Adults with poor levels of English language skills can struggle to access education, find work, participate in their communities or support their children’s learning. This limits their life chances as well as making community cohesion more difficult and increasing demands on other public services.

We want all adults who could benefit from improving their English to have opportunities to do so. This would benefit them and their families, but also our economy, society and other public services.

Our work includes building the evidence of English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) potential to have positive impacts on people’s health, employment, education and participation in communities.

We are working to secure more integrated, coherent and effective learning opportunities in ESOL, and developing effective practice in the delivery of ESOL, focussing on approaches that secure progression and positive outcomes at national, regional, local and neighbourhood level.