Family learning target groups

The Adult and Community Learning (including Family Learning) Strategic Plan 2007/8-2009/10 identifies the priority groups for family learning as:

• Ethnic minority families
• Traveller families
• Children with disabilities and/or learning difficulties and their families
• Children and young people with mental health needs
• Fathers
• Young parents
• Young carers
• Families needing support to learn English as an additional language
• Looked after children with their carers
• Families living in disadvantaged areas

In addition to the specific groups mentioned above family learning also targets children and adults who have the lowest levels of achievement in numeracy and/or literacy and groups that suffer the highest levels of poverty, deprivation and social exclusion.