- About us
- About colleges
-
Corporate services
- Corporate services
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Data Protection/GDPR
-
Employment Services - college workforce
- Employment Services - college workforce
- Employment: How we support members
- Introduction & Employment Helpline
- Absence & Sickness Management
- Contracts and T&Cs
- Disciplinary, Capability & Grievance
- Employment Briefings Library
- Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
- General Employee Relations & HR Issues
- Holiday/annual leave related
- Industrial Relations
- ONS reclassification related guidance
- Pay & Pensions
- Recruitment
- Redundancy, Restructuring & TUPE
- Safeguarding/Prevent
- Workforce Benchmarking, Surveys & Research
- Governance
-
Projects
- Projects
- Get Involved!
- Projects: How we support members
- Resources
- The 5Rs Approach to GCSE Maths Resits
- Apprenticeship Workforce Development (AWD) Programme
- Creating a Greener London – Sustainable Construction Skills
- Erasmus+ EXPECT Project
- Digital Roles Across Non-digital Industries
- T Level and T Level Foundation Year Provider Support Programme
- The Valuing Enrichment Project
- Higher and Extended Project Qualifications
- OfS - Higher Education Social Prescribing Project
- Pears Foundation Youth Social Action Programme: Phase 2
- T Level Professional Development (TLPD) Offer
- T Level Curriculum Macro-Sequencing
- Contact the Projects Team
- DfE Multiply Capability Support Programme
- Creative Arts in FE 2024 – developing student voice through creativity
- Resources/Guidance
- Sustainability & Climate Action Hub
- Partnerships
- Honours Nomination
- Brexit
- Recruitment and consultancy
-
Events and training
- Events and training
- Events
- T Level & T Level Foundation Year Events
- Events and training: How we support members
- Network Meetings
- Annual Conference & Exhibition 2023 Resources
- Previous Events & Webinars
- In-House Training
- Senior Leadership Development Programme
- Introducing AoC's Early Career and Experienced Middle Managers Programme
- Sponsorship & Exhibition Opportunities
- Funding and finance
-
Policy
- Policy
- Meet the Policy Team
- Policy: How we support members
- Policy Areas
- Policy Briefings
- Submissions
- Policy Papers & Reports
- AoC Strategy Groups
-
AoC Reference Groups
- AoC Reference Groups
- Adults (inc. ESOL) Reference Group
- Apprenticeship Reference Group
- Technology Reference Group
- HE Reference Group
- 14-16 Reference Group
- Mental Health Reference Group
- 16-18 Reference Group
- SEND Reference Group
- WorldSkills Reference Group
- HR Reference Group
- Sustainability & Climate Change Reference Group
- EDI Reference Group
- Opportunity England
- Research unit
-
News, campaigns and parliament
- News, campaigns and parliament
- General and mayoral election resources
- Comms advice and resources for colleges
- AoC Newsroom
- AoC Blogs
- Work in Parliament
- AoC Campaigns
- Briefings
- Contact the Communications, Media, Marketing and Research Team
- Communications, media, marketing and research: How we support members
-
Equality, diversity and inclusion
- Equality, diversity and inclusion
- Equality, diversity and inclusion blogs
- AoC’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Charter
- Diversity in Leadership
- Black FE Leadership Group and AoC partnership agreement
- AoC's Equity Exchange
- Equality, diversity and inclusion: how we support members
- Equality, diversity and inclusion case studies
- Home
- News, campaigns and parliament
- AoC Newsroom
- The 8 July budget - a 12 point action plan from AoC
The 8 July budget - a 12 point action plan from AoC
AoC returned a detailed budget submission to HM Treasury on 5 July 2015. The full document (10,000 words) is available here .
AoC submission to the Budget 5 June 2015.pdf
AoC submission to the Budget 5 June 2015.pdf (PDF,745 KB)
We make 12 recommendations to the Treasury including:
* the need to take account of college lead-times when making public spending savings
* the case for a rationalisation fund and a new approach which avoids needlessly sustaining unviable provision
* the case for government to tackle costs created by its own policies (for example pensions, VAT and exam fees)
* the need to protect the £4,000 full-time funding rate and the funding per student for 16 to 18 year olds (something we have also argued for in a joint letter with school and college associations)
* the case for maintaining 16 to 18 education numbers to ensure that everyone stays in education until 18 in the coming years when the 16 to 18 population is falling
* the case for education sector wide action to increase the supply of Maths teachers
* the need to tackle systematic issues like poor careers advice and employer engagement if the government wishes to ensure 3 million apprenticeships. A longer note on the 3 million apprenticeship target is available here https://www.aoc.co.uk/blog/3-million-apprenticeships-2020-%E2%80%93-quite-challenge-not-impossible
* the case for continuing adult skills funding for those who can't benefit from apprenticeships while also extending FE loans to ensure that education and training levels don't decline. Apprenticeships are necessary but 25 million adults will be unable to access them because they do not work full-time
* the risks in hasty devolution of budgets and the sense in testing a outcome agreement model to improve local accountability for national spending
* the case for a wider ranging review of financial support for 19+FE and HE
* the need for a coherent approach to capital funding