by Jasmine Griffiths | Mar 24, 2024 | Uncategorised
The ‘Inclusion at Work Panel’ was established in June 2023, under action 69 of the Inclusive Britain plan, to tackle bias, ensure fairness and promote inclusive workplaces. Made up of leaders from the private and public sector, and advised by a leading Harvard...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Mar 24, 2024 | Uncategorised
Future Skills Sussex aim to provide a wealth of information and resources on the projects they undertake, those of their partners and links to useful skills and labour market resources to support businesses across the Sussex area. The Intelligence and Conversations...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Mar 24, 2024 | Uncategorised
East Sussex County Council has approved 2 years of funding for the Transform Service for East Sussex employers, after its European Social Fund project funding came to an end in December 2023, meaning the Transform Service will continue its work with East Sussex...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Mar 18, 2024 | Uncategorised
The government is set to scrap small and medium-sized employer (SME) co-investment payments for apprentices under the age of 22. It also plans to increase the amount of funding that can be transferred from apprenticeship levy-payers to other businesses from 25 per...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Mar 18, 2024 | Uncategorised
SCTP attended the Skills East Sussex Engineering and Manufacturing Task Group that met on 15th March to continue activity as a sub-group of Skills East Sussex. Topics discussed included: findings from the Future Skills Impact Report – what are they/what is the...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Mar 17, 2024 | Uncategorised
As part of the skills reform, the Adult Education Budget (AEB) will be transitioning to the Adult Skills Fund in the 2024 to 2025 academic year. In ESFA-funded areas, the transition to the Adult Skills Fund will include new funding changes such as replacing Community...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Mar 17, 2024 | Uncategorised
ESFA have published version 2 of the technical funding guide for ESFA-funded skills bootcamps. The main change from version 1 is that they have added information about the new heavy goods vehicles (HGV) skills bootcamps that could start from February 2025. The update...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Mar 17, 2024 | Uncategorised
You can now contact DfE and the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) using the contact form within the Customer Help Centre. For more information on the portal, its benefits and how to use it, see the below help centre articles: Introducing the Customer Help...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Mar 17, 2024 | Uncategorised
Last week ESFA issued 16 to 19 allocation statements for most school and academy sixth forms, and this week they’ve started to upload them for further education colleges. ESFA expect to issue at least 97% of allocations by the end of March. There may be a very...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Mar 17, 2024 | Uncategorised
Latest from ESFA including: Information: 16 to 19 funding allocation statements for 2024 to 2025. Information: Additional teachers’ pension funding from April 2024. Information: The Customer Help Portal is now live. Information: The technical funding guide for ESFA...
