Claire Green

🗞️This week's FE Week front page:

EHCP curbs trigger new duties for colleges
and
Level 2 admin apprenticeship still out of office

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#TomorrowsPapersToday

#ASCLmembers: it's a packed edition of Post-16 News by Claire Green this month, including the latest on the Schools White Paper, and our response to the Alan Milburn #NEETReview,.

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Just two weeks until #ASCL2026 in Liverpool. Our theme this year is 'Forward Together', reflecting our commitment to champion collaboration and collective action.

Join us as we share ideas and reignite our collective sense of purpose.

Full details at www.ascl.org.uk/annualconference

Join now for our @ascl-uk.bsky.social Business Leader Online Forum on:

11 March at 9.00 am for ASCL Cymru
18 March at 9.00 am 4.00 pm England - DfE updates

📢 BREAKING NEWS

The @ascl-uk.bsky.social & Education Mutual Business Leader Roadshows are back for 2026 and bookings are now live.

📍 Wednesday 24 June, Birmingham

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📍 Wednesday 1 July, Cardiff

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Prices held at the same price as 2025

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👀 Happy to have a piece featured in this week’s @feweek.bsky.social summarising our response @ascl-uk.bsky.social to the NEET crisis:

feweek.co.uk/we-need-a-14...

It's #HeartUnions Week next week and because we ❤️ unions, we've a very special time-limited offer for new members.

We're proud to support and represent more than 25,000 leaders of primary, secondary, and post-16 education from across the UK.

Available 9 and 10 February here: www.ascl.org.uk/join

Excited to be leading a post‑16 workshop at @ascl-uk.bsky.social Annual Conference with colleagues from Kent Pathways For All. We’ll explore govt plans for a guaranteed post‑16 place for every learner, what it means for schools & practical steps to prepare.
✨14:45 Workshop 2✨ tinyurl.com/4hamx2dk

🎬 A privilege to be at the launch of 'Molly vs The Machines' for @ascl-uk.bsky.social - a powerful film about Molly Russell's tragic story and the urgent need for increased online safety.
Key message: young people aren’t the problem; algorithms are.
More info + trailer: mollyrosefoundation.org

A great morning at the House of Commons APPG for Universities. Spoke on behalf of @ascl-uk.bsky.social about boosting access to higher‑level learning. Excellent insights from fellow speakers & a wide‑ranging discussion on pathways, apprenticeships, L4/5, widening participation & systemic barriers.

🗞️ Our latest Post‑16 News is out now, packed with December & January updates. Inside: Level 3 reforms, GCSE resits, Ofsted FE FAQs, NEETs Review, VAWG & RSE resources, IFS funding & much more.
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@tiffharris.bsky.social gets the #ASCLLiteracy and Oracy Conference underway.

@marcrowland73.bsky.social shares different ways to support disadvantaged and vulnerable learners with #literacy and #oracy and its importance in helping to unlock success and improve outcomes for all pupils.

We urge all stakeholders in post-16 education to respond to the consultation on these significant changes to the level 2 and 3 landscape at post-16:

consult.education.gov.uk/technical-ed...

🕛Reminder: the Post‑16 Level 3 & Below Pathways consultation closes at 12am, Mon 12 Jan.

@ascl-uk.bsky.social has responded: lnkd.in/eXbfnKnv

We support V levels in principle but warn against a rushed rollout, limited flexibility & premature removal of AGQs.
#Vlevels #HaveYourSay

📊 Nov 2025 GCSE resits:
✅ English up (37.5% 4+, now above pre‑pandemic)
❌ Maths stuck (23.2%, below 2019)
📈 More resitting
Progress is possible – but the current model, esp for maths, isn’t working for #TheForgottenThird. With reform on the table, we must act now.

Full JCQ data: shorturl.at/dRz9K

Pleased to represent @ascl-uk.bsky.social members at today’s Westminster Education Forum conference on Level 3 reform. Highlighted implementation challenges and the need to prioritise accessibility & transition.
⏳Remember: consultation closes Mon 12th Jan - shorturl.at/8vUQF

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#ASCLmembers: look out for January's edition of #Primary Focus by @tiffharris.bsky.social. This issue includes information on chicken pox vaccinations, early years funding rates, and school performance data.

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@julia-harnden.bsky.social is such a font of edu-financial wisdom - it is a real privilege to work with her.

This article provides a really balanced summary 👏🏻

Join us in Manchester next month when we'll be inviting leaders to examine how strong #pastoral leadership underpins a thriving, connected and successful school community.

Full details at www.ascl.org.uk/pastoral

Many thanks to event sponsor humanutopia

#ASCLPastoral #SEND

Lorna Newbrook appeared on BBC Breakfast this morning to promote her #pintformike blood donation campaign.
If you’re a post-16 leader, use Lorna’s 🆓 resources as part of your Y12/13 programme and help your students to save lives in memory of Mike♥️
pintformike.org

🎯 First term at ASCL done! Grateful to work with inspiring colleagues & excited for what’s ahead in post-16 education.

🎄 Wishing everyone a well-deserved Christmas break – thank you for all you do to support young people! 🫶🏻

#FestiveThanks #ChristmasWishes

“It is great news that more young people will get to benefit from studying abroad...through Erasmus+. Our hope is that this will help to incentivise language learning in schools...and put young people in the UK on an even footing with their European peers."

Full comment: https://ow.ly/BlqG50XKOju

🆕 FE Outcomes 2022/23 for 544,050 learners aged 16–18:
✅ 85%➡️sustained positive destinations (-1ppt)
💼 48%➡️employment (-3ppt)
🎓 66%➡️learning (+1ppt) (51➡️FE;15➡️HE)
⚖️ 2% benefits
V positive overall, but regional gaps remain
tinyurl.ee/kDNQe

👏🏻THANK YOU FE staff👏🏻

🌟More wonderful wisdom from @mmulholland.bsky.social 🌟

2026 to 2027 academic year: 16 to 19 funding: maths and English condition of funding

📢 Maths & English funding rules 2026–27
✅100 hrs per subject
✅Face-to-face, whole-class
✅+35 maths hrs encouraged
✅2.5% tolerance stays
👀DfE will consult on English & maths resit policy changes from the White Paper in early 2026.
Full update: tinyurl.tools/bb1427eb

Alan Milburn calls for a 'movement' to address lost generation of young people not earning or learning as investigation opens Former Heath Secretary Alan Milburn has today launched his groundbreaking investigation into the causes of record unemployment and inactivity among 16 to 24 year olds with a call for young people and ...

1 in 8 young people (16–24) in the UK are NEET - enough to fill Wembley Stadium x10. Alan Milburn has launched an inquiry & is calling for a “coalition of the concerned” – educators, employers, communities – to share evidence & ideas.
💻 Submit here by 30 Jan: shorturl.at/6Ofgy
#NEET #Post16

Find Lorna’s free resources to use with Y13 here: www.pintformike.org

Lorna is determined to get this out to post-16 providers & has created a 🆓PowerPoint with her powerful 3min video & letter for parents for schools & colleges to use with their Y13.

This also links to calls in the post-16 white paper for enrichment to include civic engagement.

#whatsstoppingyou?

Bids open for 19 more technical excellence colleges Wave 2 sees expansion to sixth form colleges and ‘rare’ opportunity to hold multiple TEC statuses

✍️ Sixth form colleges and designated institutions will be able to apply to become one of 19 new ‘technical excellence colleges’ next year, under plans for wave two of the TEC programme

feweek.co.uk/bids-open-fo...