the Merseyside Violence Reduction Partnership . Seven, previously unemployed, young people successfully completed the 3 apprenticeship programme and quali ed as Level 3 Youth Workers. All of these are now working as Youth Workers or continuing their studies at University . e success of this rst cohort led to calls to repeat the programme. Again, LEGCT provided seed funding, which generated further nancial support from the Liverpool Violence Reduction Partnership , plus Liverpool City Council and the ‘Power to Park Lane’ project. e ten young people recruited to this second cohort already provide additional support to Liverpool Youth Centres, in addition to developing their individual skills and knowledge. e success of Youth Works in Liverpool, concomitant with the continuing need for support for young people, means that we want the programme to continue with a new cohort of young people each September. We and our partners are currently seeking funding for this. LEGCT works with various schools, charities, and local education bodies. What are some of the ways it collaborates with others to support learning in Liverpool? e Youth Works programme exempli es LEGCTs successful collaboration with organisations beyond the Education Sector. Partnering with the LFC Foundation, Merseyside Police, Local Authority Ocers, and Youth Centre Managers, LEGCT has helped create meaningful opportunities for young people. As a result, the participants have secured employment and developed valuable skills and knowledge that will lay the foundations and support for their future careers. Liverpool has a long history of education reform. How does LEGCT ensure it keeps up with the changing needs of students and teachers today? Liverpool Council of Education (to use the original name) was a charity from its beginning. It has also been a Registered Charity, overseen by the Charity Commission, since charity registration was introduced in the 1960s. Today, the LEGCT Board of Trustees is guided in its duties by a formal constitution which has
Aigburth Vale High School was built by Liverpool School Board, and opened in 1909. e school was located - not surprisingly - in Aigburth Vale. e 1930 Directory gives the address as Aigburth Vale, Lark Lane. e postcard on the le was given to all pupils (including Beryl SHAVE in Form 4B, whose daughter Barbara sent it to me) from the Headteacher of the time, Jessica Lupton COATES. Born in Birkenhead in 1878, she had been headteacher since 1908. She was a linguist, gaining a degree at Oxford and studying in Leipzig and Jena in the late 1890s. Writer Bel Mooney, born just a er the end of World War II, says: “I went to Northway Primary School and then passed the 11+ to go to Aigburth Vale Girls’ High School. is was old-fashioned state educa- tion and it served me very well indeed.” Aigburth Vale High School closed in 1989 when it amalgamated with Quarry Bank to form Calderstones.
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