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Partners and Links
Below are useful links to other organisations.
- Age Positive - Promotes the benefits of employing a mixed-age workforce that includes older and younger people.
- Association of Scottish Colleges - The policy and representative voice of Scotland's colleges.
- Business Gateway - Helping businesses tap into skills and training.
- City and Guilds - A leading provider of vocational qualifications in the United Kingdom.
- Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) - The UK Government department responsible for welfare reform.
- Determined to Succeed - The Scottish Government's strategy for enterprise in education.
- Equality and Human Rights Commission - Offers a guide on equal opportunities in Scotland and the work of the commission.
- ESOL Scotland - information about the adult ESOL strategy for Scotland and the new national ESOL panel.
- Federation of Small Businesses - The UK's largest organisation lobbying on behalf of and working for small businesses.
- FutureSkills Scotland - Provides detailed labour market information. In particular, Key Indicators and Research Online.
- Healthy Working Lives - Free occupational health and safety advice for employers in Scotland.
- Highlands and Islands Enterprise - Economic development agency for the Highlands and Islands.
- Institute of Career Guidance - The largest professional association for guidance practitioners in the UK.
- Jobcentre Plus - Provides a wide range of advice for anyone looking for a job and helps employers advertise vacancies and recruit suitable staff.
- Learning and Teaching Scotland - Provides advice, support, resources and staff development to the education community.
- Low Pay Commission - Government body that advises on the national minimum wage.
- National Qualifications Online - Designed to support learning and teaching in Scotland's secondary schools and further education colleges.
- National Training Awards - Celebrating investment in training.
- Nesta - Age Unlimited in Scotland.
- New Deal - A series of programmes run via the DWP to help people get back into work.
- Princes Trust Scotland - Offers support to young people and young adults to help make the most of their lives.
- Professional and Career Development Loans - Information on loans for vocational education and training.
- ProjectScotland - a portal through which young people in Scotland can access hundreds of full time volunteering opportunities in the environment, new media, arts, education and lots more.
- Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) - National body representing the voluntary sector.
- Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) - To help learners and providers of learning to understand how different learning programmes relate to each other.
- Scottish Enterprise - Economic development agency for the Lowlands and Uplands.
- Scottish Funding Council - The body that distributes funding for teaching and learning, research and other activities in Scotland's colleges and universities.
- Scottish Further Education Unit - The key development agency for Scotland's colleges.
- Scottish Government - Gateway to a range of information on government in Scotland; key policies, strategies, statistics and how the government operates.
- Scottish Learning Partnership - A voluntary organisation supporting and encouraging people who do not traditionally participate within the education system.
- Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) - The national body in Scotland responsible for the development, accreditation, assessment and certification of qualifications other than degrees.
- Sector Qualifications Strategy - A four countries' initiative to develop a cohesive approach to qualifications.
- Scottish Training Federation - Represents training providers operating in the field of work based training across Scotland.
- Scottish Union of Supported Employment (SUSE) - Support and advice for jobseekers.
- Skills Committee - Shared with the Scottish Funding Council, the Skills Committee provides advice on skills challenges and opportunities.
- Student Awards Agency for Scotland (SAAS) - A government agency which pays grants and bursaries to Scottish students in higher education and provides other forms of government support for learners.
- Student Loans Company - A public sector organisation, established to provide financial services, in terms of loans and grants to students throughout the UK.
- Talent Map - A UK-wide resource for businesses which assists in improving performance and competitiveness through funding, courses, contacts and support.
- The Alliance Scotland - Works to ensure that the whole of the Sector Skills Council network fully engages in skills and learning policy development and delivery in Scotland.
- The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) - Identifies small area concentrations of multiple deprivation across Scotland.
- The Volunteer Centre Network Scotland - Working to make it easier for people to get involved in volunteering.
- UK Commission for Employment and Skills - Aims to raise UK prosperity and opportunity by improving employment and skills.









