About

The Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) is a national membership body, proudly representing around 800 organisations.

AELP members support thousands of businesses and millions of learners in England by delivering a wide range of training, vocational learning, and employability programmes. We support learners of all ages, in every community, and at every level of post-16 study.

Training

AELP delivers a range of events, workshops, forums and webinars that bring together providers of work based learning provision across all sectors. We also offer a number of dedicated events focusing specifically on English and maths. This includes a dedicated Foundation and Functional Skills Special Interest Group and a series of workshops and webinars. Click here to learn more and to view our full events schedule.

Careers

AELP are looking to expand our growing database of external consultants who can deliver workshops and webinars in a variety of areas of expertise to support our members. If you would be interested in discussing this in more detail, please email Cheryl Swales cswales@aelp.org.uk and we’ll contact you.

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Improving wellbeing

Improving wellbeing

This 90-minute interactive webinar from AELP will help you understand how to improve the wellbeing of your staff.

Tenders update 2025

Check out Tenders Update March 2026

Take a look at Tenders Update March 2026 for an overview of the latest opportunities open to providers of services to the Essential Skills sector.

Curriculum and Assessment Review

Curriculum and Assessment Review

The newly published Curriculum and Assessment Review recommends the introduction of new level 1 preparation for GCSE qualifications for English language and for maths.

Tenders update 2025

Check out Tenders Update November 2025

Take a look at Tenders Update November 2025 for an overview of the latest opportunities open to providers of services to the Essential Skills sector.

Storybooks

Introducing Storybooks

Google Gemini Storybooks uses AI to generate online storybooks based on your prompts. The books include graphics and sound. It works in multiple languages and is free to use.

Assessment of skills

Assessment of priority skills to 2030

Skills England has published its analysis of future employment needs which shows that occupations in Digital, Adult Social Care, Construction and Engineering will have the greatest additional employment demand between 2025 and 2030.