LGFL EMBC

The East Midlands Broadband Community was formed as a result of the Department for Education and Skills Regional Broadband initiative.

The DfES required local authorities to come together and form Consortia in order to receive Standards Fund monies to develop regional 2 megabit symmetrical broadband services for primary schools and 8/10 megabit for secondary schools.

The East Midlands Broadband Community aims to collaborate to promote the development of an integrated regional network of ICT systems, services and content management in the East Midlands.

embc is clearly focused on the educational outcomes to be achieved, and how to deliver the best value for money solutions to achieve these outcomes.

The East Midlands Broadband Community (embc) was formed by the nine Local Education Authorities in the East Midlands:

The new embc is made up of 8 local authorities who have formed a company called embc pl.

This East Midlands Broadband Learning Network is being developed by embc to deliver better value access to multimedia learning.