MAYOR’S SKILLS STRATEGY F O R O G H R A H M A N I S T R AT E G Y, P O L I C Y A N D R E L AT I O N S H I P S M A N A G E R
Mayoral commitments on skills • Establish a Skills for Londoners taskforce to develop a city-wide strategic approach to skills • Seek a devolution deal over further education • Create thousands of new, high quality apprenticeships • Setup a digital talent programme as part of a tech talent pipeline • Establish a construction academy scheme with the housebuilding industry
Skills for Londoners (SfL) Taskforce LEAP Mayor Deputy Employer Skills / London Mayor reps education Councils experts Lead Stakeholder Advisory Group Learner and Skills and education employee experts and Employers and Central and representatives providers business London representative Government VCS organisations representatives Social organisations enterprises Think tanks Task & Finish Task & Finish Group Group Task & Finish Task & Finish Group Group
Skills Strategy Background • First Mayor to produce a stand-alone Skills Strategy for London. • First time London will see true devolution of part of the skills system (£400m p/a Adult Education Budget from 2019/20). • Greater focus on inclusion, diversity and social mobility. • Greater shift to outcome-based commissioning. • Collaborative and strategic approach between London government, employers, skills providers, unions and key stakeholders.
A Skills Strategy for London 16+ technical & vocational education Adult education & community learning Employment and in-work progression support Pathways from school Pathways to further and other learning learning and work settings Careers information, advice and guidance
Mayor’s Vision for Skills A City for all Londoners – making sure Londoners and employers get the skills they need to succeed in a fair, inclusive and thriving economy.
Skills Strategy Priorities 1. Empower all Londoners to access the education and skills to participate in society and Empowering progress in education and work Londoners 2. Meet the needs of London’s Meeting economy and employers, now A economic strategic & and in the future city-wide employer approach need 3. Deliver a strategic city-wide technical skills and adult education offer.
EDS & Skills Strategies Economic – EDS consultation until Development 13 th March 2018 Strategy (statutory) – Skills Strategy consultation closed 2 nd Skills Strategy January 2018, final (non-statutory) publication in May 2018 Skills & – Skills & Employment Employment Framework published Framework May 2018
Mayor’s Digital Talent Programme £7million investment to plug a growing digital skills shortage in London’s labour market with diverse, home - grown talent Supporting young women and young Londoners from diverse ethnic and disadvantaged backgrounds aged 16-24 years old Working with industry, skills providers & schools, women in tech organisations, youth & community groups and extra- curricular providers.
Outputs 2,000 young 500 Uni students 1,000 young people access gain new skills & people access careers advice work experience digital skills & information with SMEs training sign-posting 400 start-ups 400 ‘Educators’ and SMEs receive digital access higher skills training level skills
Skills Devolution • The Adult Education Budget (AEB) is being devolved to the Mayor from 2019/20 • AEB is also being devolved to other Combined Authorities after a year’s delay: • Greater Manchester, West Midlands, Sheffield City Region, Liverpool City Region, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Tees Valley, West of England.
What is the AEB? D OESN ’ T INCLUDE : I NCLUDES : • • Apprenticeships 19+ skills provision • • 16-19 provision Community Learning • • Careers provision Discretionary Learner Support Delivered by: o FE Colleges o Local authorities o Independent training providers (ITPs)
Challenges • Still many unknowns: • Size of London’s funding allocation - dependent on 17/18 delivery to London residents • Whether London’s allocation will be single or multi - year • Tolerances for out of London delivery • Data - detail of how existing budget is spent and what it buys – hampers our ability to model future allocations to providers • Availability of administration budget for the GLA
Opportunities • Ability to align the budget to the Mayor’s priorities and needs of Londoners and London’s businesses • Move to more outcome based commissioning • Address identified needs in London (which are different to national priorities, e.g. ESOL) • Utilise remaining ESF (£135m) by matching it with the devolved AEB – potentially doubling it into a £270m fund.
AEB implementation timeline Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4 Evaluation of Programme Transition plan Moving into the deal clarification implementation delivery Determining Determining the Putting the Assuming whether the operational requisite responsibility for offer from govt. structure, structures and the devolved AEB is acceptable in system and systems in place principle: resourcing - Readiness requirements: conditions - Funding settlement Feb – Sept April – Nov Nov 2017 – Aug Aug 2019 2017 2017 2019 Acceptance of devolution deal in principle
Comms & Engagement Plan Activity How When Provider visits o One-to-one providers visits by officers and o December 2017 – March the Deputy Mayor 2018 Mayoral Decision, confirming the Mayoral Decision February 2018 o o Mayor’s intention to proceed with AEB devolution FAQs/ communication note on Core script on FAQs published on GLA’s SfL February 2018 o o AEB progress webpages Provider roundtables Roundtables to test and feed in views to March-April 2018 o o the developing AEB Framework Governance confirmed and new Quarterly meetings (tbc) From May 2018 o o boards/ strategic groups set up Provider engagement events Regional and sub-regional events From May 2018 o o Press / political engagement Publication of the final Skills Strategy, SfL May 2018 o o Capital round and AEB Framework Mayor / Deputy Mayor visit to provider(s) o Website development and Dedicated website pages From May 2018 o o information bulletins Blogs and information bulletins o Twitter account to be established for the o unit
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