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Harnessing Technology Grant cuts

The recent announcement of the cutting of £100m of Harnessing Technology Grant (HTG) in the current financial year represents a 50% cut in funding for front-line services in schools and threatens directly the provision of ICT services for schools both regionally and nationally. Not only is there the probable loss of high speed, safe broadband and other key services, but the overall costs for schools to replace these services will be significantly higher, and the replacement services may well be less secure, than those currently in place which benefit from expertise drawn from across the region. A number of exemplar letters have been produced to support schools and parents in writing to their local MP and/or the Secretary of State. Download them from the panel on the right and please use these letters to put pressure on your Local MP and the Secretary of State.

Datamonitor have just published a White Paper entitled 'Regional Broadband Consortia Bring Value to UK Schools' which demonstrates how RBCs as individuals and a group consistently deliver benefits to educational and local authority institutions. The paper can be downloaded here Feel free to share this with anyone you feel would be interested in this independent report.

BREAKING NEWS! We are delighted to announce that YHGfL are now ISP accredited with a fully BECTA compliant filtering platform. Congratulations to the team for all their hard work.