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 Health and Adult Social Care
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.