Business

9 Million adults in the UK have difficulties

20% of pupils are still not achieving the expected level in 

maths and English by the time they leave school -

schools minister Nick Gibb

40% of employees working in Fast Moving Consumer Goods

(FMCG), skilled manual trades beauty, fashion, design, and

logistics face daily literacy and numeracy challenges.

  Tesco, Terry Leahy, CEO:

  2010 conference Institute of Grocery Distribution

“employers like us are often left to pick up the pieces”

  Sainsbury, Justin King, CEO:

  Channel 4 ‘Kids don’t Count’

“Any system that only succeeds 80% of the time in terms of achieving its basic results needs changing. If we saw that in our business we’d be working out how we’d close that gap. I genuinely don’t believe that any of our youngsters need to be left in a position of not having basic skills.”

72% of employers plan to maintain or increase spending on  

training and only 18% of organisations have provided

remedial literacy andnumeracy training for school - leavers.”

Guardian 18 May 2010

What is the cost of not investing in the programme ?

2009 KPMG forced to pay £45,000 in discrimination case.

2008 Dyslexic PC awarded £25,000

1st October 2010 The Equality Act 2010  

"Provides a new cross-cutting legislative framework

to protect the rights of individuals and advance equality of opportunity for all

to update, simplify and strengthen the previous legislation

and to deliver a simple, modern and accessible framework of discrimination law which protects individuals from unfair treatment and promotes a fair and more equal society . .

. . . making it more difficult for disabled people to be unfairly screened out when applying for jobs, by restricting the circumstances in which employers can ask job applicants questions about disability or health” Government Equalities Office

It provides legal rights for disabled people in the areas of employment and education and, the Disability Equality Duty in the previous Disability Discrimination Act continue to apply.

These famous cases were successfully won by claimants who in some cases had not been diagnosed as having a difficulty such as dyslexia, at the time of their applying.

2009 KPMG forced to pay £45,000 in discrimination case.

KPMG has been ordered to pay £45,435.06 at an employment tribunal over its handling of a disability case.The Big Four firm let trainee Dhrupa Bid go after she twice failed the ICAEW's computer-based qualifying exams, as she was unaware of her dyslexia -   click here

2008 Dyslexic PC awarded £25,000

Case of Brooking vs Essex Police. A trainee police officer has won £25,000 compensation after being hounded out of the force for being dyslexic - click here

We work directly with Human Resource and training departments on programs that appreciate the difficulties so many people in the work place now face. We also support individuals directly so that in less than 2 hours they are spelling words that have always challenged them and are able to do mental arithmetic.

So frequently individuals chose an industry to avoid daily paper work, form filling, assessments and NVQ’s  but a recent promotion or change in the law means they are now faced with this dread.
Our tailored courses and programs are fast, fun, effective and offer a great return on investment. And what’s more, this will benefit your employees in every area of their life. The ultimate investment.

We deliver extensive and unrivalled, comprehensive training programs to help your employees improve and overcome dyslexia and develop their literacy skills.

We tailor programmes to meet your wants and needs.

At a time when every penny counts enabling  employees to invest in themselves will deliver the biggest returns.