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Learning and Skills Improvement Service

Volume 710: debated on Thursday 14 May 2009

Questions

Asked by

To ask Her Majesty's Government (a) what are the contracts of work currently being undertaken by the Learning and Skills Improvement Service; (b) what is the start date of each contract; (c) what work the contract entails; (d) what is the financial value of each contract; and (e) where the contract has been sub-contracted, which company is responsible for delivering the work.[HL3291]

Full details of the contracts of work currently being undertaken by the Learning and Skills Improvement Service are contained in Annex 1.

Annex 1

LSIS sub-contracted work—worth over £1 million

Contract

Lead Contractor

Consortium Members

Start Date

Current Value

Work Content

Beacons and STARs

Nord Anglia

None

April 2007

£6,500,000

Awards for outstanding providers and practitioners

Improvement Adviser Service

Tribal

None

April 2008

£7,800,000

Provider improvement including intervention

Support for Excellence

Deloitte

Morgan Webb Education

August 2007

£3,500,000

Peer Review and Development

ERIQ—Extending the Reach and Improving the Quality of FLLN

Tribal

None

February 2009

£2,200,000

Supporting literacy and numeracy via family learning.

Move On (to World Class Skills)

Tribal

None

March 2009

£1,200,000

Improved delivery of skills for life within train to gain following Ofsted report

Skills for Life

CfBT

NRDC/LLU+ NIACE LSN

September 2006

£8,000,000

Improving basic literacy and numeracy provision

Diploma Support—Phase 2

SSAT

LSN/The Workshop/Pearson/Hedra

April 2008

£52,000,000

Supporting the introduction of new 14-19 qualifications

Functional Skills for Adults

LSN

None

October 2007

£2,250,000

Supporting the introduction of new functional skills qualifications for adults

Functional Skills

LSN

None

December 2006

£6,200,000

Supporting the introduction of new functional skills qualifications for 14-19 year-olds

General Qualifications

SSAT

The 157 Group/SFCF/AOC/The Workshop

January 2009

£1,950,000

Improved approaches to A levels and in particular the extended project

Post-16 Citizenship

LSN

None

September 2006

£3,700,000

Supporting the introduction of active citizenship provision in post-16 providers

Qualification Reform Support

LSN

None

October 2007

£2,400,000

Supporting the introduction of the new Qualifications and Curriculum Framework

World Class Skills

KPMG

LSN/City & Guilds/AOC/ALP/Sales Insight

May 2008

£13,500,000

Programme to support providers improve their engagement with employers

STEM

Tribal

NCETM/Royal Academy of Engineering

July 2008

£4,000,000

Specialist Support for teaching and learning in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics provision

SLC (Subject Learning Coach Programme)

Nord Anglia

BDP/Desq Illumina

June 2008

£13,700,000

Supporting the improvement of teaching and learning in specified subject areas via resources, networks and the training of subject learning coaches

e-CPD—Online continuing professional development

BDP

ALT/DCTPN/North Hertfordshire and South Devon Colleges of Further Education/Derbyshire Adult and Community Education Service

September 2008

£2,500,000

A programme of training for e-CPD champions within providers

CETTs—Centres for Excellence in Teacher Training

Northumbria University/ACER/South Leicestershire College/University of Huddersfield/London Institute of Education/University of Plymouth/Newcastle College/University of Sunderland/Learning South West/University of Warwick/Oxford Brookes University

(Many linked organisations)

April 2007

£3,000,000

Support for initial [FE] teacher training and post qualifying CPD

Healthy FE

Tribal

None

April 2009

£1,000,000

Promoting healthy life styles within further education

Excellence Gateway

Serco

None

April 2008

£3,000,000

A dissemination platform for FE materials and advice and effective practice

Asked by

To ask Her Majesty's Government how much funding the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills provides to the Learning and Skills Improvement Service and what proportion this constitutes of the total budget of the Learning and Skills Improvement Service.[HL3292]

In 2008-09 DIUS funding was £99 million which represented 68 per cent of the total Learning and Skills Improvement Service income.

In 2009-10 DIUS funding is estimated at £96 million which represents 71 per cent of the total Learning and Skills Improvement Service income.

In 2010-11 funding allocations have not been formally confirmed.