Business, Innovation and Skills written question – answered at on 21 January 2014.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what due diligence process his Department required (a) the Leadership Development Centre and (b) Vision Lifestyle to undertake prior to their acceptance as sub-contractors for Stockton Riverside College to employ apprentices.
holding answer
The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) requires its contractors to notify it of any subcontractors it intends to use. According to information supplied by Stockton Riverside College to the SFA, Vision Lifestyle is not a subcontractor to the college. The Leadership Development Centre is a subcontractor to the college.
The SFA requires that providers do not appoint subcontractors with a contract value of £100,000 or above per funding year unless they are listed on the agency's register of training organisations. The agency also requires that the college selects its subcontractors fairly and that subcontractors have sufficient capacity, capability, quality and financial standing to deliver the provision. The contractor remains ultimately responsible for all provision that is subcontracted.
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