An Essential Skills Action Plan

I am reading a paper from ANTA/ DEST called An Essentail Skills Plan, that exams future directions for basic literacy. It has a refreshing approach, talking about successful outcomes not only in terms of "employability" or "work ready" but functioning effectively socially in family and community contexts. The approach is less of a bandaid:

Short-term funding and strategies that set-up a competitive environment between providers of essential skill services are counter-productive to the development of sustainable partnerships and quality programs.6 Funding mechanisms need to be created that allow for flexible delivery of programs and encourage partnerships between organisations, with more flexible ways of utilising existing pools of funding being explored. Proposed new three-year funding cycles may help to facilitate greater collaboration for programs that seek to embed essential skills via a ‘builtin, not bolted on’ approach. Funding and support for successful and innovative projects and for new initiatives are particularly important.

I would love to hear what others think.