We provide full funding up to and including Level 2 English and maths for adults aged 19 and above, including those who are employed, who do not have a GCSE grade 4, grade C, or higher. This is a legal entitlement as set out in the Apprenticeships, Skills and Children’s Learning Act 2009. Funding for these qualifications is provided through the Adult Education Budget (AEB), paragraphs 171 to 177 of the AEB funding rules for 2018 to 2019 gives further information on eligibility and entitlements, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adult-education-budget-funding-rules-2018-to-2019.

If a learner wants to ‘retake’ their GCSE English and maths qualification because they did not achieve a grade 4 or higher (C or higher), then we will not fund the learner to re-sit the exam only. We will, however, fully fund the learner if they complete the learning programme again before retaking the exam.

Learners wishing to ‘retake’ their English and maths qualification only, will need to approach their provider who can check with the relevant awarding organisation that private candidates are accepted and what fee will be charged.

Providers, in receipt of an AEB allocation, will receive £811 if they deliver English and maths GCSEs to adults aged 19 and above. Further information can be found via the AEB: Funding rates and formula 2018 to 2019, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adult-education-budget-funding-rates-and-formula-2018-to-2019.

The attached table contains the number of providers where adult (19+) learners are participating in GCSE English or maths courses in the Ashfield constituency and Nottinghamshire.

The number of pupils, at the end of key stage 4¹, who were in receipt of free school meals², achieving A*-C in English and maths³ in Ashfield constituency can be found in the attached table.

The number of pupils, at the end of key stage 4¹, who were not in receipt of free school meals², achieving A*-C in English and maths³ in Ashfield constituency can be found in the attached table.

1. Pupils are identified as being at the end of key stage 4 if they were on roll at the school and in year 11 at the time of the January school census for that year. Age is calculated as at 31 August for that year, and the majority of pupils at the end of key stage 4 were age 15 at the start of the academic year. Some pupils may complete this key stage in an earlier or later year group.
2. Free school meal eligibility is taken from the census record for that academic year. Some pupils will have no free school meal eligibility information and have been excluded from this measure.
3. In line with secondary performance measures and early entry policy, discounting has been applied. More information can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/key-stage-4-qualifications-discount-codes-and-point-scores.

The Department will be publishing its revised National curriculum assessments: key stage 2, 2017 Statistical First Release (SFR)¹ in December 2017. This publication will include the requested figures for pupils in (a) Ashfield constituency and (b) Mansfield in the additional tables. The percentage of pupils nationally who reached the expected levels, in 2016/17², were (i) 71% for reading, (ii) 76% for writing³, (iii) 77% for spelling, punctuation and grammar and (iv) 75% for mathematics.

1. The publication will be found at this link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-key-stage-2
2. Found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-curriculum-assessments-key-stage-2-2017-provisional - this is provisional, not final data
3. Writing is based on teacher assessment, not standardised assessment

The Department will be publishing its revised ‘National curriculum assessments: Key Stage 2, 2017 Statistical First Release (SFR)’ in December 2017[1]. This publication will include the percentage of disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged pupils achieving the expected standard in the requested subjects for England[2]. The SFR will include the same information for constituencies[3]. The SFR does not break down the figures for disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged pupils by constituency in the Department, but could do so on request after the data is published.

[1] The publication will be found at this link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-key-stage-2

[2] This data will be located in the ‘national tables’

[3] This data will be located in the ‘additional tables’