Practitioner Resources
How can we help?
Our Priority Cohorts
People with disabilities
Women returning to work
Women from the global majority
How do we support priority groups?
We want to connect with you to improve our understanding of barriers and challenges for south London residents when trying to access jobs and skills opportunities. By collaborating with the South London No Wrong Door Integration Hub, you can help create more place-based pathways for south Londoners, towards and/or into skills and employment support, for all residents, and for specific target groups in south London.
What we do for our boroughs?
1192
Referals from target groups
76
Activities or events
414
Residents engaged directly
1531
Partners or employers engaged through our activities
Skills and Employment Champions
At South London Partnership, we are committed to recognising and celebrating the achievements of our partners and learners. That’s why we’re excited to introduce our new initiative: the Skills and Employment Champion Badge!
Benefits of the Badge:
- Acknowledgment of your commitment to enhancing skills and employment opportunities.
- Verifiable digital badges to highlight your skills across platforms.
- Enhance your CV, email signature, and social media profiles, highlighting your expertise.
- Connect with professionals and organisations for collaboration and support.
- Stand out in the job market with tangible evidence of your accomplishments.
- Participate in workshops and events that contribute to your professional development.
- Motivate peers to pursue their own learning and growth.
- Access tailored support, training sessions, and community events for badge holders.
- Position yourself as trusted advisors on programme delivery and gain access to new initiatives that can benefit your residents or service users
Working together with Partners
Find a Job You Love – with Successful Mums
In July 2025, we partnered with Successful Mums on their ‘Find a Job You Love’ event. With over 100 economically inactive women returners and mothers attending, this event shows not only the demand to support Croydon mums, this also demonstrates the resilience of these women.
These community events bring together a wonderful mix of the community, including, Mums, Parents, Work Coaches, Councils, Employers and Local Business Owners too. We covered a range of topics in the Croydon sunshine including personal pitch, CVs, personal brand, new career ideas, along with talks from employers, partners, childcare advice and networking, making human connections.
Useful Training Material
Bitesize Knowledge Exchange
These are bitesize knowledge sessions to provide information on specific employment support programmes in South London. This session was providing an update of the Work and Health Programme in South London.
Catch up with previous sessions:
Our Skills & Employment Guide
Residents guide to employment and skills in South London. Signposting and organisations to help find training or work.
More Useful Links
| ESOL | Subscribe to the GLA’s ESOL newsletter |
| ESOL SPOCs, Networks, Maps and Directories | |
| POST – 16 Phonics Approaches: A Toolkit | |
| GLA ESOL Planning (Census) Map updated | |
| We have recently updated the ESOL Planning Map to include data from the last Census on children and young people (aged 3 to 15 in 2021) who were reported as speaking little or no English at the time of the last Census. In addition, users can access borough-level data on the top 13 community languages spoken by Londoners who reported speaking little or no English. We welcome feedback and suggestions on the resource. | |
| GLA AEB Provider Map updated | |
| In response to stakeholder feedback, we made improvements to the Skills Provider Map, including the addition of new filters and a translate button. We have recently undertaken user testing to find out more about the impact of these changes and identify further improvements that can be made. Development of the map is ongoing, and we will be reaching out again to stakeholders later in the year to hear your views. Find out more. | |
| GLA Asylum Welcome Toolkit | |
| We are excited to announce that the GLA’s Asylum Welcome Toolkit has been published. The toolkit collates guidance and resources for local authorities to support the development of proactive, holistic strategies to welcome and integrate people seeking asylum. It features chapters on themes, from safeguarding to designing new forms of co-production for creating council services alongside people seeking asylum. The toolkit draws on the findings from the Asylum Welcome Design Lab which brought together 11 London boroughs to share good practice on their asylum strategies, and to explore ways to address ongoing challenges. Each borough was then supported to design an innovative new initiative which improved local authority service delivery for people seeking asylum. Lessons from these pilots are explored throughout the toolkit. Find out more. | |
| Social Prescribing | For more information and support at a London level on social prescribing visit the Transformation Partners In Health and Care webpages, which include details of a range of programmes and projects designed to support social prescribing in London. It includes an interactive map which aims to support the visibility of service models, key contacts for networking and examples of good practice across London. https://www.transformationpartnersinhealthandcare.nhs.uk/our-work/personalised_care/projects/ |
| The Social Prescribing Network (aimed at strengthening the role of the VCSE sector in delivering social prescribing activity) has free sign-up and provides access to a wealth of resources, including webinars, case studies, blogs and networking opportunities. https://londonplus.org/london-social-prescribing-network | |
| Simply Connect has created the London Social Prescribing portal which includes information and resources on how to get started in social prescribing, including case studies and toolkits. https://socialprescribinglondon.uk/ | |
| The GLA / Learning and Work Institute research and toolkit on social prescribing to adult education can be found here: https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/social-prescribing-into-adult-education-in-london-research-and-toolkit | |
| Social prescribing into adult education in London research and toolkit – London Datastore | |
| Adult Education | Guidance for who is eligible for Adult Education Budget funding can be found here: https://www.london.gov.uk/programmes-strategies/communities-and-social-justice/migrants-and-refugees/english-esol-classes-london/gla-adult-education-budget-update-migrant-and-refugee-advisory-panel-mrap-and-civil-society |
| The Skills Roadmap for London sets the direction of travel for adult education and skills in London over the Mayoral term and beyond, including future plans for the approximately £330 million per year Adult Education Budget https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/skills_roadmap_for_london.pdf | |
| AEB Rules 2023-24 | |
| The GLA has published version one of the 23-24 AEB Rules for London. Changes since the last version are indicated in the table of changes. Guidance for AEB providers on eligibility for migrant Londoners has also been updated to clarify that ‘Other non-UK nationals’ only need to be on a long-term visa (12 months or more). They do not need to have 12 months remaining on their visa on the first day of learning to be eligible for AEB funding. They must, however, be able to attend the full duration of the course. Guidance for civil society organisations supporting migrants and organisations supporting people on the Hong Kong BN(O) visa is also available. Find out more. | |
| Newsletters | Sign up to the Skills for Londoners newsletter | London City Hall |
| Mayor of London Communities newsletter | London City Hall | |
| South London Careers Hub Newsletter | |
| Recruiting Social Care Staff | https://www.adultsocialcare.co.uk/home.aspx |