Report of Acting Chief Executive
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Equipping Birmingham Adults with Essential Skills - Proposal to Receive and Spend Funding with Delegated Authority to Increase Delivery by Birmingham Adult Education Service
Report of Acting Chief Executive
Cabinet : 14/05/24
14/05/2024
For Birmingham Adult Education Service (BAES) to receive additional funding from the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) for the academic year 2024/25.
This additional Adult Education Budget (AEB) funding is ring-fenced by WMCA for formal qualifications classified as ‘foundation skills’ (up to GCSE or equivalent) for the following: English, Maths, Digital Skills and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL).
The additional funding will be open to all eligible adults with less than a ‘Good Level 2 Education’. Target groups include unemployed; underemployed; low-waged, and economically inactive.
The additional funding supports the wider impact measures of the Early Intervention and Prevention programme: roof over head’; money in pocket; long term routes to employment; and engaged in healthier, safer communities.
08/04/24
Department Details
Health and Social Care
Tony.G.Lloyd@birmingham.gov.uk
Decision Maker
Committee
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