The Education and Skills Funding Agency has announced a one-year increase to the threshold for over-delivery of the national adult education budget.
Colleges and training providers will be paid for any over-delivery up to 110 per cent of their contract value for 2021/22 – up from the usual threshold of 103 per cent.
The ESFA said this is “in recognition of providers’ efforts to focus on delivery following the coronavirus pandemic and accommodating additional eligible learners recently resettled from other countries including Ukraine and Afghanistan”.
Julian Gravatt, deputy chief executive of the Association of Colleges, said this is the seventh year in a row that the core adult education budget has been fixed in cash terms, so it is “helpful that DfE is providing money for those colleges who are exceeding their 2021-22 targets”.
