Skills Funding Agency (SFA) - reporting to BIS .
The Skills Funding Agency from April 2010, will be the single funding provider for adult skills in England outside of higher education.
Their main function will be to direct funding quickly and efficiently to further education colleges and other skills providers. It will take an activist approach to deliver the skills that employers and individuals need now and in the future, supporting skills development in areas of strategic importance to the economy.
The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) is one of two successor organisations that will emerge from the closure of the Learning and Skills Council (England's largest Non-departmental public body or quango). This change to the English skills system was announced by Gordon Brown shortly after taking office in 2007.
