Category

• Promising Local Practice

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Poverty impact

• Prevention

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Poverty driver

• Provide benefit in-kind (experience)
• Non-driver - improving quality of life

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Keywords

• Adult education
• Children and young people
• Refugees and asylum seekers
• Educational support
• Ethnic minority groups

Aim

The organisation's broader objective is to support refugees and people seeking asylum in Glasgow. The Homework project objective is to construct an educational support hub for people with learning disabilities and from disadvantaged backgrounds. The ESOL and the IT Skills for Integration project “wants to support members of its community acquire both language and computer skills which will facilitate the support of children in education, allow adults to pursue further education, and enable adults to pursue higher skilled and higher waged employment”.

Summary

Inclusive Homework Club is a charity located in Glasgow that provides educational support to ethnic minority groups, refugees and people seeking asylum. Their core project is the Homework support for families who live in the South of Glasgow, matching tutors and students. They also deliver ESOL and IT Skills for Integration Project to support the parents overcome the different challenges of language exclusion and added intersecting disadvantages that they face. Some of their activities are delivered through partnerships, which in the case of the ESOL and IT is linked to the Glasgow Clyde College as a pathway to enter into the ESOL classes of the college or, in the case of the Digital Skills it is a SCQF level three course.

What difference does it make?

The Inclusive Homework Club provided a space for kids from ethnic minority and deprived backgrounds to improve their school performance, mainly in mathematics. The project provides support for families who, due to sociocultural differences and intersecting disadvantages, face challenges in helping children and young people with their homework. The project helps specifically target minority ethnic communities to support with educational challenges arising from the layered disadvantages with low income status. According to the 2022 annual report, 5 students progressed into Higher Education. For the ESOL and IT skills for inclusion project, the learning space supported building increased confidence in the users’ digital communication, improving their employability.

Key take-aways

• Children and young people who are involved in the educational support project show an improvement in their educational performance.
• Education projects focused on young people and students can further support inclusion and integration of ethnic minority groups, asylum seekers, and refugees by broadening their focus to the family as a whole and offering ESOL and digital skills classes for parents.
• Educational support programs can support with integration and reach groups that are excluded from benefits, for example the families of people seeking for asylum.

 

Organisations

Inclusive Homework Club

Location

South Glasgow

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