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The redesigned Skills for Education and Employment (SEE) Program is available across metropolitan, regional and remote areas of Australia. All Australians over the age of 15 who have left school and who need help with their language, literacy, numeracy and digital (LLND) skills are eligible. Training is offered in two distinct and complementary training delivery streams.
- General SEE Delivery: training of individuals by contracted training providers. This stream has been redesigned to offer both accredited and non-accredited training, provide more support for learners and include workplace-based training options.
- SEE First Nations: a new stream dedicated to whole of community training for First Nations people.
About SEE First Nations
SEE First Nations is specifically designed for First Nations people and organisations. Eligible First Nations people have the option to choose to access SEE training through both the General SEE Delivery and SEE First Nations.
SEE First Nations is being designed to support community engagement. Participants will have the opportunity to improve their LLND skills, which may lead to experiencing other benefits such as participating in work or further study; improving cultural, social and emotional wellbeing; higher levels of empowerment and self-actualisation; and improving the capacity and economic development of their community.
Improvements in LLND can also support work towards Closing the Gap by removing barriers to access education and training for First Nations people.
The program will fund place-based whole of community projects designed to meet the community’s English language, literacy, numeracy and digital literacy training needs. These projects will be delivered by organisations who receive a SEE First Nations grant.
Who can apply for a SEE First Nations grant?
SEE First Nations grants will fund First Nations organisations including Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations (ACCOs), registered training organisations (RTOs), Adult Community Education (ACE) providers or peak bodies (applying on behalf of their eligible members) to work with communities to design appropriate training. These organisations will need to demonstrate in their grant application that they have experience delivering this kind of training to First Nations Australians and they have true community support.
There are two types of grants available:
- Scoping Grants – provide funding for community engagement, and relationship and capacity building and to establish if there is a need for English LLND training in a community and to prepare an application for a Delivery Grant. Scoping Grants have a maximum value of $30,000.
- Delivery Grants – are grants to eligible organisations to co-design and deliver English LLND skills training to First Nations people. Delivery grants will typically be for between $350,000 and $1 million per year over a 2 to 3 year period for a single site, or up to $3 million per year for delivery at multiple sites. This is the major component of SEE First Nations.
Grant Opportunity Rounds
The Scoping Grant opportunity round (ongoing) is now open. For further information go to GrantConnect.
The Delivery Grant opportunity is now open and closes at 5pm AEDT on 28 February 2025. For further information go to GrantConnect.
