Decision

This report seeks Director approval for North
Lincolnshire Council's Adult Education and Community Learning
Accountability Statement 2025-26, attached at Appendix 1.

Reasons for the decision

The Accountability Statement for AECL will
agree the overall expectations of providers in return for the
Department for Education's (DfE) funding. The Statement requires
Governance approval and sign off.
The intent of the ‘Accountability Statement’ is to set
out the overall expectations of providers in return for the
Department for Education's (DfE) funding. The statement requires
adult education providers to focus in on what and how they intend
to deliver programmes to support local, regional, and national
need.
Local authorities delivering adult education provision in excess of
£1m are required to create and publish an Accountability
Statement for the academic year 2025 to 2026. North Lincolnshire
Council’s Adult Education and Community Learning provision
receives approx. £1,056,451 Adult Education Budget per
academic year and therefore is required to produce and submit a
corporately approved Agreement to the DfE.

The DfE will review all Accountability Statements in Autumn 2025
and provide feedback to enable further development prior to
submission of the following year’s agreement.

Alternative options considered

Not to approve the Adult Education and
Community Learning Accountability Statement 2025-26.