Dear Content Provider,

Becta, as the lead agency for shaping and delivering the e-Strategy has been tasked with developing strategic advice and co-ordination of a resource discovery strategy.

This resource discovery strategy will aim to ensure practitioners and learners have access to systems, channels and networks so that they can easily select and access appropriate, high-quality content.

In providing best practice guidance as this strategy develops, Becta will review how it provides access to content through its own systems, channels and networks.

The first element of this review is to rationalise our services. You will be aware of the recent closure of the National Grid for Learning as part of this process.

Further activity is now underway to review the scope of the content types included in the repository Becta manages, the partnerships which will be developed around it and our responsibility for Curriculum Online.

The repository will be focused on high-quality, free resources for practical application in a teaching and learning context.

This means that some sites which had been included in the National Grid for Learning now fall outside the scope of the revised repository.

As a result of our initial review we have found that your site lies within the scope of the revised repository.

We have used the following criteria in this first review. Sites will be included where the primary purpose is to provide free educational content for teaching and learning.