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On going and recently completed projects
Mentoring
CREDS started a pilot project on mentoring for African, Caribbean and refugee youngsters in December 2003 as a result of a successful bid for Learning and Skills Council (LSC) funding. Given its success, CREDS has continued this project using service funds. Two Learning mentors provide one to one support for an hour each week to identified young people, and the majority of the sessions take place in schools, during or just after the school day.
Skills Development Project
This is partnership project between Cambridge City Council and Cambridgeshire Race Equality and Diversity Service of Cambridgeshire County Council. The Investing in the Communities Fund funds the project. 
The main aims of the project are to help adult Bangladeshi and Pakistani community members to access skills training through provision of bespoke courses and through support to access mainstream courses. The project also works with mainstream learning providers to adapt provision that is accessible to Asian women.
Roots of Languages and Cultures: Black and Minority Ethnic Young People’s Voices
This is a Heritage Lottery Funded project.
This has involved interviewing other young people and adults and rehearsing and organising musical events.
Social Inclusion and Active Citizenship (SIAC)
This is a Home Office funded project, which aims to tackle the social isolation experienced by the unaccompanied asylum seeking young people in Cambridgeshire, so that they are empowered to become active citizens and contribute to the development of the community. This is being achieved through community based recreational and cultural activities that are dedicated to linking young asylum seekers to their local community.
Routes: Analysis of 20th Century European Migration
The method will be based on valorising the potential of new technologies for exchanging and sharing information, for recovering, by means of direct sources and interviews, the historic memory both of the countries who have seen the arrival of migrants and of those who have seen the departure of immigrants in their past.
Through the study of the past the project aims to develop educational and training packages, created according to the most effective e-learning methodologies, addressing transversally the needs of school education, adult education and vocational training systems to interpret and deal with the integration of immigrants in the present.
For more information, contact: mahbubur.rahman@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
 Ongoing and Recently Completed Projects by the Team of Traveller Education
The National Strategies Gypsy Roma Traveller Achievement Programme is a cross phase national programme being piloted in selected schools across Cambridgeshire to close the attainment gap for of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller pupils in school by identifying and demonstrating models of good practice in a range of contexts. The programme aims to improve long term outcomes for Gypsy Roma Traveller and pupils through building capacity and sustainability at Local Authority and school level.
For further details please contact the Team for Traveller Education on 01223 508700
Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month (GRTHM) is a national initiative which was held for the first time in June 2008 and will run again in June 2009. The Team for Traveller Education staff undertake a range of activities with schools and community groups.
For further details contact Team for Traveller Education on 01223 508700 or visit the official website: www.grthm.co.uk
Children’s Workforce Development Project
Secondary Transfer Project - A project working with schools across Cambridgeshire with a specific focus on secondary transition and retention.
For further details please contact CREDS Team for Traveller Education on 01223 508700
E- LAMP (Electronic learning and Mobility project) - This is a DCSF funded project which explores the benefits of interactive software and websites, together with enhanced home-school communication to support distance learning arrangements for children whose schooling is interrupted by regular family mobility. There are currently 3 strands, one to support school-based children, one which targets KS4 pupils who are at risk of not attending and one co-ordinated by the Early Years team.
Traveller Health Team Project - A programme where CREDS Team for Traveller Education is working in partnership with Cambridgeshire Community Services and Ormiston Children and Families Trust to address the health inequalities experienced by the Gypsy/Traveller Community and improve their access to health and other services. The target audience is the Travelling community in Cambridgeshire with a focus on the most vulnerable such as homeless and roadside Travellers. The project will contribute to the Child Health Promotion care pathway for Traveller families with children
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