Training provider to lose funding contracts
City College Nottingham is set to have its funding contracts “terminated,” according to a report in FE Week.
The private training provider had £1.3 million worth of contracts with the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) in 2019-2020.
FE Week says the college is being hit with the sanction due to “serious safeguarding failures” uncovered by an Ofsted inspection last year.
Problems highlighted by the inspection included the ease with which inappropriate material could be accessed on college computers, staff and students reportedly feeling unsafe due to individuals not receiving identity badges and poor practice in practical workshops.
The termination date is not yet known, but the report says the ESFA usually gives providers three months to set their affairs in order.
City College Nottingham offers a range of Level 1-3 education and training courses across its sites in Nottingham, Derby, Leicester and Burton-on-Trent in the East Midlands and Stoke-on-Trent in the West.
