Ann Jones Director: Regional WorkingLearning and Skills Council

LSC/RSPs and the Impact on Delivery

23 June 2005

• LSC Changing times

• RSPs Value Added

LSC/RSPs AND THE IMPACT ON DELIVERY

• Make learning truly demand-led• Ensure all 14-19 year olds have access to high

quality, relevant learning opportunities• Transform FE so that it attracts and stimulates

more business investment • Strengthen our role in economic development

so that we provide the skills needed to help individuals into employment

• Strengthen capacity to work effectively at regional level, particularly with RDAs and RSPs

• Improve the skills of workers who deliver public services.

LSC NATIONAL PRIORITIES

LSC FUNDING

2005-06 2006-07 2007-08

£9,322,026 £9,587,875 £10,056,907

LSC CHANGING TIMES

Plan-led funding:

• Funding the provider plan including linking budgets to provision

• Less micro-management, more strategic• Simpler calculation of funds• Variable costs addressed at provider level

(through factor), not at individual learner level• Use provider Management Information, ‘real time’

view

LSC CHANGING TIMES Skills and Employers:• Positioning FE at the heart of the business agenda

and skills strategy• Need to win the confidence of more employers• A greater focus on meeting employers’ needs• More staff with recent experience of business• More provision is delivered in the workplace • Strong vocational specialism(s) to match

local/regional employment pattern• More income generated from employers• FE seen to be accessible, flexible, value for money

solution to skills needs

NETP - the core of a demand-led approach to delivering training for employers of all kinds and offering:

• A ‘first stop shop’ for business development and skills needs

• Access to specialist help in identifying skills needs

• Bespoke flexible training programmes• Free training to enhance employability skills of

employees, including literacy and numeracy• A national service for large multi-site

employers.

LSC CHANGING TIMES

Consistent Regional Sector priorities identified as:

• Construction• Engineering• Health and Social Care• Retail• Manufacturing• Tourism

RSPs’ - SECTOR PRIORITIES

Foster Review of FE. Purpose to identify: • The distinctive contribution colleges make to the learning and skills market• Their long-contribution to economic development and social inclusion• Anything else that needs to happen to transform the sector

• Report in Autumn

LSC CHANGING TIMES

• Value Added

• Influencing planning and funding

• Measuring impact

REGIONAL SKILLS

PARTNERSHIPS

Overall RSPs should be:

‘the vehicle for ensuring that all the adult skills, business support, labour market and productivity services available at regional, local and sectoral level are mobilised to support regional priorities.’ (Source – RSP Prospectus)

•Roles and Responsibilities handout

RSPs ADDING VALUE

RSPs’ - COMMON PRIORITY

AREAS• Development of Leadership and Management Skills

• Providing a seamless brokerage service to meet the needs of employers

• Supporting individuals to enter the workforce and sustain employment, especially those most disadvantaged

• Increase the proportion of the workforce qualified to Level 3

• By 2010 – 2.25 million adults to achieve functional competence in literacy, language and numeracy

• Over 3 million to achieve first full Level 2 qualification

• When fully operational NETP to support, per year:

• 350,000 learners• 50,000 employers• 175,000 first full Level 2 qualifications

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INFLUENCING PLANNING AND FUNDING

• Roles and responsibilities (adding value)• RSPs Performance against their own action

plan• Relationship management

• Possible area:

- public sector

RSPS MEASURING IMPACT

•LSC – Changing times

•RSPs:

- Vehicle for adding value to ‘all’ partner contributions- let them walk before they can run- powerful influence on skills planning and funding

LSC/RSPs AND IMPACT ON DELIVERY

Ann Jones Director: Regional WorkingLearning and Skills Council

LSC/RSPs and the Impact on Delivery

23 June 2005