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What is Skilled for Health?
Skilled for Health (SfH) is the national learning programme that embeds Skills for Life learning into health improvement topics. SfH courses and workshops address both the low skills and health inequalities prevalent within traditionally disadvantaged communities.
It has long been acknowledged that individuals and communities with low skills are often those that suffer the most social inequalities, and that have the most difficult challenges in managing their own health and in accessing health services for themselves and their families. They also face major challenges in accessing employment opportunities, and in being able to manage the multiple aspects of daily life.
This programme uses an embedded approach to add to our understanding of how these issues can be addressed. This approach is reflected in the use of an innovative national partnership to run the programme, consisting of the Department of Health (DH), the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) (formerly the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS)) and the learning and health charity ContinYou, which has overseen SfH since its inception.
The overall aims of SfH are as follows:
Health improvement:
- To contribute to reducing health inequalities by improving health among those communities which demonstrate the worst health outcomes.
- To enhance the ability of individuals within those communities to make informed decisions about health and well-being in a variety of different settings.
Enhanced engagement in learning:
- To use health improvement topics that embed Skills for Life learning as an incentive to engage and recruit individuals who do not traditionally participate in adult learning initiatives, with a view to supporting them to progressing into other learning opportunities – including, where appropriate, a Skills for Life qualification-based outcome.
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