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Get ready for our Autumn Conference 2024!🍂 Our Autumn Conference will be returning to Manchester on 7 November👀🎉 Kindly sponsored by City & Guilds, the conference looks to support you in tackling the immediate issues that affect your capacity to deliver excellent results for employers and learners! More information is coming soon, so register your interest now and don't miss out on any updates!📢👇 https://buff.ly/3zNzeWb

Following on from the King’s Speech last week and the announcement of the Skills England Bill, this week started with the launch of Skills England on Monday. Skills England itself should be fully established by the summer of 2025, in the interim the spadework and early hard yards start now with the creation of a Shadow Skills England body with Richard Pennycook CBE being announced as interim chair. Yesterday I was delighted to meet the new team tasked with leading Shadow Skills England. It was a positive initial meeting and very welcome that AELP was on the short list of key stakeholders to meet with so soon after it launched. The public narrative has been that training providers will be a key part of Skills England and as you can imagine that is something we have laser focus on ensuring that actually happens. ITPs have been the engine room driving the success and growth of work-based learning and will be key in making work pay and delivering the economic growth that the economy urgently needs. #SkillsEngland #Apprenticeships #GrowthAndSkills #SkillsMeansGrowth #AskAshworth AELP #Devolution #LocalGrowthPlans #OpportunityMission

Have you checked out our member-exclusive offers on SectorSAVE?👀 SectorSAVE is a portal for our members and stakeholders to share exclusive offers, discounts and promotions🌟 Not our member yet?🤔 If you're not a member, you can still share your offers and promote your business to hundreds of AELP members!  Go check out the website to see the full list of offers!👇 https://buff.ly/3Q7lbjO

Our survey on the impact of the FE Workforce Levelling Up payments is still open⏲️ We would like to see this extended to ITPs, but we need your input. Please help us gather some data by completing the short survey below to help us understand and communicate how this has impacted you, particularly around recruitment and retention of staff. It should take a maximum of 10 minutes. The survey will close at 5pm on Friday 26 July 2024👇

We welcome the decision to pause and then review plans to defund qualifications at Level 3 and below, collectively called for by AELP and the other main sector representatives bodies. There is a degree of urgency over this – concluding this review by the end of the year is ambitious but necessary so that learners and providers understand where they stand. The proposals to remove the majority of Applied General and BTEC qualifications to ‘clear the decks’ for T Levels was completely arbitrary, would reduce learner choice, leave large gaps in provision and significantly impact the most disadvantaged learners.

AELP mini commission #1 – Functional Skills AELP’s first mini commission survey, focusing on Functional Skills, has only been open for one week and we’ve had an amazing response already – thank you to everyone who has responded so far! If you missed the briefing sessions we ran recently, you can listen to the recording of Simon Ashworth, AELP Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Policy, explaining what the mini commission is and why this is a crucial time for all providers to get involved. The audio file and slides are saved on our dedicated mini commission webpage, along with the live survey (and a PDF copy for you to share with your teams): https://buff.ly/4bzboLc If you haven’t completed the survey yet, it is open until COB on Friday 09 August so don’t delay, complete it today!

📢 Come and join us on this #AELPWebinar where we will be using the latest EIF inspection findings to inform good quality of provision. This webinar will review the first six months of EIF inspection findings and help providers in 2024/25 to:  👉 Improve their own quality of provision and development journey; 👉 Focus on the key development priorities at governance and senior leadership level; 👉 Inform effective quality improvement and education/curriculum planning. Book your spot here 👇 https://lnkd.in/gnVNVzjn

If you want to learn about apprenticeships, digital functional skills, tendering, EIF, and Learning Support then you don't want to miss these webinars!💻🌟 We have a fantastic line-up of facilitators including Bally Bhogal, Christine Edwards QTLS, Steve O'Hare, Maureen Deary, Ian Smith, Rupert Crossland, Vicky Harold, and many more! Book now or see the full list of webinars!👇 https://lnkd.in/enu5ChFt #AELPWebinar

Our Chair Nicki Hay MBE is part of the judging panel for the Mayor of London Adult Learning Awards 2024. The application deadline for entry into the award is this Friday 26 July⏲️ If you need to find out more or submit your nomination, visit the website here: https://buff.ly/3NRr16P

Apprenticeship Workforce Development (AWD) Programme – Additional Resources available! Did you know the AWD Programme doesn’t just offer live online CPD! We have a whole range of resources that have been produced for apprenticeship providers to access and use within your own organisations. These include: - Resources from Year 1 Collaborative Projects – a whole range of templates, case studies, best practice guides, videos etc. - A Working with Employers Checklist – a downloadable checklist and guide for apprenticeship providers on working effectively with employers - A range of on-line self-study modules, allowing you to dip in and out to gain support as needed (available via the ETF LMS) - A series of AWD partner blogs, each tacking a different aspect of the apprenticeship journey Visit the ETF website for more information: https://buff.ly/3WcPeIz Funded by the Department for Education, the AWD programme is being delivered by Education and Training Foundation, in partnership with Association of Colleges, AELP, Strategic Development Network (SDN) and University Vocational Awards Council (UVAC) and supported by SQW as an independent evaluator.