ESF in Action 3 October 2014
Programme Emma Buckman - Heart of the South West LEP 10.05 – 10.20 Mary Graves - Skills Funding Agency 10.20 – 10.30 Catherine Stevens - BIG Lottery Fund 10.30 – 10.40 10.40 – Lee Tozer - Department for Work & Pensions 10.50 Petroc Project Overview 10.50 – 11.10 11.10 – Comfort Break 11.30 11.30 – Unemployment Employers NEETS 12.15 Workshop Workshop Workshop Workshop feedback & Summary of key messages 12.30 – 13.00 13.00 Conference Close & Networking Lunch
ESF in Action Conference 3 rd October 2014 Emma Buckman Interim Strategy Manager Heart of the South West LEP
Strategy Development Strategic Economic Plan ESIF • Finalised in March • Plan setting out how we will use EU Structural funds to • Overarching economic plan deliver our priorities for the area • Formally submitted to Government at the end of http://www.heartofswlep.co.u January, but can’t be k/strategic-economic-plan finalised until the ‘National Operational Programme’ has been signed off
Our core aims
Our priorities in a nutshell Creating the Conditions for Maximising Productivity and Building on our Growth Employment Opportunities Distinctiveness Infrastructure for growth: The infrastructure and facilities The infrastructure and facilities Transport and accessibility to create more and better needed to support higher value Place Digital infrastructure employment: growth: Sustainable solutions for Enterprise infrastructure Specialist marine sites flood management Strategic employment sites Innovation infrastructure Energy Infrastructure Unlocking housing growth Our environmental assets Creating a favourable business Achieving more sustainable and Supporting higher value growth: Business environment broadly based business growth: Innovation through Smart A simpler, more accessible, Reaching new markets Specialisation business support system Globalisation Building innovation capacity Businesses and individuals can Increasing employment, Creating a world class workforce reach their potential: progression and workforce skills. to support higher value growth: Skills infrastructure Moving people into Enterprise and business People Accessibility to employment skills education/employment Supporting people to Technical and higher level Employer engagement and progress to better jobs Skills for our ownership Improving workforce skills transformational opportunities.
ESIF 2014-2020 • England Programme, steered locally by HOTSW ESIF strategy • The role of the strategy is to set out the types of activity we expect to see funded in this programme • Strategy available on-line • http://www.heartofswlep.co.uk/news/europe an-structural-and-investment-funds-strategy
EUSIF - background • Proposals for Transition More Total Developed investment of: ERDF £43.25m £14.34m £57.60m – ERDF (place blind) ESF £28.84m £14.34m £43.18m – ESF (place blind) EAFRD Not split £15.54m – EAFRD (rural only) • Split by Transition (Plymouth, Torbay and Devon) and More developed (Somerset) • Submitted 31 st Jan
Approach • EUSIF – a tool for implementation of the SEP priorities. • EUSIF investment supporting a large number (but not all) of SEP priorities • Same vision, mission, evidence base • Looked at how we could link SEP priorities together in the form of integrated activities
5 Integrated Activities A. Maximising Innovation through Transformational Opportunities and Smart Specialisation B. Enterprise and SME Competitiveness C. Reaching New Markets D. Digital E. Social and Economic Inclusion
ESF Activities Integrated ESF Activities Activity Group • A - Innovation Employer led solutions to address higher level skills • B – SME Start-up support and leadership and management skills • Competitivenes Linking students and graduates to industry and s retaining higher level skills • C – New No ESF Activity Markets • D - Digital Digital Inclusion • Intermediate, Technical and Higher Level Skills • E – Social Supporting the hardest to reach access economic Inclusion opportunities • Supported approaches for young people • Tackling ‘in work poverty’
Opportunities to input • People theme group consulted on SEP priorities and broad ESF activities • Planned event on14 th November to engage with wider stakeholders and partners to define/shape scope and details
How will activity happen? Opt-Ins ‘Calls for Proposals’ • Three ESF Opt-In providers • Managing Authority to issue ‘Calls for proposals’ – DWP – SFA • Organisations can apply – BIG Lottery against the call • HOTSW currently • ESIF committee sets out an negotiating Opt-In activity implementation plan, • Majority of ESF allocation is identifying areas for calls likely to go through this each year. route
What Next? • Finalising the ESIF strategy, potentially tweaking to reflect UK/EC negotiations up until OP signed off • Setting up the ESIF Area Committee (closing date 9 th Oct) • Working up implementation plan • ESF OP signed in the Autumn • Programme live early in New Year
Heart of the SW – Growth Deal • 130m in total • 63m in 15/16 • 8 th largest overall • 9 th largest per capita
Growth Deal 1+ • Currently in development • Capital funding only • FE Colleges invited to submit proposals • Desire to engage with private sector in future deals
Paul Taylor Head of Strategy & Operations Heart of the South West local enterprise partnership paul.taylor@heartofswlep.co.uk 07525 806334 heartofswlep.co.uk
Skills Funding Agency 3 rd October 2014 Presented to ESF in Action Conference Mary Graves Welcome
Current projects
14 - 19 NEET • Young people aged 14-19 • Either not in education, employment or training (NEET) or at risk of becoming NEET • Likely to face multiple barriers to participation and need a different type of offer to engage them in learning and keep them engaged • Individually tailored solutions leading to the onward progression into education or employment with training.
14 - 19 NEET SW Provider Contract value Contract end date BOURNEMOUTH CHURCHES HOUSING ASSOC LTD £790,264 31 July 2015 CITY COLLEGE PLYMOUTH £222,956 31 July 2015 PETROC £510,432 31 July 2015 PETROC £676,754 31 July 2015 PROSPECTS SERVICES £756,088 31 July 2015 SWINDON COLLEGE £898,752 31 July 2015 WESTON COLLEGE £633,260 31 July 2015
14 - 19 NEET Summary • Generally successful - SW budget spend up to high 90s • Considerable successes in terms of achievements for individuals • Tended to cover Local Authority areas which encouraged good buy-in from local stakeholders
Community Grants • Activities that help individuals in the hardest to reach communities to enter the labour market • Provide grants of up to £15,000 to allow small third sector organisations to access ESF through simplified arrangements • Grant co-ordinating bodies administer Community Grants on a regional basis. They publicise the availability of grants as well as providing support to successful applicants
Community Grants SW Provider Contract value Contract end date THE LEARNING CURVE (VOLUNTARY SECTOR DEVELOPMENT) £1,000,000 31 July 2015
Community Grants Summary • Most successful in terms of overall spend • Simplest in terms of ESF administration requirements
Skills Support for Redundancy • To ensure that capacity is in place to respond to redundancies and the employment implications of local economic conditions • Support newly unemployed individuals • Providers deliver tailored skills activities
Skills Support for Redundancy SW Provider Contract value Contract end date CITY OF BRISTOL COLLEGE £701,200 31 July 2015 LEARNDIRECT LIMITED £1,628,900 31 July 2015
Skills Support for Redundancy Summary • Less successful in terms of overall spend • Engages with businesses which has been difficult over this programme due to the nature of the economy • SW redundancies have tended to be micro organisations rather than large scale - harder to respond to
Skills Support for the Unemployed • Skills support to unemployed individuals on benefits who are looking for work but face a skills barrier to entering work • Training and skills which may include regulated units and qualifications • Training must respond to an individual’s skills needs • Learners aged 19 or over, must be unemployed; in receipt of state benefits; looking for work, and require skills • Training to help people enter work
Skills Support for the Unemployed SW Provider Contract value Contract end date CAREERS SOUTH WEST LIMITED £1,550,000 31 July 2015 CITY OF BRISTOL COLLEGE £677,650 31 July 2015 31 July 2015 LEARNDIRECT LIMITED £518,500
Skills Support for the Unemployed Summary • Worked well particularly where providers: • Were embedded in the local infrastructure • Had a track record of working with the client group
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