Decision details

Adult learning and Skills Service Accountability Statement 2023/24

Decision Maker: Executive

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

To approve the final Annual Accountability Statement for submission to the Department of Education by the 31 July deadline.
The Accountability Agreement, which is split into two parts (the Agreement itself in part 1 and the Annual Accountability Statement in part 2) sets out expectations and what education providers will deliver, in return for DfE funding. The Annual Accountability Statement details outcome targets and is a requirement of the DFE funding (£3.1 million).

Decisions:

Considered – A report of the Corporate Director Children & Young People’s Service seeking approval to submit the final version of the accountability statement, relating to Adult learning grant spend, to the Department for Education by the 31 July 2023 deadline.

 

Councillor Annabel Wilkinson introduced the report and provided an overview of the Authority’s requirement to submit its final Accountability Statement by the deadline and subsequently publish it on the Authority’s website.

 

Having considered the report, it was

 

Resolved – That:

i.       Submission of the final accountability agreement to the DfE be approved

ii.      The final agreement be published on the Authority’s website

 

Report author: Paul Cliff

Publication date: 20/07/2023

Date of decision: 18/07/2023

Decided at meeting: 18/07/2023 - Executive

Effective from: 26/07/2023

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