Consultancy
Solas Associates provide a creative service of advice and support that is available as and when it's needed - face-to-face or remotely.
We are concerned with understanding the whole picture with regards to the learning and development business needs of companies. Through this approach we provide an holistic and integrated consultation process.
We offer consultancy to SME's, local authorities, educational authorities and the voluntary sector.
Diversity and Equality
- We work with organisations to support them in devising and implementing their Equal Opportunities, Dignity at Work, Bullying and Harassment and Anti-Discriminatory Policies
- Our consultancy support goes beyond the 'tick-box' approach to Diversity and Equality in the workplace.
- We support organisations by devising monitoring systems, evaluating recruitment and selection processes and implementing Equality Impact Assessments
Management and Personal Development
- Our approach supports managers and aspiring managers to enhance their people management skills
- We facilitate our consultancy through focused sessions, action planning and follow up advice
- We help our clients to unlock their potential within a non-threatening environment
Early Years Consultancy and Support Learning and Development
- Our specialist advisers offer a unique consultancy service for Early Years Units and their Providers, founded on our experience of working in the field in the classroom, community education programmes (Sure Start) and specific literacy and development projects for under 4's.
- We work with you in interpreting new and recent legislation, frameworks and Government initiatives. We can present this information in conference, seminar or workshop style.
- We work to The Government Agenda:
Every Child Matters
We have the tools to assist you in making the Every Child Matters Agenda a living reality in your area.
- By sharing our expertise and experience we can direct you to implement changes at the level that is right for your organisation.
- By providing training, seminars and conferences we can work with you to ensure that all initiatives and new ways of working are shared amongst your practitioners in the most cost effective and efficient way.
- By being creative we can devise monitoring and evaluation processes that will assist you in ensuring that changes you implement have been interpreted and introduced appropriately.
Children's Workforce Strategy
We have the vision, experience and drive to assist you in interpreting and working with the Children's Workforce Strategy, which sets out the government's vision of a world-class children's workforce. Developing a workforce that is 'increasingly competent and confident, inspiring trust and respect from parents and carers, as well as from children and young people themselves' (Children's Workforce Strategy) is a challenge that we can support you in to deliver.
Our experience gives us the skills to work with you to reach the targets, to
- Recruit more high quality staff into the children's workforce
- Retain people in the workforce including by offering better development and career progression
- Strengthen inter-agency and multi-disciplinary working
- Promote stronger leadership and management
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