Issue details

Adult Learning & Skills Service - Provision of specialist IT services

This report seeks approval for expenditure related to the provision of specialist Management Information Services (MIS) for the Council’s adult learning service (Adult Learning & Skills Service; ALSS). The Tribal Group Ltd is a specialist education information software and services business supplier and has been satisfactorily delivering the MIS since 2007.

The MIS enables ALSS to track individual learners’ progress, accreditation and qualifications as well as submit funding claims to the Skills Funding Agency (SFA), a division of the Department for Business Innovation & Skills. The SFA grant to the Council’s adult learning & skills service annually exceeds £2.8m. Accurate monitoring and accountancy is a compulsory requirement for performance management, continued funding and adherence to Ofsted standards.

The Tribal Ltd MIS contract is currently valued at £75,924 pa.

Decision type: Key

Reason Key: Affects 2 or more wards;

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Wards affected: (All Wards);

Notice of proposed decision first published: 28/04/2014

Report access: Open report with exempt appendix;

Decision due: 6 Oct 2014 by Cabinet

Lead member: Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Health

Department: The Economy department

Contact: Kim Smith, Chief Executive Email: kim.smith@lbhf.gov.uk Tel: 020 8753 6320.

Reason No Public Access: PART OPEN PART PRIVATE Part of this report is exempt from disclosure on the grounds that it contains information relating to the financial or business affairs of a particular person (including the authority holding that information) under paragraph 3 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972, and in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

Documents

  • Adult Learning &Skills Service - Provision of specialist IT services  

Background papers

  • EQIA