Government regions

The Local Authorities within each of the nine government regions – and the providers for them – are as follows:

1. North East
   Darlington, Durham, Gateshead, Hartlepool, Middlesborough, Newcastle, Northumberland, North Tyneside, Redcar and Cleveland, South Tyneside, Stockton, Sunderland
   Provider: Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU)
   
   
2. Yorkshire and the Humber
   Barnsley, Bradford, Calderdale, City of York, Doncaster, East Riding of Yorkshire, Kingston-upon-Hull, Kirklees, Leeds, North East Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, North Yorkshire, Rotherham, Sheffield, Wakefield
   Provider: Serco Learning Solutions
   
   
3. North West
   Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Bolton, Bury, Cheshire, Cumbria, Halton, Knowsley, Lancashire, Liverpool, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Sefton, St Helens, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Warrington, Wigan, Wirral
   Provider: Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU)
   
   
4. West Midlands
   Birmingham, Stoke-on-Trent, Herefordshire, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Shropshire, Solihull, Staffordshire, Telford and Wrekin, Walsall, Warwickshire, Wolverhampton, Worcestershire
   Provider: Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU)
   
   
5. East Midlands
   Derby City, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire/CfBT, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, City of Leicester, City of Nottingham, Rutland
   Provider: Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU)
   
   
6. East of England
   Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Luton, Norfolk, Peterborough, Southend, Suffolk, Thurrock
   Provider: Anglia Ruskin University
   
   
7. South West
   Bath and North East Somerset, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, North Somerset, Plymouth, Poole, Isles of Scilly, Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, Torbay, Wiltshire
   Provider: Serco Learning Solutions
   
   
8. South East
   Bracknell Forest, Brighton and Hove, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Medway, Milton Keynes, Oxfordshire, Portsmouth, Reading, Slough, Southampton, Surrey, West Berkshire, West Sussex, Windsor and Maidenhead, Wokingham
   Provider: Serco Learning Solutions
   
   
9. London
   Barking and Dagenham, Barnet, Bexley, Brent, Bromley, Camden, Corporation of London, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Haringey, Harrow, Havering, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Kingston-upon-Thames, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Newham, Redbridge, Richmond-upon-Thames, Southwark, Sutton, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Wandsworth, Westminster
   Provider: Anglia Ruskin University