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The Integrated Development Programme (IDP) is a two-year vocational programme for students with learning difficulties. For more than twenty years Atlantic College has been at the forefront of this type of training in Wales.

Established in 1982, the Integrated Development Programme aims to equip young people from within Wales who have mild to moderate learning difficulties with vocational qualifications and improved numeracy, literacy and personal effectiveness.

The learner programme is run over two years with students in the first year being resident at the college on a four-night per week basis. Ongoing basic skills training and a personal and social development programme are major features of the first year and the working day consists of daytime and evening activities. First years also undertake work tasters with local employers throughout the year in order to provide employability skills in readiness for their second year programme.

 

For the second year, students return home to continue their vocational training with a host employer in order to provide work-based evidence for their National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) at Level 1. Second year learners will also attend the college for off the job training in literacy and numeracy one day per fortnight.
Each year students gain in confidence and maturity, with most achieving all their target qualifications, training and subsequently a job.

 

The programme is delivered free to all learners and no repayable grant charges are levied, thanks to funding by the Welsh Assembly Government.

 

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