Labour's cut to adult skills budget 'shockingly cruel', says UCU

Responding to the Department for Education's decision to slash adult skills budgets by 6%, University and College Union (UCU) general secretary Jo Grady said:

'This shockingly cruel cut to adult education funding will hit learners hard and makes it less likely they will gain the skills needed to get good jobs or move on to further education.

'It is especially perverse to be cutting adult education budgets while simultaneously slashing disability benefits on the basis it will get people into work.

'Labour urgently needs to change course and provide the sector the funding needed to boost adult educator pay and give people the educational opportunities that will get them into work and helping to grow the economy.'