A Benchmark Approach to Relevance of Literacy
Effective Transition Systems - Key Feature No. 4

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Key Feature	Characteristics	Author	Thesis	LLN Relevance
Tightly knit safety nets	Quickly pickup and reinsert drop outs	Curtain	Punitive and unsupportive regime at present works against motivating young people at risk or disaffected Dusseldorp Skills Foundation	LLN policy within education as underpinning capacity of implementation at local level and active participation LLN field could offer strategies in a less punitive environment
Tightly knit safety nets		Hunter	Indigenous people coming off social benefits are almost totally disadvantage by moving to employment Centre for Aboriginal Economic Research
Tightly knit safety nets Tightly knit safety nets		Victorian VET Review - seminar	Regional lack of coordination and overlap of services, limited funding base, service inconsistency and time limited Focus on the individual impacted by the insecurity of the service, staff turnover	LLN part of close individual follow up and must be part of the coordination of services
Tightly knit safety nets		Bentley and Gurumurthy	Cohesive policy and implementation challenges the present system in Britain but is required to assist young people who are not registering and unknown in terms of need Demos Foundation	LLN implied as playing role in that cohesion
Tightly knit safety nets		Svendsen	Description of educational exclusion and national policy forcing institutions to be inclusive	LLN relevant but same characteristics for success as general education — need for strategies by LLN policy to outreach
Tightly knit safety nets		Schwab	Indigenous retention rates and participation — characteristics for retention of indigenous young people — community and family	LL&N heavily implicated
Tightly knit safety nets	Coordinate education, employment and welfare policies which increase incentive for active participation for education, training and employment	NCVER	Fragmented services at local level - no single action - work together There are already working models	LLN is not coherently within those working models - there could be improvment
Tightly knit safety nets		Department of Families and Community Services "Participation Support for a More Equitable Society" - Technical Appendix 6: International Developments in Welfare Reform	Issues are growing income support despite economic growth, persistent poverty, need to reduce or contain welfare expenditure, problems with incentives to work, changes in labour market, changes in family formation Department of Families and Community Services	Higher levels of LLN to negotiate innovations to social security
Tightly knit safety nets	Close individual follow up and support through local delivery to coordinate services across several policy domains and levels of government	Beresford	Interagency approach — identifies groups most at risk	LLN part of close individual follow up and must be part of the coordination of services
Tightly knit safety nets		Department of Youth and Community Care — Qld — National Youth Taskforce	Pathways youth policy, education and VET A taskforce approach building consensus through Commonwealth / State consultation	Exclusion of LLN from the process - implications for fragmentation
Tightly knit safety nets		Department of Education, Training & Youth Affairs Commonwealth Status Report - Youth Bureau - February 2000	Ten areas reported	Diversity of programs — LLN a sub-program
Tightly knit safety nets		Sherington & Irving	Bureaucratic structures may work against appropriate collaboration
Tightly knit safety nets		Castleton et al	Examining accounts of homeless people	Personal goals of young people may accommodate collective and reciprocal exchanges which enhance wellbeing while LLN current model emphasises individuated literacy competency
Tightly knit safety nets		Department of Family and Community Services — Participation Support for a More Equitable Society - Interim Report, March 2000	Review of Welfare Policy	LLN not regarded as impacting on this policy Looking to social partners and community building not developing strong policy cohesion with other portfolios
Tightly knit safety nets		O'Hanlon et al for Department of Health and Aged Care - National Mental Health Strategy	A strategic approach to change based firmly in research Model projects for early intervention in the mental health of young people - reorientation of services - focuses on professionals as agents for change	LLN field could use this strategy for changing and improving educational services to young people
Tightly knit safety nets		OECD	Countries differ in arrangements for identifying students "at risk"
Tightly knit safety nets		Jensen & Seltzer	Networks are important — neighbourhoods impact on career paths/options

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