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Chris Dearnley Michael Heanue London LSC OLASS team OLASS 3 Provider Clarification Event Park Plaza Riverbank, London 29 th October 2008. Welcome. Purpose. National priorities / challenges Regional offender landscape Procurement model Units of procurement Regional priorities
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Chris Dearnley Michael Heanue London LSC OLASS team OLASS 3 Provider Clarification Event Park Plaza Riverbank, London 29th October 2008 Welcome
Purpose National priorities / challenges Regional offender landscape Procurement model Units of procurement Regional priorities Curriculum Future
Challenges Next Steps green paper states that OLASS must: • Improve the quality of learning and skills • Focus on delivery to assist offenders in finding meaningful, long term employment • develop links with employers to enable progression into employment • Plan, organise and prioritise the delivery of learning more effectively • Tackle longstanding weaknesses in the transfer of learner data • Develop new funding protocols for OLASS 3
1. Improve the quality of learning and skills • A whole provider approach is needed to quality improvement and assurance, extending in-house support and systems into prisons • Learning must be inspirational and motivating • Development funding • Focus on performance measures • Stronger partnership working
2. Focus on delivery to assist offenders in finding meaningful, long term employment • Move away from SfL to focus on vocational provision • Skillstrain • ICT refresh
3. Develop links with employers to enable progression into employment • Strong employer engagement strategy • Integrated Employment and Skills • Train to Gain • Adult Advancement career service in 2010
4.Plan, organise and prioritise the delivery of learning more effectively • Flexible curriculum that takes into account the diverse needs of the prison population • Core curriculum across sites and regions • More robust partnership work • Support offenders with ‘through the gate’ programmes and offers
5. Tackle longstanding weaknesses in the transfer of learner data • We expect providers to be ready and prepared with systems and processes already in place for robust ILR and ILP • Planning and preparing for MIAP
6. Develop new funding protocols for OLASS 3 • The LSC will move towards an outcome based funding methodology that is more in line with the demand led system being introduced in the mainstream.
Landscape Custody 7,081 held in the capital’s 8 prisons 11,700+ Londoners held outside the capital Community 50,222 caseloads across 32 boroughs Operational Capacity March 2008; Regional prison capacity surplus March 2008; Caseload snapshot 16/07/08; www.gol.gov.uk/497417/docs/247610/657670/ResettlementStratSep08_v2.1.pdf
Developing Capacity Through the gate / community • across the organisation – LSC • across partners – ESF / S4J • across the provider base - Buddy Scheme
Unit 1 a b • HMP Belmarsh 910 23.8% • HMP Holloway 500 86.4% • HMP Pentonville 1,152 37.0% • HMP Belmarsh East 2010 480 • HMP Belmarsh West 2011 600 a- Operational capacity March 2008; b- Numbers in learning September 2008
Unit 2 a b • HMP Brixton 798 41.4% • HMRC/YOI Feltham B 328 14.6% • HMP Latchmere House 207 7.5% • HMP Wandsworth 1,475 40.7% • HMP Wormwood Scrubs 1,277 23.8% a- Operational capacity March 2008; b- Numbers in learning September 2008
Young People a b • Feltham A 240 56%
Regional priorities • Personalised, appropriate learning • High quality, responsive and relevant provision • Supporting progression during and after sentence
Curriculum QCF / FLT • An inclusive core curriculum in every prison, featuring: • Functional Skills / FLT • Embedded SFL • Employability Skills • QCA accredited vocational qualifications • ‘Mix and balance’ appropriate to each prison