This manual is intended to provide practical help to those local educational agencies, colleges, and institutes in Great Britain interested in developing educational programs for the unemployed. Section I is an introduction. Section II describes the conceptual framework, which includes five general areas: employability, coping, context, leisure, and opportunity creation. Each of these areas is expanded in terms of curricular aims, content, delivery, and resource. This section also discusses the conceptual, ethical, and political issues that are raised by the different options. Section III focuses on the management and implementation of curriculum development and looks not only at underlying principles and policies but also at a variety of practical issues related to the design, implementation, and evaluation of programs for the unemployed. It closes with a curriculum planning checklist intended to help those charged with planning such programs. Section IV provides general outlines of the five case studies of "good or interesting practice" that are discussed in detail at relevant points throughout the text. Appendixes include references to resources, including the provision that is possible through Manpower Services Commission funding. (YLB)