Apr. 26 2024
Source Page: Notice to improve: Newham Sixth Form CollegeFound: Notice to improve: Newham Sixth Form College
Mar. 26 2024
Source Page: Condition Improvement Fund: 2024 to 2025 outcomeFound: Transparency data Condition Improvement Fund: 2024 to 2025 outcome Information for academies, sixth-form
Jun. 05 2009
Source Page: Tables showing school and college (post-16) achievement and attainment, 2008. 9 p.Found: formFeeder school for sixth/form centre/consortiaage rangeInstitution closedinstitution in Key Stage
Apr. 26 2024
Source Page: Notice to improve: Newham Sixth Form CollegeFound: Notice to improve: Newham Sixth Form College
Feb. 17 2012
Source Page: Table showing institutions offering Access to Higher Education programmes recognised by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) in England. 16 p.Found: Table showing institutions offering Access to Higher Education programmes recognised by the Quality Assurance
Feb. 19 2024
Source Page: £20 million support to Level Up Telford (Levelling Up Fund 2)Found: New Sixth Form Centre Telford College delivers both Further and Higher Education courses from its main
Asked by: Catherine McKinnell (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to make an assessment of the appropriateness of allocating maintenance funding directly to smaller responsible bodies.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
The department has allocated over £15 billion since 2015 for keeping schools safe and operational, including £1.8 billion in the 2023/24 financial year. This is informed by consistent data on the condition of the school estate. The department also provide extensive guidance on effective management of school buildings, including through Good Estates Management for Schools.
Local authorities, larger multi-academy trusts (MATs) and larger voluntary-aided (VA) school bodies receive an annual school condition allocation (SCA) to invest in priorities across the schools for which they are responsible. Smaller academy trusts and single academy trusts, smaller VA bodies and sixth-form colleges are instead able to bid into the Condition Improvement Fund (CIF).
To be eligible to receive direct SCA for the 2023/24 financial year, MATs and VA bodies must have met two principal criteria. The MAT or VA body must have had 5 or more open schools at the start of September 2022, and those open schools (or their predecessor schools) must have had at least 3,000 pupils counted in the spring 2022 census, or the 2021 to 2022 individualised learner record.
School level allocations for both SCA and CIF eligible schools are calculated using the same formula, to ensure parity. Whilst the allocations for schools in SCA eligible responsible bodies are totalled to form a direct allocation for the responsible body, the allocations for CIF eligible schools and sixth form colleges are combined to form the CIF fund, into which they can bid. This is to ensure that schools and sixth form colleges in smaller responsible bodies, which are CIF eligible, have the opportunity to access sufficient funding to complete projects to improve condition.
Were CIF eligible responsible bodies given direct allocations, they would, in most cases, attract substantially less funding than SCA eligible responsible bodies, as the allocation formula is based on pupil numbers. As a result, direct allocations might not be sufficient for these responsible bodies to complete the projects they require, which is why they are instead given access to CIF.
The department keeps the methodology for allocating condition funding under review.
Written Evidence Jan. 30 2024
Inquiry: Financial EducationFound: FE0013 - Financial Education East Norfolk Sixth Form Written Evidence
Mentions:
1: Derek Thomas (Con - St Ives) prepared for this debate, I found that there are in fact two local authority areas in this country with no sixth-form - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) sixth-form education is free across the rest of this great United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern - Speech Link
3: Derek Thomas (Con - St Ives) Again, that does not include contingencies or incidental expenses; many students never see their sixth - Speech Link
4: Luke Hall (Con - Thornbury and Yate) There are a number of sixth-form colleges, sixth forms and other options—I think he referenced a couple - Speech Link
Dec. 12 2023
Source Page: ESFA college and local authority accountability agreementsFound: colleges, sixth form colleges and designated institutions) the statutory duty to review how well the