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Reference:
2015/3542
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Question by:
Andrew Dismore
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Meeting date:
21 October 2015
The Adult Skills Budget, which had already been cut by 32% over the last 5 years, has been further cut by 27.8% this year. What will be the impact on adult (19+) courses for ESOL, for those students enrolling on these courses are not obliged to do so by job centres, but are either unemployed or in low-paid/part-time employment, including refugees and asylum-seekers, as well as those who have come from within the EU to work?