Tackling disadvantage

A new unionlearn report shows the impact of unions in widening opportunities to take up learning and skills by tackling disadvantage, identifying and removing barriers and implementing effective strategies.

Tackling disadvantage, based on an analysis of the huge volumes of case materials generated by unionlearn, aims to answer three questions:

• how do unions identify barriers to learning and what are the most significant?

• what is the unique contribution of union learning and its specific approaches and techniques to breaking down these barriers?

• what conclusions can we draw from the unique contribution of union learning?

The report looks at some of the barriers to learning and the disadvantages created by them.

www.unionlearn.org.uk/publications/tackling-disadvantage-unionlearn-effect-opening-learning-and-skills