Basic Skills Agency
The Basic Skills Agency is responsible for overseeing the implementation of the national strategy for basic skills, which are defined as the ability to read, write and speak in English and to use mathematics at a level necessary to function and progress at work and in society in general.
Their main priorities are: improving the speaking and listening skills of children, young people and adults; improving basic skills at transition points in a child's, young person's or adult's life, engaging disengaged children, young people and adults and adults in improving basic skills.
For more information contact: 0207 405 4017 or www.basic-skills.co.uk
