This guide is intended for continuing education tutors in England who are concerned with the design and implementation of curricula intended to promote the development of social and life skills (SLS) in 16-19 year olds as part of a Unified Vocational Preparation scheme. After a brief description of the background and the current usage of the term "social and life skills," the guide offers the authors' views of the nature of SLS teaching (i.e., that it is an area of personal development, rather than a subject or course). The guide then offers a planned curriculum as a hypothesis, suggesting that teachers using it test its feasibility and effectiveness. The curriculum offered provides a framework in which experimentation can take place constructively, and some instruments to help with testing of the hypothesis. Models of SLS development are provided for experimentation. The document concludes by considering some of the practical issues which arise in the course of implementing curricula, such as selecting content for SLS schemes and evaluating SLS offerings. Descriptions of publications which may be sources of teaching and learning materials are contained in the appendix to the guide. (KC)