ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Amber Initiatives</title> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1251"> <META content="Amber Initiatives provides practical support for migrant workers in the UK and for those planning to come" name=description> <META content="Amber initiatives, service, workers registration scheme, national insurance number, health service, birth of children, registering birth, embassy, translation, interpreting, housing issue, drop-in-service, helpline, estonian, lithuanian, polish, russian, english, english language, free english lessons, PA8, integration, local community, sport week, amber" name=keywords> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"> </head> <body leftmargin=0 topmargin=0 marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" bgcolor="#ffffff"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" height="100%"> <tr valign="top"> <td width="50%" background="img/bg.gif"><img src="img/px1.gif" width="1" height="1" alt="" border="0"></td> <td valign="bottom" background="img/bg_left.gif"><img src="img/bg_left.gif" alt="" width="17" height="16" border="0"></td> <td bgcolor="#95A2AB"> <table width="780" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td><img src="img/logo.jpg" width="790" height="105"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td background="img/fon03.gif"> <div class="left"><A href="index-eng.html">Home</A> | <A class=left href="about-eng.html"><B>About us</A></B> &nbsp; </DIV> </td> </tr> </table> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="780"> <tr> <td height="14" background="img/fon01.gif"></td> </tr> </table> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="700"> <tr bgcolor="#EAE4D3" valign="top"> <td align="center" width="60%" background="CCFF99"> <br> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="541"> <tr> <td><img src="img/t11.gif" width="10" height="22" alt="" border="0"></td> <td background="img/fon_top.gif"><img src="img/t12.gif" width="29" height="22" alt="" border="0"></td> <td background="img/fon_top.gif"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="164" height="22"> <tr> <td background="img/t_top.gif"><p class="title01">ESOL provision</p></td> </tr> </table> </td> <td background="img/fon_top.gif" align="right"><img src="img/t13.gif" width="29" height="22" alt="" border="0"></td> <td><img src="img/t14.gif" width="9" height="22" alt="" border="0"></td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td background="img/fon_left.gif"><img src="img/t21.gif" width="10" height="133" alt="" border="0"></td> <td colspan="3" rowspan="2" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <p class="left"><img src="img/dot_g.gif" width="5" height="5" alt="" border="0" align="middle"> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; <B><I> English Language Club ( ESOL provision) </B></I> <P> 38% of our clients have cited lack of English language as their biggest problem . Lack of English impacts on both their effectiveness and personal safety in the workplace, impedes participation in UK society, leaves them in ignorance of potentially important information such as legal obligations or entitlements, creates problems between landlord and tenant, increases tensions with host community, inhibits abused migrants from police reporting, and increases vulnerability to exploitation by employers. <P>Amber Initiatives sees the barrier to information and integration due to poor English as the single most debilitating factor for minority multinationals. <P>English language courses locally are oversubscribed and at held at times which do not sit well with common working hours. <P>An English language teacher currently volunteers to provide ESOL training on a Sunday. 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