Every year each of 4 Local Life Long Learning Partnerships produces an Adult Learning Plan that sets out the priorities for action in each of the boroughs.

The Learning Skills Council South Yorkshire (LSCSY) in consultation with all of the 4 local Learning Partnership groups, have produced a Framework for ACL plans and delivery for the South Yorkshire area. It is anticipated that the local Adult Learning Plans for each of the boroughs (Rotherham, Sheffield, Barnsley, Doncaster) that relate to work funded by the LSCSY will be fully aligned with this framework by academic year 2007.

The framework identifies and describes the scope of Adult Community Learning Delivery in the following 4 main categories;

First steps learning:
This is broken down into 3 sub sections

	Skills for Life (Literacy, Numeracy and ESOL)
	Skills for work (to enbable people to develop the skills they need to ehance employability)
	First steps (Learning offered as an initial entry point into learning and from which learners are actively encouraged to progress to other forms of learning)

Skills for independent living;
“Learning which develops the knowledge, skills and understanding of adults with learning difficulties and disabilities for independent living in the community or which supports adults recovering from mental illness to engage in learning.”

Learning for personal development and well being;
“Learning for personal development and well being, cultural enrichment, intellectual or creative stimulation and for enjoyment, for which there is no requirement that learners must necessarily progress to other learning”

Learning for active citizenship and/or community development;
“Community based learning developed with local residents and others to build the skills and understanding for community participation and involvement including those required for social and community action”

There is an expectation that there will be a charge to learners for some of this provision as part of the government funding priorities and that a national and local fees structure will emerge in due course.