1 / 15

Welcome

Friday 27 th June 2014 Karen Riley Deputy Director – Employer & Delivery Services (Central Area). Welcome. Skills Funding Agency context. Purpose: To fund skills training for FE in England Size of the task : 1000 providers, £4.3bn

nerice
Download Presentation

Welcome

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Friday 27th June 2014 Karen Riley Deputy Director –Employer & Delivery Services (Central Area) Welcome

  2. Skills Funding Agency context Purpose: To fund skills training for FE in England Size of the task: 1000 providers, £4.3bn Shape of the task: An expert national service tailored to support local needs Customers: Consumers (learners & Employers), LEPs, Government

  3. 5 strategic objectives • More High Quality Apprenticeships and traineeships • Policy into practice • Financial assurance - £4.3bn • Local priorities – learners, employers, LEPs • Excellent performance through people

  4. Business Imperatives • Embed reform – executive agency status • Supply Chain transformation • Qualification reform

  5. 1) Apprenticeships & Traineeships • Increase number of apprenticeships • - especially : 16-24, Highers, SMEs, sectors • Support apprenticeship reform • More high quality traineeships • NAS – employer facing service offer - brand

  6. 2) Policy into Practice • Design & deliver funding systems • Employer routed funding – apprenticeship reform • Support increase in 24+ advanced learning loan activity with SLC • Supporting & managing intervention – FE Commissioner, structure and prospects appraisals etc

  7. 3) Financial Assurance • Budget management – less than 1% • Financial irregularity – recover funds • Assess/Monitor financial stability sector (intervene as necessary) • Audit – NAO • Manage ESF to 2% tolerance - £1.6bn

  8. 4) Support local priorities, individuals, employers • Raise awareness of the careers service offer • Deliver high quality value for money digital offer (AV and NCS) • User satisfaction in the AV system • LEPs – ESIF and Capital

  9. 5) Performance through People • Civil Service people survey • Performance management of staff • People Plan • Pay & Reward

  10. Reform and the Area role • 925 staff – rebalanced by division • 6 + 1 areas • LEP footprint • Central Area – 25 staff

  11. Priorities • Apprenticeships & Traineeships 2) LEPs and localism 3) Intervention with providers

  12. Self service model • Named CDS contact - expertise • Service centre approach evolving • The Hub +

  13. We want to talk to you about … • Business Development: • Regional Apprenticeship Awards – sponsors, host • Ambassador network • Campaigns and anything else ……

  14. Questions?

More Related