The Pave Project Report - Queen's University Belfast

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“We’ve done erm… we call it ‘(name of a course)’ and ‘(name of a course)’, it’s
learning you to be positive, to be strong as a woman. … We’ve done erm… digital
photography. Our photos is on the wall. We have done art. We do ceramics every
Friday. We love it to bits. We do… English every Thursday. And… at the minute, we
are putting in for swimming lessons for the ones that can’t swim. Now, the courses
we’ve done has really helped us. It helped us to be stronger.” (Interviewee A)
“The tutor will come from [further education college] and erm… she will facilitate
then the class and it’s usually for two hours. It’s on every morning. We have maybe
three, four, classes on a week. And erm… that will… probably be a fifteen or thirty
week course, depending on what the course is. Erm… but they are really, really
good courses…” (Interviewee D)
Recommendations:
Based on our findings, services could be categorised as indirect services if they
include the following:
1. Facilitated by all workers, although some may have specialist skills;
2. offered to service users on request;
3. offer in a variety of formats, such as courses, one-to-one meetings, training
sessions, workshops;
4. usually offered in structured but flexible way.
Figure 9 offers an overview of the number of service users in each of the service
categories.