Community Learning 2013/14

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Dear Haringey Council,

Please can I request the details of you SFA Community Learning Budgets for the past 2 years.

In particular the following separate areas;

1) The Community Learning Funds Strategy and ambition for the council
2) Details of Partnership Arrangements related to the fund, including subcontracting financials and fees for both academic years.

2) For 11/12 -

Details of how the contract from the SFA was spent, on which specific services;
-Personal and Community Development Learning (PCDL)
-Family English, Maths and Language (FEML)
-Wider Family Learning (WFL)
-Neighbourhood Learning in Deprived Communities (NLDC)

3) For 12/13
-Personal and Community Development Learning (PCDL)
-Family English, Maths and Language (FEML)
-Wider Family Learning (WFL)
-Neighbourhood Learning in Deprived Communities (NLDC)

4) Details of the main contact / department responsible for the fund.

Yours faithfully,

James Simmons

Selby Jane, Haringey Borough Council

Dear Mr Simmons

 

Freedom of Information Request: Reference LBH/2056513

 

I acknowledge your request for information received on 29 July 2013.

 

This information request will be dealt with in accordance with the Freedom
of Information Act 2000 and we will send the response by 27 August 2013.

 

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Bennett Robert, Haringey Borough Council

Dear Mr Simmons

Re: Freedom of Information Act Request ref: LBH/2056513

 

Thank you for your request for information received on , in which you
asked for the following information:

 

1) The Community Learning Funds Strategy and ambition for the council

2) Details of Partnership Arrangements related to the fund, including
subcontracting financials and fees for both academic years.

 

2) For 11/12 -

 

Details of how the contract from the SFA was spent, on which specific
services; -Personal and Community Development Learning (PCDL) -Family
English, Maths and Language (FEML) -Wider Family Learning (WFL)
-Neighbourhood Learning in Deprived Communities (NLDC)

 

3) For 12/13

-Personal and Community Development Learning (PCDL) -Family English, Maths
and Language (FEML) -Wider Family Learning (WFL) -Neighbourhood Learning
in Deprived Communities (NLDC)

 

4) Details of the main contact / department responsible for the fund.

           

           

 

My response is as follows:

 

1)     The Community Learning Funds Strategy and ambition for the council:

 

The ambition to date is best encapsulated in the services Self Assessment
Report (SAR):

 

The mission of the Service is: To be a positive force in our community,
enabling people to achieve their learning and employment goals. This
mission is underpinned by:

 

§  Partnership working with schools and libraries, children’s centres,
community organisations and employers to plan appropriate courses
delivered at locations easily accessible to learners

§  A responsive curriculum designed to prioritise local demand

§  Alignment with national and local policy priorities

§  Effective use of resources to ensure best value is achieved

§  A competitive fees policy to extend the quantity and quality of
learning provision

 

Provision directly contributes towards council targets from its Corporate
Plan and these include:

[1]*       Outstanding for all: Enabling all Haringey children to thrive

§  Through Family Learning Provision

§  Thought EFA funded provision for NEETS (not Community Learning)

[2]*       Safety and wellbeing for all: A place where everyone feels safe
and has a good quality of life

§  Through partnership sub-contract with Mind in Haringey and Different
Strokes

§  Through the delivery of a wellbeing programme developed in partnership
with Public Health through Spurs and Weightwatchers aimed at obese males
in Tottenham, and by training the volunteer Health Champions

§  Through directly delivered wellbeing courses

[3]*       Opportunities for all: A successful place for everyone

§  Through the delivery of courses which enhance employability such as the
fashion and design course delivered at the JAN Centre

§  By seeking to embed information on employability within existing
directly delivered programmes (such as Art)

[4]*       A better council: Delivering responsive, high quality services
and encouraging residents who are able to help themselves to do so

§  By seeking to deliver high quality courses

§  By supporting and enhancing volunteering opportunities

 

The service directly reports its achievements using the council’s Covalent
systems for Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

 

Provision is focussed on engaging learners from disadvantaged backgrounds
and for the last two years 69% of HALS Haringey learners have come from
those Super Output Areas (a finer grained measure than council wards) that
feature in the 20% most deprived in England.

 

The current Community Learning model offers the following curricula:

·         Wellbeing provision including Tai Chi, Yoga and so on

·         Modern Foreign languages (particularly French and Spanish)

·         Arts courses

·         Family Learning (with a mix of engagement and accredited basic
skills and ICT courses)

·         Unaccredited engagement and ICT access courses

 

The service seeks to use funded provision as an effective progression
route for learners wherever possible. So engagement courses in Family
Learning and ICT can lead onto further and accredited opportunities funded
through First Steps provision. The service also takes every opportunity to
enhance and develop the scope and range of the curriculum. For instance
this year we were able to deliver a Community Learning Impact Funded
project where Family Learning groups could use Tablet Technology to
develop story-telling with their children. This successful programme has
now become embedded into Family Learning provision and will be expanded.
HALs also has access to Prospects Careers service funding and is able to
offer learners high quality information, advice and guidance.

 

However the current model for delivery, with is mix of directly delivered
provision and a growing element of sub-contracted provision through Third
Sector and community based partners is about to be reviewed. The review is
at its very early stages and it is unlikely that the full results will be
known/approved for some time, possibly the start of the 14-15 academic
year. The service is also putting in place arrangements for local
communities to have a greater say in the curriculum offer (in line with
the requirements of ‘New Challenges, New Chances’ BIS 2011). Because the
service is subject to review these arrangements are interim but focus on
attendance at local meetings and participation on those panels that
already exist for health and employability.

 

 

2)     Partnership Arrangements:

 

Formal partnerships (those governed by sub-contract/SLA): currently held
with Third Sector, council partners and Third Sector and community groups.
These are largely funded through NLDC (apart from the charges for delivery
within Libraries), and the level and scope of these has grown over the
last 4 years and it is anticipated that this will continue to be the case.

11-12:                                                                                     
12/13

Organisation:                           
Value                                       
Organisation                             Value

Different Strokes                       
£13,990                                     Broadwater Childrens
Centre      £8,941

HAVCO                                    
£2,000                                      Different
Strokes                        £13,990

Greig City Academy                  
£4,500                                      Greig City
Academy                   £4,500

Haringey MIND                         
£10,000                                     Haringey MIND             
            £10,000

JAN Trust                                 
£20,760                                     JAN
Trust                                  £22,260

Wolves Lane                            
£7,285                                      Wolves
Lane                             £7,296

Broadwater Childrens Centre     
£2,500                                      Public Health
                            £14,000

Libraries and Culture                 
£104,890                                   (above includes Spurs and
Weightwatchers)

(venue costs for delivery at
Libraries)                                          Libraries and
Culture                  £85,790

 

Sub-contracted partners are able to access CPD and other staff training
through HALS.

 

Informal Partnership (support not governed through formal arrangements)

Organisation                                                     Activity
by HALS

U3A                                                                  HALS
offers free hosting for sewing group

Homes for Haringey                                           Provision of
IT training for volunteer mentors in supported accommodation

Childrens Centres                                              All
WFL/FEML provision delivered through Haringey Childrens Centres

Northumberland Park Resource Centre                Community delivery
location for directly delivered courses

Winkfield Centre                                                Delivery
of IT courses (digital Photography) for those with a disability

HAVCO                                                             ad hoc
support for funding applications and Third Sector training

 

 

Fees:    Included below. Other income sources utilised to enhance
provision include vending, provision of training and room hire.

 

 

Income/Expenditure 11-12:

Grant Income for Community Learning:    £1,138,394

 

Income                          Expenditure                   Balance
                                                           Fee income

(i.e. supported by fee and other income)            

PCDL                                                   
£713,938                       £724,955.87                 
£11,017.87                                                       
£49,003.08

NLDC                                                   
£183995                        £185,455                       £1460.36

WFL                                                     
£34,140                         £46,294.45                    £12,154.45

FEML (FLLN)                                         
£206,321                       £234,278                       £27,957

 

Income/Expenditure 12-13:

Grant Income for Community Learning:    £1,138,394

 

Income                          Expenditure                   Balance
                                                           Fee income

(i.e. supported by fee and other income)            

PCDL                                                   
£713,938                       £771,536                      
£57,598                                                            
£57,198.60

NLDC                                                   
£183995                        £181,049                       £-2,946
(some expenditure is still contained in PCDL – see note below)

WFL                                                     
£34,140                         £48,093                         £13,953

FEML                                                   
£206,321                       £215,218                       £8,897

Please note: The Academic Year 2012-13 has only just finished and some
costs and adjustments are still to be made (for instance where
suppliers/providers are yet to invoice the service, or where some
expenditure has to be balanced across the community Learning funding
Streams). Expenditure figures for this year should therefore be viewed as
close approximations. The final figures are usually available in early
September after Period 1 of the next academic year has closed. These
figures are prepared for FMCE reporting to the Skills Funding Agency.

 

4.         Main contact:   Robert Bennett

                                    Head of Service

                                    Haringey Adult Learning Service

                                    Wood Green Library

                                    High Road

                                    Wood Green

                                    London

                                    N22 6XD

                                    (e-mail as this response)

 

 

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Yours sincerely,

 

Robert Bennett

Head of Service

 

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