dwp supplier event 23 may 2014 national employer service team sunita singal and guests

1Department for Work & Pensions

Sunita Singal National Employer Service Team

[email protected] Tel 0121 626 3263

With

Mike Byrne, Managing Director, Health & PublicSector Management Consulting, Accenture

Jo Daniels, Sustainable Communities Manager

at Marks and Spencer

Making a Difference - what can you do as a supplier and an Employer?

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Supporting those that are furthest from the labour market – WHAT CAN YOU DO TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

• DWP Key Strategic Objective to help those that are furthest from the labour market to move into sustainable employment.

• Hear from Accenture as a supplier of services to DWP and their approach on reducing Youth unemployment.

• Marks and Spencer’s on how they are working with their supplier community to reduce Youth Unemployment and the 2% UK challenge announced by Marc Boland.

• We welcome more employer led approaches that are different and unique and make a difference

• My challenge to you today is that you can all offer something that will tackle unemployment and make a difference!!

• Not only DWP suppliers but also employers.

• Next steps - how you will take this forward within your own organisations and consider how you get your supply chains on board.



Mike Byrne, Managing Director, Health &

Public Sector Management Consulting,

Accenture

Skills to Succeed Academy

Skills to Succeed Academy

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

• Built a solution for a target market that has historically struggled to engage with employability skills learning.

• Focused on advancing employment and entrepreneurship opportunities through skills development.

• The Academy forms a core part of Accenture’s volunteering offering in the UK, aiming to enhance employability skills of 20,000 15-24 year olds, predominantly those not currently in education, employment or training (NEETS) by the end of 2015.

REDUCING YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT

Performance Simulations

Computer Based

Training (CBT)

Role of AdvisorIdentify learner needs and define ‘curriculum’Identify and work through participants challenges

Skills to Succeed Academy Training HandbookSupport materials to assist Job Advisors/ trainers when planning, preparing and delivering the Skills to Succeed Academy

Exercises Checklists Templates Action

Plans

YOU AND YOUR

CAREER

YOU AND YOUR

CAREERSUCCESS IN WORK

SUCCESS IN WORK

GETTING A JOB

GETTING A JOB

Content Materials

Advisor / Trainer-Led Activities

Offline Learning

Mobile app: InterviewAce

Integrated Training Approach

Innovative, digital, cloud based learning, employability training programme

ACADEMY BENEFITS

Category Benefits

Young Jobseekers

• An innovative and interactive training solution

• Realistic characters, Relevant scenarios and Engaging techniques

• Covers end-to-end jobseeking journey

DWP

• Adviser led• Easily integrates into existing programmes• Digital and cloud based• It’s free

Accenture

• Increases employee engagement• Improves capabilities• Heightened market visibility• Increased client collaboration

SUPPLIER COLLABORATION• Suppliers brought together with one shared goal

• We collaborated with Voluntary organisations, Education establishments, Welfare to Work providers and Government departments/agencies to expand our reach and develop a solution.

• Skills development is key to sustainable employment• Skills enhancement is the first step to moving people with

disadvantages closer to the labour market.

• Addressing the development of basic employability skills from an early age is crucial in tackling youth unemployment, and will also help to enhance UK regeneration, education and economic growth

.• Reducing unemployment requires long term commitment

• We suppliers need to help by continuing to actively collaborate with Educational establishments and Industry, to ensure that skills investment across the sector is targeted effectively and achieves maximum results.

Since April 2012, 10,001 young people have accessed the Skills to Succeed Academy. Of those that responded to the survey, 72% said that the Skills to Succeed Academy has increased their employability skills!

*Information captured using the new LMS since April 2013. Note – data on this slide is changing on a daily basis

13,045 training modules completed

Average competence score: 3.72/5*

7,352 hours of online training completed

Average confidence score: 3.77/5*

LMS reporting information:

8,509 young people have accessed the S2S Academy on the new LMS

Proportion of participants who responded to the survey and said:

•They are more confident: 75%•They have better skills: 72%•The training is of high quality: 70%

Mobile App Downloads:iPhone App 302

Android App 100-500

Average quiz score: 3.84/5*

THE ACADEMY WORKS!

https://www.s2sacademy.com/



Jo Daniels

Sustainable Communities Manager, Plan A

Marks and Spencer

Tackling Youth Employment and Movement to Work


What’s the issue?

1 in 5 young people aged 16 – 24 are unemployed

The figures on long-term youth unemployment are

x4 greaterin the last decade

53% of NEETS unemployed for more than a

year feel they have been

permanently left behind

in life due to unemployment

Over the next decade youth unemployment could cost the UK an

estimated

£28 Billion*

Young NEETS

are more than x2 as likely

to feel unable to cope as their peers

1 in 5 young people aged 16 – 24 are unemployed


There are three elements to the plan:

1. Delivering Make Your Mark in M&S - Launched in May 2013, Make Your Mark is a programme run with The Prince’s Trust which has given 1440 young people (NEETs) a 4 week work placement in an M&S store, with a 50% into work target for those young people.

2. Engaging our Suppliers- working with a core group of suppliers across to open up more opportunities for young people and to test the ‘accelerator model’. Currently have 88 suppliers across Foods, Property & Construction, Logistics, IT, GM, .Com, will reach c100.

3. Working with other UK Businesses - Movement to Work A coalition of businesses committed to building their programmes and work with their suppliers: Unilever, BT, Accenture, Tesco, Barclays, Centrica, GSK, National Grid, HSBC, Kingfisher, BAE Systems, WPP, Civil Service.

10,000 companies - 100,000 placements - 18 months

M&S Approach to Addressing Youth Employment


Movement to Work – Lead Companies


Movement to Work will create 100,000 vocational training and work experience placements for young people, aged 18-24, who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) by June 2015.

Efforts will be focused on those NEETs who have been out of education, employment or training for some time.

The placements will be designed to deliver a wide range of positive outcomes including developing new work skills and experience, gaining self-confidence and motivation, or entering or re-entering education or training.

In addition, placements will, where possible, be linked to jobs or apprenticeships in order to meet the Movement’s aspiration to collectively support 50% of young people trained to progress to fixed term or permanent employment.

Employer pledge

To provide 4-6 week employability training placements for NEETs aged 18-24 equivalent to up to 2% of the company's UK workforce.

To link placements, where possible, to fixed term and permanent jobs or apprenticeships.

To engage own supply and client base in the programme, asking them to make the same commitment, in order to create a nationwide multiplier effect.

Movement to Work – Vision and Pledge

www.movementtowork.com

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