13.1 All providers of learning will need to review their provision to ensure that it falls in line with the national strategy, vision for lifelong learning and core principles laid down to drive policy and practice. They should focus critically on how they should best meet the particular needs of learners identified in their own sphere of activity. Schools, colleges, universities, private trainers and those who provide or support learning in the workplace or community, will need to take stock of their own policies, practices and curricula. They will need to give particular attention to devising relevant approaches to outreach, guidance and staff development to support their contribution to making opportunities for lifelong learning available to all.

13.2 Support for learners, in all of its many forms, will be vital to their success, but so too will be transparent links and pathways between different forms and levels of learning provision. One responsibility of those engaged in provision will be to examine and improve their relationships with other providers, in order to open these pathways, ridding them of any unnecessary encumbrances of complexity, lack of fit and bureaucracy.

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