South East London Housing Partnership HCA apprenticeships & skills activities

1. South East London Housing PartnershipHCA apprenticeships & skills activities Liz Cowie 28/07/2010

2. Why is the HCA committed to promoting apprenticeships and employment and training initiatives? • Government commitment to maximising employment opportunities • Important in current economic climate – rising unemployment • HCA outcomes are about thriving communities; building capacity and capability in communities is key to this • Creating an employment and skills dividend

3. HCA’s Employment and Skills outputs

4. HCA London’s regional Employment and Skills targets • For the 08/11 period, the HCA nationally has been given the target of delivering 2,800 apprenticeships and training initiatives through NAHP and other housing pledge-funded projects • Based on baseline data from across various programmes, the London apprenticeship-specific targets are to deliver 403 newly created or safeguarded apprenticeships. To date, 21 have been delivered

5. E&S Monitoring forms for NAHP-funded schemes • Discussed and agreed at AHPB • Single region proforma • NAHP: for RPs who only work in one region • LANB • Multi region proforma • NAHP: for RPs who work in two or more regions

6. Single region proforma • For NAHP: Name, method statement, forecast apprenticeship numbers inserted by E&S team from Oct ’09 proforma • Regional staff fill in SOY allocation • The RP fills in the site details and outputs • For LANB: Regional staff fill out name, site details, approved allocation • LAs fill in outputs • Any comments or points to note are filled in per quarter

7. Multi-region - Summary sheet • Name, method statement, forecast apprenticeship numbers inserted by E&S team from Oct ’09 proforma • Mark the regions the RP works in and will be reporting on (delete “X’s” where not applicable) • The ‘Achieved’ outputs on the Summary sheet are populated by a formula already inserted.

8. Multi-region proformaRegion specific reporting • The partner fills in site details and outputs for each of the regions they work in • Any comments or points to note are filled in per quarter • Tabs at the bottom of the spreadsheet are ignored for regions they do not work in

9. Return dates • Return dates for ES monitoring forms are:

10. Q1 Feedback from RPs • There is a widespread existing commitment, by most RPs, to the creation of Employment and Skills opportunities at the local level • A number of London RPs refer to the Notting Hill Housing’s Construction Training Initiative (CTI) in West London • The cost implication of Employment and Skills, especially apprenticeships, requirements needs to be considered • There are some significant difficulties in monitoring through the supply chain • Employment and Skills returns were required at too short notice for Q1 reporting on NAHP-linked outputs

11. Next steps • Most RPs are starting to consult and create framework agreements for the creation and/or procurement of streamlined Employment and Skills opportunities • Many RPs are starting to introduce streamlined systems for monitoring Employment and Skills outputs on each contract on a monthly or quarterly basis • Some RPs are starting their own apprenticeship sponsorship schemes

12. Issues for HCA • Advice is needed on the monitoring and evaluation of the apprenticeship and training profile and matrices • Best practice should be shared more widely: understand what other RPs have done, strategy and policy for implementation, procedures to be applied through the supply chain, etc.

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