Did you know? 

The latest statistics show that:

• improved numeracy matters to Staffordshire businesses because it develops employees' skills and can boost productivity, increase profits and improve employee retention.
  
  
• almost a quarter (24%) of businesses feel that their workforce's basic numeracy skills needs improving.
  
  

Help to improve workforce numeracy

As part of the £4.2m received from government to support the development of Staffordshire's numeracy skills, providers across the county are offering businesses the chance to get their team's numeracy up to scratch through fully funded business-specific numeracy courses. It's all part of the 'Multiply' programme.

Who are these courses for?

• Any businesses with their main base in Staffordshire
• Individuals that do not have a Level 4/GCSE grade C or equivalent in Maths
• Groups of employees as long as they meet the above criteria

What's available and where?

• Acacia Training - offering support to all Staffordshire businesses
  • Targeted at people who require develop technical numeracy skills to support their next career steps or to develop specific numeracy skills in the workplace
  • Acacia will work with you to develop specific role-related activities that require specific numeracy skills to perform in the workplace
  • Context learning to building confidence and skills
  • Contact Acacia
• Acorn Training - offering support to all Staffordshire businesses
  • Targeted at people engaging with education for the first time or have had a significant break from learning
  • 45 learning hours with 30 hours of teaching and 15 hours of intensive 1-2-1 or small group work
  • Focuses on skills gaps and topics relevant to you
  • Particularly relevant for businesses in the health, social care and childcare sectors.
  • Contact Acorn Training 
• Axia Solutions - offering support to all Staffordshire businesses
  • Targeted at people that need a boost to their confidence before going onto qualifications or that have english as their second language 
  • Content based around the needs of employers, but can be formed around the application of functional maths in the workplace, e.g arithmetic, statistics, trigonometry and Microsoft Excel spreadsheet formulae, etc
  • Delivered over one day in small groups, face to face or remotely
  • Contact Axia Solutions
• Buxton and Leek College - offering support to businesses based in the Stafford or Staffordshire Moorlands districts 
  • Develop general and applied numeracy skills as based on your needs
  • Support to progress up skill level - including into Functional Skills qualifications
  • Can include help to develop mental arithmetic, estimation, percentages, fractions, ratios, etc, and the importance of data accuracy.
  • Contact Buxton and Leek College 
• Newcastle Stafford College Group - offering support to businesses based in the Cannock Chase, Newcastle-under-Lyme, South Staffordshire, Stafford or Staffordshire Moorlands districts
  • Courses built around your needs 
  • Could include numeracy development through topics such as Microsoft products, sustainability, social media and promoting your business
  • Helping to break down the fear of maths
  • Contact NSCG  
• South Staffordshire College - offering support to businesses based in the Cannock Chase, Lichfield or Tamworth districts
  • Targeted at workers that need skills in specific areas of maths to be more effective in the workplace
  • For companies that need a completely flexible approach
  • Online learning supported by contactable tutor
  • 1 hour every week in 6 week cycles
  • Contact South Staffordshire College 
• Staffordshire Chambers of Commerce - offering support to all Staffordshire businesses
  • Targeted at any business who wants to improve their employees' maths to be better at work, progress in their career or open- up more training opportunities
  • Offering functional maths skills directly related to the needs of individual businesses
  • Highlights skills in everyday business operations
  • 1 day learning
  • Contact Staffordshire Chamber of Commerce