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Data Provider: Welsh Government Local authority community learning activities by subject and age group
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Academic yearAcademic years run from 1 August of the initial year to 31 July of the following year.[Filtered]
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[Collapse]ProviderThis dimension gives the unitary authority with whom the learner is studying. The data includes any community learning delivered in collaboration with further education (FE) institutions. The data excludes assisted provision (e.g. a significant component of North Wales provision) not present on the LLWR and provision by FE institutions that is not franchised to local authorities.[Filtered]
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Reference dateThe data is provided on two bases. \'Full academic year\' provides the full year count, and \'Week of 1st December\' provides the numbers in-learning for that week only. The numbers in the week of 1st December act as a snapshot of provision at a given moment in time.[Filtered]
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[Collapse]Sector Subject AreaThis dimension gives the sector subject area (SSA) of the learning activity. These SSAs are derived from the LearnDirect Classification System, and are the QCA defined learning areas with some amendments to be consistent with Estyn statistics. [Filter]
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Metadata

Keywords

Lifelong Learning Wales Record LLWR Community Learning ACL LACL Post 16 P16

Title

Learning activities in local authority community learning in Wales

Last update

27 February 2025 27 February 2025

Next update

February 2026

Publishing organisation

Medr

Source 1

Lifelong Learning Wales Record, Welsh Government

Contact email

Statistics@medr.cymru

Designation

National Statistics

Lowest level of geographical disaggregation

Wales

Geographical coverage

Wales

Languages covered

English only

Data licensing

You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence

General description

This table provides the number of learning activities in local authority community learning in Wales. The data includes all community learning that is delivered by local authorities, and includes any community learning delivered in collaboration with further education institutions.

All figures are rounded to the nearest multiple of 5. Any values greater than 0 and less than 5 have been suppressed and replaced with an asterisk (*)

Data collection and calculation

From 2016/17 onwards all data in the table is calculated using the month 5 freeze of the Lifelong Learning Wales Record (LLWR). This freeze is produced close to the end of the December after the academic year in question finishes. For example, the freeze containing the 2023/24 data was taken close to the end of December 2024.
Prior to 2016/17 data in the table was calculated using the month 7 freeze of the Lifelong Learning Wales Record (LLWR). This freeze was produced close to the end of the February after the academic year in question finishes. For example, the freeze containing the 2015/16 data was taken close to the end of February 2017.

Frequency of publication

Annual

Data reference periods

Data in the table is presented on an academic year basis, which runs from 1st August - 31st July. Data for both full-year provision and those in learning during the week of December 1st are available.

Users, uses and context

The data in this table are used both within and outside Medr to monitor educational trends and as a baseline for further analysis of the underlying data. Some of the key users are:

Ministers and the Members Research Service in the National Assembly for Wales
Officials in the Welsh Government
Other government departments
Further Education Institutions, Work-Based Learning providers and local authorities
Estyn, His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Education and Training in Wales
Students, researchers, and academics
Individual citizens, private companies, and the media

These statistics are used in a variety of ways. Some examples of these are:

General background and research
Inclusion in reports and briefings
Advice to Ministers
Informing and evaluating the education policy-making process in Wales

LLWR data are used to underpin funding and performance reports for learning providers, to calculate NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training) figures and in student finance modelling.

Rounding applied

All figures in the table have been rounded to the closest multiple of 5. All non-zero values less than 5 have been suppressed and are denoted by an asterisk (*).

Weblinks

https://www.medr.cymru/en/data-and-analysis/ - Further education, work-based learning and community learning statistics: an annual publication which this table provides part of a digital alternative with improved interactivity. Previous publications of this release provide data for the academic years 2006/07 - 2011/12, and there are no current plans to update this table to include data previous to 2012/13.

Statistical quality

Adult learning statistics were revised for 2023/24 due to data quality issues. One local authority had been submitting learning to the Lifelong Learning Wales Record (LLWR) which should not have been included. The correct data for the 2023/24 academic year has been manually identified by the local authority. The investigation revealed that these data quality issues also existed in previous years, these have not been corrected.

Local Authority Community Learning statistics for all years before 2023/24 are likely to be overcounted. As a result, figures from 2023/24 that include Local Authority Community Learning data are not comparable to previous years.

Please see the quality and information section of the report Sta/Medr/06/2025: Further education, work-based learning and community learning, August 2023 to July 2024 - Medr for more information.
https://www.medr.cymru/en/News/sta-medr-06-2025-further-education-work-based-learning-and-community-learning-august-2023-to-july-2024/

Statisticians within Medr review the data and query any anomalies with the LLWR data collection team and, where relevant, with learning providers before tables are published. The LLWR data underlying this table are intended to be final, for non-funding purposes.