Motion
- Motion title
- Restore funding to adult education
- Session
- 2025-2026
- Meeting link
- FE Conference
- Meeting date
- 28 May 2026
- Status
- Carried
- Motion
- F16
- Motion text
Conference notes:
1. funding for adult education was reduced by 6% in 2025
2. this contributes to an overall reduction of around 30% since 2004
3. this affects ACE providers and FE colleges
4. the importance of adult funding to individuals and communities
5. UCU's Save Adult Education campaign is a good start but needs to go further.
Conference resolves:
a. to organise rallies and demonstrations to protect
b. to rename redefine the New Deal for FE campaign to include Adult Education and HE in FE
c. to commission a report on the effect of adult funding on the finances of FE colleges
d. to campaign for an improved structure of adult funding to make colleges more able to plan
e. to oppose all attempts by local or national politicians to make adult education less inclusive.
- Proposing body
- Yorkshire and Humberside regional FE committee
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Further education committee (FEC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2026/F/05-28/081/F16