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EVENT
- 30th August 2002 - Partnership Launched To Improve Training
For Ethnic Minorities
Left to Right - Steve Pierpoint
(Programme Manager LSC), Angela Baugh (Positive Negatives /
SPAT-C Volunteer), Satish Sachdeva (Chief Executive - SPAT-C),
Clive Betts (Attercliffe MP), Muna Taha (Quality Manager - Yemeni
Centre), Cllr Mohammed Altaff (Darnall Centre), Angus Robson
(Chief Executive VCTrain)
Sheffield Darnall MP - Clive Betts and Sheffield
City Council Chief Executive Bob Kerslake were the special guests
at the of a new partnership of training organisations aimed
at improving training for the city's ethnic minorities.
The partnership, namely the Black & Ethnic
Minority 3.17 Training Cluster - with comprised of the lead
partner - Sheffield Positive Action Training Consortium (SPATC),
the Yemeni Training Centre, Awaaz training for Asian women,
Darnall Community Resources Centre and the Refugee Education
and Employment Project (REEP). Supported with £472,000
of European Social Fund (ESF) money from the Learning and Skills
Council (LSC).
It will enable the organisations to share best
practice and network more effectively, and is aimed at improving
training for ethnic minority groups in areas such as Information
and Communications Technology (ICT), Hairdressing, Employability
Skills, Basic Engineering, English as a Second Language, Media
Skills, and many more.
Satish Sachdeva, the SPAT-C Chief Executive
said: "The member agencies of our partnership include
some of the longest established and experienced training providers
in the city - Collectively we serve the training needs of well
over 1000 educationally disadvantaged and excluded members of
our community - It is indeed historic that, through this partnership,
members have chosen to set aside sometimes damaging and overly-competitive
considerations, in preference to collaboration and sharing of
expertise and know-how. Our particular thanks are due to the
Attercliffe MP, Clive Betts for his critical and timely support
in making the partnership become a reality."
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