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The Government is making changes to the way that it funds post-16 education and skills 30 March 2010

The Government is making changes to the way that it funds post-16 education and skills (apart from Higher Education); the proposed changes include a transfer of the LSC’s functions to several new organisations:

  • the Skills Funding Agency; an executive agency of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) responsible for channelling funding to Further Education colleges and other providers, and for overseeing the National Apprenticeship Service (NAS), Employer Skills Services, Adult Advancement and Careers Service, and Learner Skills Services
  • the Young People’s Learning Agency; a new non-departmental public body responsible for securing sufficient education and training provision for all young people, including those aged 16-19, and 19-25-year-olds being assessed.  to support local authorities and to ensure funding and budgetary control within the system
  • an increased leadership role for Local Authorities in the commissioning of learning and skills in their areas.
  • The LSC will therefore cease to exist from 31 March 2010 when the SFA and the Young People's Learning Agency will come into being.

More details on the proposals and Government consultation are available from the White Paper, ‘Raising Expectations: enabling the system to deliver’.

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