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Further Education Funding and Accountability Reform

The Department for Education is reforming further education funding and accountability mechanisms, including condition allocations for FE colleges, pay discussions with the Association of Colleges, and establishment of Technical Excellence Colleges in priority sectors. The reform addresses labour costs in the skills system and aims to improve FE innovation and workforce development. Current status includes active consultation on 2026-27 funding allocations and government response to recommendations on FE and skills.

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29 Apr 2026 | Written question Department for Education linked

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she has considered the skills needed for the Restoration and Renewal Programme and the funding of FE courses that contribute to the skills base required

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she has considered the skills needed for the Restoration and Renewal Programme and the funding of FE courses that contribute to the skills base required for the Programme.

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29 Apr 2026 | Written question Department for Education linked

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent steps her Department has taken to support school leavers to access (a) further education opportunities and (b) work placements; and what assess

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent steps her Department has taken to support school leavers to access (a) further education opportunities and (b) work placements; and what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of those …

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9 Jul 2025 | Written evidence linked

We asked the Department if it thought there has been less focus on recruitment in further education than there should have been given the need to increase skills across the UK economy. For example, written evidence we received from the Gatsby Charitable Foundation and the Association of Colleges highlighted the £10,000 pay gap between teachers in schools and further education which they felt should be closed as a matter of priority.36 Also, in 2024–25, the majority of the £700 million (88%) b...

We asked the Department if it thought there has been less focus on recruitment in further education than there should have been given the need to increase skills across the UK economy. For example, written evidence we received from the …

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27 Jan 2021 | Written evidence linked

In July 2020, the government published an independent review of college financial oversight by Dame Mary Ney. The review made a number of recommendations with a view to improving the support individual colleges and the sector received, and enhancing oversight and intervention arrangements. Dame Mary proposed a new, more nurturing relationship between government and colleges.50 In written evidence, the Association of Colleges described the existing intervention regime as “very negative”.51 The...

In July 2020, the government published an independent review of college financial oversight by Dame Mary Ney. The review made a number of recommendations with a view to improving the support individual colleges and the sector received, and enhancing oversight …

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