Education and Learning Wales

ELWa was an

Assembly Government

's Department for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills.

Formation and activities

ELWa - Education and Learning Wales was the brand used by the

Further Education Funding Council for Wales. The organisation's remit was to plan and fund post-16 learning (excluding higher education) in Wales, including further education, publicly funded work-based training, adult community learning and school sixth forms

.

NCETW/ELWa's main statutory responsibilities were to:

Secure the provision of facilities for post-16 education and training in Wales (with the exception of higher education (covered by the other ELWa partner, Higher Education Funding Council for Wales);
Encourage young people and adults to participate in learning; and
Encourage employers to participate in, and contribute to the costs of, post-16 education and training.

The Welsh Assembly Government treated ELWa as a single entity although it was not constituted as one.

Re-organisation

Initially the ELWa brand was used by both the NCETW and the

Chief Executive and Director of Finance. Around the same time it also became apparent that there was no legal basis for the two Councils to jointly employ staff.^[1]

Subsequently the brand name ELWa was retained solely by NCETW.