Leeds City Council – Adult & Community Learning Service
The ACLS is seeking proposals for courses of learning that will enable it to meet the commitments it has set out in the Council’s post-16 education 3 Year Development Plan 2005/08. These will also need to contribute towards meeting the funding requirements of the LSC. This curriculum will be informed from a number of sources, including:
- 21st Century Skills - Skills Strategy White Paper
- Skills: Getting on in business, getting on in work - 2nd Skills Strategy Paper
- Every Child Matters: change for children
- Mental Health and Social Inclusion - Report by the Social Exclusion Unit (June 2004)
- the Leeds Learning Partnership Plan
- the Learning and Skills Council Annual Plan 2005/06
- the ACLS Self Assessment Report
- LSC National Curriculum priorities
Providers are reminded:
- evening ‘leisure’ based provision which is not targeted will not be supported by Council funds;
- all work in day centres needs to be checked with the ACLS before it is agreed (in order to avoid duplication);
- keep fit and yoga type of provision will only be supported in community priority areas where there is no local access to a leisure centre;
- evening provision in curriculum areas which can readily be accredited will not be supported.
Should you wish to submit a PQQ (deadline 31 March 2007), you will need to register http://scms.alito.co.uk/ and download the document from scheme LCC3651. For further information and help regarding the SCMS scheme, you can contact IT Support on scms.support@leeds.gov.uk and further instructions will be provided. If you have logged onto the site and experience any further technical difficulties in accessing the documents please contact the SCMS support team on 0113 24 78487.
If you would like to discuss the procurement support available through Social Enterprise Link, please contact David Morrissey, Social Enterprise Adviser (Contracting) on 07913 203086 or email david.morrissey@sesc.info
