The Learning and Skills Council, responsible for distributing the funding for further education, has managed to overspend by a large amount the allocation for Train to Gain and 25+ apprenticeships. It is aiming to put a positive spin on this, by saying that it is the huge success and growth in demand for courses that has led to the need to cap places in the next financial year.
However, training providers and colleges who have responded valiantly to the call to provide much more training capacity to meet aspirations for a better-qualified early years workforce now feel that their efforts have seriously backfired with funding drying up.
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