April 2021

Last week, Ofsted published its annual report for the year 2019/20. It should be noted that this report covers the year when the new EIF was introduced and when inspection activity has been affected by the pandemic. Some key messages that may be of interest to members are: Learning Loss Disruption to learners’ education as […]

Rishi Sunak made a statement today, announcing the outcomes of the Government’s Comprehensive Spending Review. As well as ensuring a strong focus on public health and Covid the Government’s focus is upon protecting livelihoods (creating jobs), supporting business and protecting public services. The OBR forecast for this year shows a predicted 11% decrease in the

Liverpool Combined Authority recently launched the Digital Skills for the Workplace project, funded by DfE until 31st March 2021 as part of the Digital Bootcamps initiative. As part of this project, they can provide full funding for digital skills training which is at least Level 3 standard (or equivalent) and up to 12 weeks in

GMLPF represents local providers on this group, which met for the first time w/c 16th November since December 2019. Members will be interested to learn that Paul Cocker, now a Senior HMI, has joined the NW Ofsted team. The meeting gave Ofsted an opportunity to update FES providers on their work programme currently. During the