Welcome Current projects 14 - 19 NEET Young people aged 14-19 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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

Skills Support for the Workforce • To meet local skills needs identified by the Local Enterprise Partnership • Emphasis on individuals progressing to higher levels of learning or to Apprenticeships • There is a responsive element within the contract, to enable providers to adapt provision to meet emerging skills needs, as identified by the Local Enterprise Partnership • Supports employed individuals who work in small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and micro sized organisations.

Skills Support for the Workforce SW Provider Contract value Contract end date SERCO LIMITED £5,339,554 31 July 2015 SOMERSET COUNTY COUNCIL £188,500 31 July 2015 Provider Contract value Contract end date WESTON COLLEGE £1,574,000 31 July 2015 WESTON COLLEGE £278,000 31 July 2015

Skills Support for the Workforce Summary • Later start date so too soon to tell • LRF element has been successful • Demonstrated that working on a LEP-scale footprint can work – LEP level management partnerships have developed

Workplace Learning • To promote the in-work progression of employed individuals with low skills levels • Delivery of work related skills training • Enabling individuals to improve their employment status and to move on to undertake higher levels of training • Particularly aimed at those vulnerable to future unemployment • 19 or over

Workplace Learning SW Provider Contract value Contract end date PETROC £3,659,580 31 July 2015 PETROC £453,173 31 July 2015

Workplace Learning Summary • A single contract for the whole of the South West co- financing area proved challenging (with ESF rule of only one layer of subcontracting) • https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sfa-esf- programme-summaries

ESF 2014 - 20

Working with LEPs 1. ESF plans, specifications, procurement, reporting 2. FE Capital 3. Skills support, advice and guidance, including facilitating relationships with providers

Issues to consider • LLDD, age, gender, sector focus • Rigid specifications vs flexibility to meet new and emerging challenges • How long should projects be procured for? • How to manage impact rather than outcome • Links to other programmes – ERDF, JCP, Big • Election – how to add value to mainstream when mainstream priorities change • Opportunity to think differently

Issues to consider • Potential providers - Register of Training Organisations • Agency procurement will still be about education and skills • Timescales

Area Teams Deputy Director – Paul Lucken The East Hampshire, IOW The Somerset, Devon and and Dorset Team Cornwall Team Fareham Office Plymouth Office Head of Employer and Delivery Head of Employer and Delivery Services – Fiona Willmot Services – Tony Skeel 3 x Managers – Alan Jenkinson, Norma 3 x Managers – Richard Daulton, Alison Landgraf, Caroline Pover Thorpe, Mary Graves 1 x Advisor – Lyndsey Hamper 1 x Advisor – Debbie Young 1 x Administrator – Malcolm Wright 1 x Administrator – Sadie Cox

Any questions? mary.graves@sfa.bis.gov.uk