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unionlearn director welcomes £3m increase in Union Learning Fund

Liz Smith, director of the TUC's learning and skills organisation unionlearn, has welcomed the announcement by prime minister Gordon Brown that the Union Learning Fund will be increased from £12.5 million to £15.5 million next year.

Liz Smith said: "I am thrilled, as I am sure that unions will be, that the Prime Minister has increased the Union Learning Fund by three million pounds.

"Union learning projects all over the country, run by our 18,000 Union Learning Reps will be getting extra money to ensure that individuals who really need help back into education will be able to receive support and guidance to take those first steps back into learning.

"The Prime Minister has given a clear signal that union-led learning is central to the future not just of trade unions but of our country, calling union learning 'the biggest transformation of trades unions since the growth of the shop steward movement'."

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