As part of last week’s (11 May) Queen’s Speech it was announced that post-16 education and training would be “central” to England’s pandemic recovery while it reiterated the importance of improving opportunities in the most disadvantaged areas.
The Skills and Post-16 Education Bill was published by the government on Tuesday (18 May) alongside details of three funding programmes to boost education for young people in the most deprived areas:
Post-16 Capacity Fund
The Department for Education has announced a new £83m Post-16 Capacity Fund for 2021/22 to “ensure that post-16 providers can accommodate the expected demographic increase in 16 to 19-year-olds”.
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