Over the last few years I have delivered Prevent and British values training for adult learning providers across the country in areas with very different demographics. Providers might be delivering ESOL, literacy, numeracy or access courses to adult students or apprenticeship qualifications to adults. They might equally be delivering yoga, art or foreign languages to daytime or evening classes.
Some staff worry about the idea of delivering British values to adult learners. They may be concerned that British values exclude learners who were born and brought up in other countries; sometimes they worry that adult leamers who have been born and brought up in the UK will see this as patronising. However, once practitioners integrate the exploration of British values into their lessons in a relevant way, this leads to interesting discussions about, and an understanding of, as Ofsted refers to it, “modern Britain”.
