His members - who deliver the vast majority of apprenticeships and Entry 2 Employment (E2E) programmes nationwide - are facing a period of turbulence as responsibility for 16 to 19 education and training transfers from the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) to local authorities from April 2010.
Where providers used to deal with the LSC, they will soon have to work with not one, but three new quangos: the Young People's Learning Agency (YPLA), the National Apprenticeship Service and the Skills Funding Agency, plus up to 43 sub-regional planning groups and numerous local authorities.
"My concern is that providers will not have the capacity to go out and engage with all of those agencies," Eeles explains. "I'm hoping that this is just a storm in a teacup and the real world won't be affected, but I'm not yet convinced."
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