5 May 2010
Funding arrangements for ACE Networks are no longer in place. Existing ACE Networks will not receive grant funding in its current form for 2010 and beyond.
However, we recognise the value of collaborative activities between ACE practitioners and that this will be increasingly important in the new funding environment.
It will be important that there is some kind of system in place (potentially, but not restricted to, existing ACE networks) to support ACE practitioners to share information, knowledge and expertise, and to take account of natural groups which might be geographical, learner-based, needs or interest-based.
We recently funded ACE Aotearoa to run workshops looking at how best to deliver a new system. Results from these workshops have been sent to ACE Networks.
A procurement process is now underway so we can deliver the system and this process is likely to take a couple of months.