Funded courses for parents
Free part-time courses for parents and carers earning £33,000 or less.
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If you’re a parent or carer earning £33,000 or less, you may be eligible for funding to study or train part-time at NESCol.
This funding can help you gain qualifications, secure a new job or progress in your current career.
Priority is given to the following groups, although everyone eligible is encouraged to apply:
- Lone parent families
- Families with a disabled adult or child
- Larger families (three or more children)
- Minority ethnic families
- Families with a child under one year old
- Families with mothers under the age of 25.
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RISE Fund
The Raising Income through Skills and Education (RISE) Fund is designed to help parents and carers build new skills with training that fits around family life.
To be eligible for the RISE Fund you must:
- Be living in Scotland full-time (including those with refugee status or asylum seekers)
- Be a parent or carer
- Have a child at home who is under 18 years old
- Earn an individual income of below £33,000.
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Training Access Fund (TAF)
The Training Access Fund (TAF) helps in-work parents and carers access free skills courses to help them progress in their careers.
To be eligible for the TAF, you must:
- Be living in Scotland full-time (including those with refugee status or asylum seekers)
- Be a parent or carer
- Have a child at home who is under 18 years old
- Earn an individual income of below £33,000.
Flexible Workforce Development Fund (FWDF)
The Flexible Workforce Development Fund (FWDF) aims to upskill parents, carers and young people in employment.
The FWDF encourages businesses to offer training opportunities that meet employer needs, while helping their team gain new skills and progress in their careers.
Please note: This Fund is not the same as the FWDF initiative launched in 2017.
Funded training opportunities are only open to workers with an annual income below £33,000, who are either:
- Parents or carers of a child aged under 18 living at home;
- Aged under 24, or
- Care-experienced or disabled and aged under 30.
The Fund is available to all employers operating in Scotland who implement (or are working towards implementing) Fair Work Practices.
Applications can be made either by an employer or an individual worker.
If you’re applying for yourself, you must confirm that your employer is aware of your intention to access training through the fund.
Register your interest
Complete this form and one of our team will get in touch with you. Alternatively, contact the team by email: workforce@nescol.ac.uk
