Just reading a little bit from HH talking about the fact that the Diplomas that are being introduced for 14-19 year olds are apparently the responsibility of the DIUS (Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills), not the DCSF. The DCSF has repsonsibility for everything up to the age of 13, but then after that there is a great deal of shared responsibility. It seems to me that all of our current work is still focussed on the DCSF, I think we need to see if there is scope to engage with DIUS. If we want to do anything with 14-19 institutions (e.g., sixth-form colleges, FE colleges) we really have to work through DIUS as they are not under the DCSF at all (I think). Whilst this is of course frustrating and confusing it could also open up more lines of funding and more areas of work to explore.
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