Adult Education
The City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee (CDVEC) provides funding for two tutors to provide basic adult education to Exchange House service users. The work of the tutors was reviewed at the end of 2002 and during 2003, changes were made in the service provision. It was decided to concentrate the efforts of the adult education programme in the Inner City Women’s group, in order to afford participants in the group the greatest possible opportunity to improve their literacy and Numeracy skills with a view to acquiring FETAC certification. This policy has been found to be very effective in improving the certification achievements of the members of the group.

The literacy tutors also provide an in-house service on Tuesday afternoons to provide literacy support to other service users who may wish to improve their skills and practice for their Driving Licence Theory Test.

The literacy support has been so beneficial that CDVEC has agreed to provide additional supports for 2005.