Alongside the Skills for Londoners Strategy, in 2018 the Mayor published his Skills for Londoners Framework. The Framework outlines how the objectives of the Strategy will be delivered in the context of the devolution of the Adult Education Budget (AEB) in London to the Mayor from the academic year 2019-20, transferring responsibility from the Department for Education for the delivery of adult education provision to London’s residents. It sets out the implementation plans for the AEB, as well as the European Social Fund (ESF) and the Skills for Londoners Capital Fund. The Framework is consulted on annually as changes to the AEB are made. The annual consultation reports can be found below. Please also find the Skills for Londoners Strategy evidence base, which supports the Skills for Londoners Strategy and Framework.

In January 2022 the Mayor published his Skills Roadmap for London. The Roadmap sets the direction of travel for adult education in London over the Mayoral term and beyond, including future plans for the approximately £320 million per year Adult Education Budget (AEB). The Roadmap was developed based on extensive consultation with stakeholders, communities and businesses. The GLA engaged over 100 organisations through a written consultation and stakeholder roundtables, including local authorities, learning providers and employers and businesses. The GLA also captured the views of almost 1000 Londoners from key target groups through community conversations hosted by community organisations across London. The GLA also produced an Equality Impact Assessment alongside the final Skills Roadmap to show how equality groups and equalities impacts were considered in the development of the Roadmap (Equality groups are groups who share a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010.)

In 2019 the GLA commissioned education specialists Mime to provide an up-to-date picture of supply and demand of Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) provision for 16-25 year olds in London. The Area Reviews of London’s Further Education provision and the London Adult Community Learning (ACL) Review recommended that more work should be done to determine future SEND demand to ensure that an evidence-based approach can be taken to planning post-16 SEND services. Mime, who specialise in obtaining insight from educational data to improve the life chances of young people, was appointed to conduct a London-wide SEND review. The purpose of the review was to identify the gap in post-16 SEND provision in London and produce a sustainable methodology for projecting demand that could inform future planning cycles. The project team included SEND specialists and was supported by a steering group that included a range of experienced stakeholders from across London. The project consisted of five parts; a demand model that projected the number of 16 to 25 year olds with EHCPs with different levels of learning support, an analysis of current supply, a gap analysis, an EHCP review, and stakeholder interviews. Key findings from the analysis were used to derive recommendations for the SEND sector in London. The review took place between January and July 2018.