Decision details
Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) Adult Education Budget and 16-19 Funding Contract for the Academic Year 2022/2023
Decision Maker: Corporate Director - Children & Young People
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Purpose:
The council has received funding from the ESFA
and predecessor organisations annually since 2001 to deliver adult
and community learning. Agreeing to the ESFA grant enables the
continuation of the council’s adult and community learning
provision in Herefordshire.
The council’s Adult and Community Learning Plan sets out the
plans for delivery in Herefordshire for the period 2019-2022,
agreed by the cabinet member for Children and Families on 2 May
2019.
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The current adult and community plan is being reviewed and
revised.
The aim of the plan is to deploy the ESFA funding to ensure that
Herefordshire residents have access to a range of appropriate
learning opportunities that will contribute to their personal,
social, educational and economic development.
The local authority is responsible for receiving the grant
allocation for maintained school sixth forms in Herefordshire and
paying these schools for delivery of education provision for
students aged 16 to 19 as per the ESFA funding guidance.
The ESFA grant contributes to the Herefordshire County Plan, in
particular the ambition for communities: strengthen communities to
ensure everyone lives well and safely together; and the economy
ambition to support an economy, which, builds on the county’s
strengths and resources. It will contribute to the delivery
plan’s priority to invest in education and the skills needed
by employers and supports the action to work with partners to
increase the Skills and Workforce in the county (supporting
objective EC3).
Adult and community learning programmes also contribute to the
ambitions of the Herefordshire Children and Young People’s
Partnership plan 2019-20204 by:
•Targeting resources and supporting vulnerable people aged 19
and over into learning including care leavers
•Improving the emotional and mental health and wellbeing of
adults including parents and carers
•Achieving success in life, learning and future employment
e.g. family learning, English, maths and employability
programmes
Contact: Darryl Freeman, Corporate Director, Children and Young People Email: darryl.freeman@herefordshire.gov.uk.
Publication date: 04/08/2022
Date of decision: 29/07/2022
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