have set their computer up).
Computers use a program called Adobe Acrobat Reader to download PDFs. If you try clicking on a link to download a PDF and it doesn’t work, you will need to install Adobe Acrobat Reader onto your computer.
The process is quite straightforward and is free.
PDFs cannot be changed. If you need to be able to type into a downloaded document (for example, if we are offering a letter template that you need to put your name on) we will provide it as a Microsoft Word document rather than a PDF. You can then download it, type into it and save it to your computer.
Downloads will open on your computer in a new browser window.
Inside this window (below all your web browser menus), there will be a toolbar with options for you to print or save the document.
Close the browser window to return to the Age UK website.
We have made every effort to make our PDFs accessible to screen readers. Here is an overview of your accessibility options available in Acrobat Reader. Please ensure that you have downloaded the latest version of Acrobat Reader from the Adobe Reader website to ensure that they are included in your version of the programme.
You can use Adobe Reader to read a PDF out loud with the following shortcut keys:
You can also convert a PDF into a web page by following these steps:
You can convert a PDF document into a text file for use with other software and hardware such as Braille printers by opening the PDF and choosing ‘Save as text’ from the File menu.
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