{"id":80097,"date":"2017-03-28T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=64d176f1ce02a9b08580051c434ae8bf"},"modified":"2017-03-28T10:24:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T10:24:00","slug":"news-story-new-agency-to-provide-joined-up-education-and-skills-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=80097","title":{"rendered":"News story: New agency to provide joined-up education and skills funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Education Funding Agency and Skills Funding Agency are to merge to become one body, the Secretary State for Education <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/business\/publications\/written-questions-answers-statements\/written-statement\/Commons\/2017-03-28\/HCWS559\/\">announced today<\/a> (Tuesday 28 March).<\/p>\n<p>The new, single funding agency &#8211; to be called the Education and Skills Funding Agency &#8211; will sit within the Department for Education and begin to operate from April 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The new body will continue to carry out the roles of the Education Funding Agency and Skills Funding Agency and will therefore be responsible for effectively and efficiently overseeing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the funding of education for pupils aged 5 to 16<\/li>\n<li>education and training for those aged 16 to 19<\/li>\n<li>apprenticeships and adult education<\/li>\n<li>managing school building programmes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Its responsibilities cover these functions in England.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State for Education Justine Greening said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Creating the Education and Skills Funding Agency will mean we are able to provide a more joined-up approach to funding and regulation of schools, colleges and other providers, with improved accountability and better service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">We will be working closely with our staff, unions, stakeholders and the education sector to finalise and deliver our plans for the new agency.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Current chief executive of both agencies, Peter Lauener, has announced that he intends to retire following the merger and plans to recruit a successor are under way.  Mr Lauener will carry on as chief executive of the Education and Skills Funding Agency until a permanent replacement has been recruited and is in place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new body will carry out the roles of the Education Funding Agency and Skills Funding Agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}