Peter Aldous welcomes the Education Committee’s report on adult skills and lifelong learning and urges the Government to work collaboratively with local colleges, specifically calling for a long-term funding settlement for colleges and, more urgently, for the Education and Skills Funding Agency to revisit the decision to claw back funding from colleges that missed their 2020-2021 academic year targets by more than 10%.
Peter Aldous welcomes the Bill in general, but calls on the Government to look more closely at some of the detail, specifically the need to retain and reinvigorate enterprise zones, such as the one serving Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth, clarification as to why no places in Suffolk and Waveney have been given priority in the Levelling Up Fund and the UK Community Renewal Fund and the need for a strategic approach to welfare support which should include long-term funding for local welfare assistance.
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