Tailored Learning Open Framework 2025

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    "description": "Nottinghamshire County Council (the Council) receives an annual grant from the Department for Education (DfE) via East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) to fund Community and Family Learning for adults aged 19+ in Nottinghamshire. The Council uses this Grant to ensure that local people have access to a range of flexible learning opportunities that contribute to their personal, social, educational and economic development. The vast majority of provision is delivered directly to the public via the Council\u0027s Contract with Inspire Learning. In addition to the contract to deliver direct services, Inspire Learning are also contracted to coordinate and manage supplementary contractors that deliver specialist provision that they do not deliver themselves.\nNottinghamshire County Council is seeking organisations who:\n\u2022 are able to provide high quality Tailored Learning to adults over the age of 19 in Nottinghamshire. This provision should principally be courses that Inspire Learning is unable to deliver themselves;\n\u2022 if subject to Ofsted inspections, their most recent inspection was graded Good (grade 2) or better;\n\u2022 are not currently subject to a DfE notice to improve linked to their financial performance.\n\u2022 will not be in receipt of Adult Skills Fund funding for the 2025-26 academic year; and\n\u2022 directly deliver services.\nSubcontracting is not allowed.\nProviders are invited to tender for contracts for the following Community Learning provision:\n\u2022 General Adult Learning\n\u2022 Family Learning\n\u2022 Discrete provision for learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities (LLDD)",
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