How the Climbing Frame can help you

For ULRs

• As a one-stop-shop of learning and skills resources and materials
• Helps raise the ULRs ' profile
• Helps stimulate and drive up the demand for learning
• Can help recruit new members and ULRs
• Helps ULRs map out learning progression routes for union learners
• Can collate data on union learners
• Can produce individual action plans for union learners
• As a useful tool for monitoring and tracking learner progression
• Provides an accurate, up-to-date and accessible database of learner records

For learners

• Plan learning and track their progress
• Set and record achieved goals
• Record actions which are displayed in an Action Plan and on the Climbing Frame* grid
• Utilise the available resources and gain advice from their ULR*
• Print off reports about their own learning plans and achievements

For unions

• Helps raise the union's profile at the workplace
• Adds value to the union card
• Can be an aid to building workplace union organisation and growth
• Can include information about bespoke union education courses and help promote these programmes
• Provides unions with information about union learners
• Can identify workers' collective learning and skills needs so that unions can use this information for collective bargaining with employers

For employers

• Can be aligned to support development review processes
• Can help promote and publicise in-house training and development programmes
• Can help drive up skills and promote a culture of continuous development
• It is easily maintained and regularly updated
• Can help identify training and learning needs that could improve the organisation's performance and productivity

For Sector Skills Councils

• Can help to keep ULRs informed of new developments
• Can be customised to meet the skills needs of a particular sector
• A useful tool and resource for National Skills Academies*
• A valuable tool for providing sector-specific support for learners
• Can supplement and support SSCs* ' Skills Passports work