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Skills for Work and Life

Coming Onboard

Are you new to working with City & Guilds or exploring our Skills for Work & Life qualifications for the first time? Get to know Functional Skills in maths and English, along with our ESOL, Employability, and Personal Progress qualifications.

We offer “New to Us” sessions designed to help you get started with City & Guilds. In these short introductory sessions, one of our maths and English Technical Advisors will guide you through the essentials of delivering our qualifications in England, including:

  • Where to find key documents
  • How assessments can be accessed/booked
  • The teaching/learning resources we offer
  • Our practice-sharing networks
  • Details of our regular series of update webinars
  • And much more
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We also run regular “Virtual Link Up” sessions for English, Maths, and ESOL throughout the academic year. These interactive sessions are designed to keep practitioners informed and supported, offering the latest updates on qualifications, delivery approaches, and key developments. They provide a valuable opportunity to share best practice, exchange ideas, and learn from peers working in similar settings. Visit our Events and Webinars page to see the date of the next session and book your place.

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Guides

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Functional Skills delivery at a glance

This guide helps you to navigate the process of delivering our Functional Skills qualifications in maths and English with signposts to our key supporting information, resources and services available at every stage of the journey.

Download the Functional Skills Guide

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Maths, English and ESOL funding guides (England)

We’ve produced a set of funding guides listing every City & Guilds maths, English and ESOL qualification and unit that is eligible for public funding in England. There are two documents: one covering 16+ study programmes, the other covering adult skills.

Access our Maths, English And ESOL Funding Guides (England)

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Complete maths and English offer (England)

Maths and English are vital skills we all need to develop and keep using throughout life. Almost every job requires the ability to communicate and use numbers confidently, along with the capacity to problem solve and use technology effectively.

Download our Total Offer Brochure

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Functional Skills 10 step guide (England)

This guide is designed to get you quickly up to speed in delivering City & Guilds Functional Skills (4748) qualifications. It covers how to navigate the website, access all of the key information and utilise the guidance we offer.

Download the Functional Skills 10-Step Guide

Digital resources for learners and tutors

From our e-Functional Skills learning platform to SmartScreen, we have a range of digital resources which will support your blended delivery and help you give your learners an independent learning experience.

e-Functional Skills

A digital solution that fully compliments our new Reformed Functional Skills (4748), all the content is mapped to our qualification offer. Supporting in guiding learners from Initial Assessment and Diagnostic Testing all the way through to being exam ready, covering English, Maths and ICT from Entry 3 to Level 2.

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SmartScreen

SmartScreen is the City & Guilds tutor and learner support platform, providing online resources for our qualifications and apprenticeships.

Supporting over 150 qualifications and apprenticeships across 20 different industries, SmartScreen equips tutors and assessors with delivery tools and learners with engaging content.

Find out more about SmartScreen

Journey 2 English

We have partnered with Klik2Learn to offer Journey 2 English, a digital course for intermediate learners of English. It is aligned to City & Guilds ESOL Skills for Life (4692) qualification and available through our SmartScreen platform at a per-learner licencing model.

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Open Assess

Learners can take online sample practice tests on our Open Assess platform - an open version of e-volve. Open Assess replicates a live test environment and enables you to mark and provide feedback, helping to address areas in need of additional teaching support.

Find out more about Open Assess and how to access the platform.

To support you and your learners with getting the best from Open Assess we have a number of bite-sized videos walking you through various aspects of the platform.

Catch up on the webinar

In our latest webinar, our Skills for Work & Life team gave an overview of the new ESOL qualification suite launching next academic year including:

  • An outline of the structure and purpose of the new offer
  • What’s new, what’s changed, and what centres need to know
  • Sample assessments
  • The approval and onboarding process with key timelines

Download the slides


Webinar recordings for 2025-26

Future Ready Skills Supporting Learners to Re Engage, Upskill and Progress - Watch the recording (YouTube) or Download the slides (PDF)

(September 2025) SfWL Welcome back - watch the recording (YouTube)

Useful recordings

Getting to know Digital Functional Skills - watch the recording (YouTube)

Digital Resources: Everything English and maths - watch the recording (YouTube)

Digital Resources - watch the recording (YouTube)

Digital Resources: Interpreting Results – watch the recording (YouTube)

Digital Resources: Being Exam Ready – watch the recording (YouTube)

Digital Resources: Supporting a blended maths and English delivery  – watch the recording (YouTube)

Digital Resources: Initial and diagnostic assessments – watch the recording (YouTube)

Skills for Work & Life Support

Our specialist maths, English, ESOL and employability team provide:

  • Regular update webinars and virtual link ups to share all that’s new in Skills for Work and Life
  • Webinars to launch new features, products and services
  • In-person and online networking events for connecting and sharing of good practice
  • Email/online and in-person guidance to individual centres – tailored to their specific needs

Get to know the team

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Katherine Reid

Technical Advisor

Find out more about Katherine

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Alicja Twarowska

Technical Advisor

Find out more about Alicja

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Amanda Kelly

Product Manager

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Sandra Connor

Business Development Manager

Find out more about Sandra

Qualification pages

Visit our qualification pages for additional resources such as qualification handbooks, assessment materials, Chief Examiner reports and Guidance for Delivery documents.

Customer Updates

Our customer updates page is the home for all the updates and announcements about City & Guilds’ Skills for Work and Life programmes, including Functional Skills, Maths, English, ESOL and employability.

Find out more

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Quality and Learner Engagement Guides

Our 2023 research identified that improving quality, increasing learner engagement and enhancing the life chances of learners are the top priorities for those involved in the delivery of maths and English programmes.

Take a look at our guides for tips and hints on these topics, as well as how City & Guilds can support you and your objectives.

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Improving quality in maths and English

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Increasing learner engagement in maths and English

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Improving the life changes of learners with maths and English

Download the guide

Want to find out more about Skills for Work & Life?

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