Norfolk: Learning Catalysts and Family Work Stories

Abstract
The original idea for the project centred around ways of measuring and impacting on aspirations among communities in disadvantaged areas. King's Lynn has developed as a manufacturing town, particularly since its status as an Expanded Town in the 1960s and 70s. It serves a rural, traditionally agricultural, hinterland. The economies of King's Lynn and the Fens are over-reliant on sectors that are declining at a national level; and the area is characterised by lower-skilled, low earning employment. Unemployment is low but there are significant areas where long-term benefit dependency is evident. The issue of low aspirations is seen as endemic to the whole of Norfolk and has been identified as a key focus for the county in a document that has remained an important resource for the partnership's work.

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