Ms Aileen Morrissey:

On that point, I believe that the trade union movement and our community-based colleagues are best placed to encourage early school leavers back into education through our own networks and structures, such as shop steward mechanisms. We used that through the skills for work initiative. We actively engage with the VECs to encourage people into literacy programmes. It is not all about the award, although that is a great goal to achieve. The point is transferability of skills, and it is not only for people who are unemployed, although they are many. We have to think about the people in employment who need to be up-skilled, whose literacy problems need to be addressed, and encourage them back into education. Our constituents are best placed to do that and to help get people back into education.