West Sussex Multiply Programme

Introduction

Part of UK Gov. Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF), administered by DfE, Multiply supports the Levelling Up mission to ensure that by 2030, the number of people successfully completing high-quality skills training will have significantly increased in every area of the UK.

Multiply specifically aims to help people improve their ability to understand and use maths in daily life, home, and work. Whether that be improving household finances, helping children with homework, making more sense of the facts in the media, or improving numeracy skills specific to a line of work. Multiply will offer a range of options such as free personal tutoring, digital training and flexible courses that fit around people’s lives and are tailored to specific needs, circumstances, sectors and industries and other innovative solutions for those who are aged 19+ and do not have a level 2 maths qualification."

For more information about 'Multiply: funding available to improve adult numeracy skills', please visit the site and read the guidance.

Subject to DfE approval of our Investment (submitted on 30 June 2022), WSCC will receive funding to deliver Multiply until March 2025. Multiply provision must not duplicate any existing state funded provision such as that currently provided through the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) Adult Education Budget (AEB).

West Sussex County Council is currently accepting bids for the delivery of the Multiply Programme in line with the interventions listed below. Providers who wish to deliver multiple interventions will need to complete an Expression of Interest for each of the interventions.

West Sussex Multiply "menu of interventions"

The following interventions are the key priorities for the current round of grant funding, delivery from September 2022- March 2023.

1. Provision / interventions which support moving into employment:
2. Provision / interventions designed to help people use numeracy to manage their money:
3. New intensive and flexible numeracy courses targeted at people without Level 2 maths, leading to a Functional Skills Qualification
4. Provision / interventions for parents wanting to increase their numeracy skills in order to help their children, and help with their own progression
5. Provision / interventions / activities developed in partnership with community organisations and other partners which engage with the hardest to reach learners
6. Provision of financial literacy training which will support start-up, micro and small businesses
7. Provision which supports businesses with the numeracy skills and understanding to measure their carbon footprint, identify the most effective measures to reduce their carbon emissions and plan and cost these initiatives.

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