Withdrawal of ESOL Plus Mandated Learning: NATECLA Statement

We are extremely concerned that the SFA (Skills Funding Agency) have this week not only retrospectively cut a further 3.9% from adult skills budgets set in March on top of the previous 24% already announced, but also cut all of the ESOL Plus Mandation funding from August 2015.

This will have an immediate and devastating impact on ESOL (English for Speakers of other Languages) provision across the country, with the timing of the cuts being particularly pernicious, not only after the implementation of existing cuts, but at a time during the college cycle where planning for the next academic year is finished, prospectuses have been published and learners and teachers are in place.

Full statement is available on

http://www.natecla.org.uk/news/803/Withdrawal-of-ESOL-Plus-Mandated-Learning-July-15

Jane Arstall
NATECLA

0787 568 3254

South and City College Birmingham
Hall Green Campus
Cole Bank Road
Hall Green
Birmingham
B28 8ES

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