The ageing labour force, and concerns with productivity and social inclusion have driven foundation skills policy development in Australia and internationally (SCOTESE 2012; Newton 2016). However, little existing literature focusses on the relationships between foundation skills, community education providers and regional location. Thus, this review addresses the main national policy and funding arrangements affecting general foundation skills provision and productivity in regional areas as a context for the operation of community education providers in regional areas. Varying international definitions of 'foundation skills' and little research into foundation skills policy and its implementation makes foundation skills policy development challenging. Australia is the only country to use the term 'foundation skills' in policy documents and to explicitly include employability skills in the definition (Newton 2016, p.20) but most research has focussed on LLN skills. This document was produced by the authors based on their research for the report "Provision of Foundation Skills Training by Community Education Providers in Regional Australia" (ED610608) and is an added resource for further information.