The Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) has called for the whole adult education budget (AEB) to be put out to tender due to “persistent annual underspends and too much poor-value subcontracting”. Analysis by the AELP shows a budget underspend of £63 million in 2016-17 and an estimated underspend of £76 million in 2017-18. More on this story is here.
