PRS Training
What is this service?
Who it’s for
- Adults with SEND, learning disabilities, or neurodiversity
- Individuals experiencing anxiety, or low confidence
- People who are economically inactive, long-term unemployed, or distanced from the labour market
- Adults on waiting lists for other provision who need meaningful interim support
- Learners who are not yet ready for formal training
- Individuals at risk of social isolation who would benefit from community connection
How it’s funded
PRS Inclusion and Training Services works closely with prime ESFA contract holders, employment services, and delivery partners to provide fully funded education and employment-focused provision. Our programmes are funded through recognised education and employability funding streams, including Adult Skills and Tailored Learning funding and employment and pre-employment provision. This ensures that cost is not a barrier for learners, while giving commissioners and partners confidence that funding is used effectively to deliver high-quality provision, positive learner outcomes, and clear value for money. To access fully funded learning, learners must meet Government eligibility criteria, which includes being aged 19+, having a valid National Insurance number, and being unemployed or earning below the Government earnings threshold, in line with national adult education funding rules.
What’s involved / example activities
Our provision is highly flexible and shaped around the needs, interests, and starting points of each learner or group. Activities are delivered in safe, supportive community settings and adapted to suit different communication styles, abilities, and confidence levels. Accredited learning is delivered in a supportive, low-pressure way, with no formal exams. Learners build portfolios through practical tasks, activities, and real-life learning, supported closely by experienced tutors. Non-accredited provision often acts as a first step on a learner’s journey. Activities are shaped around individual interests and may include confidence-building, creative projects, wellbeing activities, community participation, and light-touch employability skills. There are no exams or fixed outcomes, just clear support and encouragement to help learners move forward when they are ready.
Example activities include:
- Confidence-building and personal development activities
- Employability and pre-work skills (at an appropriate, accessible pace)
- Maths and English Skills
- Community participation and supported volunteering
- Creative and practical sessions (arts, music, performance, crafts, photography)
- Independent living and everyday life skills
- Health, wellbeing, and social connection activities
- Small group projects that encourage teamwork and communication
Support is hands-on and relational, with clear routines, gentle progression, and a strong focus on what success looks like for each individual, not just formal outcomes. Many learners move between non-accredited and accredited provision as their confidence grows. Others progress into volunteering, supported employment, further training, or community activity. Our approach ensures learning feels accessible, meaningful, and achievable, whatever someone’s starting point.
A major component in the evolution of PRS has been my Vision to maximise community participation, learning and employment for all regardless of need, background, characteristics and ability.
PRS Inclusion and Training Services, established in 2006, places equality, diversity & inclusion at its core. With over 40 years of experience in Health, Education, and Social Care Services. Our vision drives community participation and employment for all.
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