Download - Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 1 Train to Gain Provider Support Programme January 2008 Capacity development
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What we’ll cover
• Policy context
• LSC 2008/09 – 2010/11
• Commissioning and funding
• Raising quality
• Regional plan
• The future . . .
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Vision
Economic progress
• Higher productivity and improved overall economic performance
• Ability to compete effectively in the global economy on the basis of high skills, high value-added business strategies
Social justice
• Social mobility – education and skills help each person determine their life chances
• Every person has the opportunity to realise individual potential, overcome disadvantage and achieve economic well-being
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CSR 2007
• Sustainable growth and prosperity
• Fairness and opportunity for all
• Stronger communities and a better quality of life
• A more secure, fair and environmentally sustainable world
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PSA 2 – LSC lead/contribute
Young people
• Raise the educational achievement of all children and young people
• Narrow the gap between children from low income and disadvantaged backgrounds and their peers
Adults
• Improve the skills of the population, as a step towards ensuring a world-class skills base by 2020
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Delivery
Regional Development
Agencies
Sector Skills Councils
Local authorities
Learning and Skills Council
PSA 2
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Raise demand – young people
• Improve offer
– Choice, flexibility, personalisation
• Increase places
• Raise achievement
• Support progression
• Target NEETs
• Provide extra financial support
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Raise demand – adults
• Build ownership
– Skills Accounts
• Promote Train to Gain
• Encourage people into learning
– Careers service
– Joined up skills and employment
• Target excluded people
• Provide extra financial support
• Promote FE
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Raise demand – employers
• Enhance and broaden Train to Gain
– Integrate 19+ Apprenticeships
– Extend Level 3 offer
– Develop Local Employment Partnerships
• Develop culture of investment in training
– Skills Pledge
• Make qualifications more attractive
• Target low-skilled employees
– Unions
• Run skills campaign
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Transforming FE - levers
• Money– Funding aligned to priorities
– Increased fee income
• Performance management– Tighter standards
– Self regulation
• Removing barriers / bureaucracy– Commissioning
– Qualifications
• Market-making– Specialist provision, disadvantage
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Transforming FE - incentives
• Investment
– Infrastructure
– Capacity
• Promotion
– Reputation
• Reward (high performing providers)
– Expansion
– Longer contracts
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Deliver targets – better how?
• Better skills
– Participation
– Achievement
• Better jobs
– Employability
– Employment outcomes
• Better lives
– Developmental learning
– Supporting the most disadvantaged
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Commissioning
• Negotiated commissioning – existing providers
– Most 14-19
– Most adult learner-responsive
– Most employer-responsive
• Open and competitive tendering – existing and new providers
– Gaps in provision or niche provision
– Train to Gain
– Offender learning and skills (2009)
– ESF
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14-19 summary
• Increase overall participation
– Despite demographic decline
• Maintain learner numbers in school sixth forms and colleges
• Increase Apprenticeship places by 18 percent
• Support the next steps in the 14–19 reforms
• Provide a basic funding rates increase of 2.1 percent in 2008/09
• Ensure that institutions have reasonable stability to manage change over the period
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Employer-responsive summary
• Support the rapid expansion of Train to Gain, to a total value of over £1 billion
• Widen the scope of TTG to include Level 3 and higher-level Skills partnerships
• Increase 19–25 Apprenticeships by 20,000
• Allocate £30 million for Apprenticeships for people aged 25 (2008/09)
• Expand the National Employer Service
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Growth
• TTG
– 24,750 starts, up from 14,560 in 2007/08
• Apprenticeships
– Increase in 16-18 Apprenticeships by 120 to 13,890
– Increase in 19-25 Apprenticeships by 600 to 10,290
– Increase in priority groups of learners in Adult Apprenticeships (25+) by 500 to 1,000
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Priority groups
• Young people who are not in education, employment or training
• People with no or low skills
• Lone parents
• People on benefits
• People who live in deprived neighbourhoods;
• People who face issues of social exclusion e.g. offenders
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Participation of priority groups
People who need most support and encouragement to engage with, and remain in, learning
• Foundation Learning Tier
• Maintain investment in provision
– Learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities
– Adult safeguarded learning (PCDL)
– ESOL
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Priority sectors – RES
• Chemicals and pharmaceuticals
• Automotive
• Defence and marine
• Food and drink
• Energy
• Knowledge intensive business services
• Health and social care
• Tourism and hospitality
• Commercial creative
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Other priority sectors
• Underpinning sectors – important in terms of employment
– Construction, transport and retail
• Public sector
– Strategic Health Authority
– Local authorities
• Sectors identified at sub-regional level
– e.g. Tees Valley City Region
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Government . . . how will they work things out?
DCSF
DWP
DIUS
Young people’s education, training and well-being
Education and training of adults, innovation and research
Employment, welfare and benefits, retirement and equality
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Young people – the known
16-19
FE and sixth forms
Work-based learningLocal authorities
Responsible for volume, pattern and range of
provision in each area
Transfer from LSC in 2011
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Skills – the unknown
Sector Skills Councils
Commission for Skills and Employment
Regional Development
Agencies
Devolved government and
city regions
Higher Education
H[and F?]EFCE
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Employment – another unknown
• Employability
• Skills
• Sustainable employment