Why become a member?
- AELP works tirelessly to ensure its members' views are taken into account by the Government and other national stakeholders
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Why all providers should join!
Download a copy of AELP’s fact sheet about why your organisation should be a AELP Member.
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AELP provides a unified national voice for employment, vocational and work based learning providers from the private, public and voluntary sectors and is recognised by, and influential with, all the key national policy makers. We continually lobby for vocational learning, ensuring it has a higher profile not just in the media, but also within Westminster - all MPs receive a regular newsletter on current issues, and the AELP position. AELP representatives meet regularly with ministers, opposition spokespersons and officials at the highest levels, both formally and informally.
AELP representatives are to be found on many government and funding agency groups, including:
Department for Business Innovation & Skills (BIS)
- FE Reputation Strategy Group
- FE Workforce Reform Advisory Group
- Safeguarding Advisory Group
- FE Ministerial Standing Group
- FE Reform and Performance Board
- FE Sponsoring Board
- Literacy and Numeracy Stakeholder Group
Department for Education (DfE)
- Learners with Learning Difficulties or Disabilities Advisory Group
Skills Funding Agency (SFA)
- Strategic Approvals Panel
- Joint SFA/YPLA Advisory Group
Young People's Learning Agency (YPLA)
- Learner Support Consultative Forum
- College and Training Organisation Advisory Forum
Department for Works & Pensions (DWP)
- Provision Forum
- Merlin Standard Advisory Group
National Apprenticeship Service (NAS)
- Stakeholder Group
Skills Funding Agency (SFA)
- Member of the College and Training Organisation Advisory Forum
Others
- Chair of National Improvement Partnership Board
- Director of Single Voice
- Adult Advancement and Careers Service Stakeholder Communications Group
- Professionalisation of Welfare to Work Expert Reference (PoWER) Group
- National Audit Office FE Expert Panel on Bureaucracy
Your membership is vital!
AELP can only maintain its credibility if it is seen to represent the many providers, large and small, who are delivering the skills and employability strategies. We can only continue to influence decisions if the providers that are benefiting from our work support us by joining AELP.
The majority of larger providers have already joined, but we also represent the army of small and medium providers - those that, without the work of AELP, could face the greatest threats if the views of providers are not being fed into policy and decision makers at the earliest opportunity. We are here to protect your interests.
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