Vocational Education: Gloucestershire

Mr. Drew
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what plans he has to replace the access course in Gloucestershire in order to provide trainees with sufficient skills to progress from education to employment.

Bill Rammell
The LSC will be continuing to fund engagement provision throughout Gloucestershire in 2007/08 aimed at the same vulnerable learners that have been provided for through the access course. The local partnership team will shortly begin contracting discussions to take the work forward.