Transition Arrangements
The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act received Royal Assent on 12th November meaning that the LSC will be dissolved.
Royal Assent for the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning (ASCL) Bill is an important milestone in the reform of the institutional structures of learning and skills. The Act of Parliament paves the way for the dissolution of the LSC and the creation of the Young People’s Learning Agency and the Skills Funding Agency; both of which will become fully operational in April 2010.
Today (13/11) a joint letter is being sent to all providers from David Cragg (Interim Chief Executive Designate of the Skills Funding Agency) and Peter Lauener (Chief Executive Designate of the Young People’s Learning Agency), to set out how each agency will work and how they see the relationship with providers developing in order to continue to be flexible and innovative in meeting the demands of both employers and learners:
How the Skills Funding Agency Will Operate
Overview of Responsibilities In New Young People’s Learning System.
Please refer to the BIS news pages for more information.
Machinery of Government
The Secretaries of State of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) and Department for Children, Schools And Families (DCSF), have announced the Machinery of Government changes
There will be two new bodies that will continue to drive ahead the huge agenda that we have been charged with since 2001.
1. For young people there will be a new national Non Departmental Public Body, the Young People's Learning Agency (YPLA) with some regional capacity, which will support local authorities in their new role in commissioning and funding 14-19 provision. Local capacity on 14-19 will therefore, as expected, be with Local Authorities.
2. For adults there will be a new Skills Funding Agency (SFA), again with some regional capacity, which will oversee the distribution of funds to the sector and manage the performance of FE colleges. The Agency will also house the National Apprenticeship Service (NAS), the National Employer Service, and the Adult Careers and Advancement Agency. As has already been announced, the Train to Gain brokerage service will transfer to Regional Development Agencies in April 2009.
Although there is still a great deal of work to be done to flesh out the detail of the proposals, what we now know is that in 2010 some of our staff will transfer to local authorities and some will move across to the two new organisations.
Even before that, some staff will move over within the LSC to work for the NAS which is aiming to be up and running by April 2009 at the latest. Throughout the transition period we will work with and support all our staff as we move to the new arrangements.
DIUS/DCSF produce a Transition newsletter so please follow the links and register yourselves.
