INITIATIVES by Blackpool and the Fylde College to widen participation in further education and training have been praised at Westminster.

The College's winter training initiative for seasonal workers, its Integra project designed to give key skills in IT as well as the Claremont Junior School Family Learning Centre were praised as good practice in a submission to the Government's Select Committee on Education.

The examples were given by the Association of Colleges.

On hearing the details, Gordon Marsden, Blackpool South MP, described the projects as "good work to assist people experiencing social and economic disadvantage.

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