Aimed at:

Individuals who are working in the workplace and need Literacy, Numeracy or English as a second language.

Benefits:

Your company is only as good as your workforce. So if you improve your staff, you'll do your business a power of good. SLH have a range of courses to help you do just this.

What do we offer:

Our skills for life courses will ensure your staff are up to speed with their basic Maths and English which, research shows, can help your business in the following ways:

• Reduced staff turnover
• Increased efficiency
• Improved profits
• Enhanced customer service

Why your business needs to act now

Poor literacy and numeracy costs businesses up to £10 billion per year. Literacy, Education and Training and Their Impact On The Economy (Ernst And Young Report, 1997). 23% of people of working age are likely to have "very poor" literacy and/or numeracy.

A company employing 50-100 employees loses £86,000 per year due to poor literacy and numeracy skills. For companies with 1000 plus employees the cost could be as high as £500,000. The Cost to Industry, BSA (Gallup)

It is estimated that between 65% and 70% of employment opportunities will require a Level 3 qualification by 2010. Only 41% of UK 25-28 year olds held such qualifications in 1998. Of 19-21 year olds, the figure was 43%. Skills for all: Proposals for a National Skills Agenda (Final report of National Task Force, DfEE, 2000)