It has been a turbulent start to the year for the Department for Education and Skills. There has been the funding rollercoaster of the Children's Fund, the absorption of the bulk of the children's remit from the health department and the ongoing task of rejigging the children's directorate.
And now this turbulence has reached the Connexions service.
In a letter to Connexions partnership chief executives two weeks ago, Connexions supremo Anne Weinstock said that the department was taking 25m out of the service by shrinking its "VAT pot" (YPN, 25 February-2 March, p2).
Designed to help partnerships cope with changes to their tax status, the pot paid for nearly all the VAT bills incurred by the service. But, needing to divert funding elsewhere, the Government raided the reserve, leaving partnerships liable for 70 per cent of their VAT bills.
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