 Dear Colleague
We are delighted to invite you to a Skills Investment Strategy briefing on Tuesday 15 December 2009 at the Cambridge Belfry Hotel, Cambourne. The event will commence with registration at 10.30am and conclude at 3.00pm.
Provider Briefing on the Skills Investment Strategy for 2010/2011
On 16 November the Department for Business Innovation and Skills published the Skills Investment Strategy. The Skills Investment Strategy establishes the funding priorities and strategies that the Skills Funding Agency will manage in 2010/11, and will inform the funding discussions that you will have with the Learning and Skills Council in coming weeks.
This is a critical document in this transition year as the Young People’s Learning Agency and the Skills Funding Agency are expected come into being on the 1 April 2010.
I am writing to invite you to a briefing on the Skills Investment Strategy in the East of England region. This will be led by David Hughes, Interim Director of Provider Services, Skills Funding Agency.
This Skills Investment Strategy briefing will address the headline priorities and budgets for Employer Responsive (including Apprenticeships), Adult Learner Responsive and European Social Fund. We will describe the process for
allocations this year, present the recent national Skills Strategy: Skills for Growth, and explain how the new Account Management arrangements will operate.
The briefing will also include input from the shadow Young People’s Learning Agency about the 16-19 learning agenda and planning process for 2010/11. The shadow Young People’s Learning Agency is working with local authorities to hold detailed events on the Statement of Priorities that will be published soon. The Statement of Priorities events will be best suited for providers with a majority of provision catering for 16-18 year olds. Details of these events are being finalised and whilst you are welcome to attend both events you should not feel required to do so.
As this event will set the context for the forthcoming discussions that will determine your allocations and contracts for provision funded by the Skills Funding Agency for 2010/11, we would urge you to attend this briefing in order to be fully informed.
This briefing is designed for all colleges and work-based learning providers and attendance is restricted to one person per organisation.
To confirm your place, please register online at www.alivecom.co.uk/sisbriefing by Friday 4 December latest. Places are limited to one representative per organisation. If you have already reserved your place, then you need take no further action.
For directions to the hotel, please visit http://www.qhotels.co.uk/hotels/the-cambridge-belfry-cambridge/how-to-find-us.aspx
Should you have any queries, please call the events team on 01234 341200 or email laura@alivecom.co.uk
We shall look forward to meeting you on the day.
Caroline Neville
Regional Director
Learning and Skill Council East of England |
