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Integrating Welfare to Work & Skills Locally: Doing what it says on the tin

Integrating Welfare to Work & Skills Locally: Doing what it says on the tin Jerry Baker, COO, Employment Mushall Khan, Group Change Manager Kim Pattison, Head of External Relations. Company overview. esg. formed in 2007

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Integrating Welfare to Work & Skills Locally: Doing what it says on the tin

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  1. Integrating Welfare to Work & Skills Locally: Doing what it says on the tin Jerry Baker, COO, Employment Mushall Khan, Group Change Manager Kim Pattison, Head of External Relations

  2. Company overview • esg. formed in 2007 • Bringing together a history of employment related and skills provision • Delivering to Government departments for over 20 years including DWP and BIS

  3. Company overview Skills Employment NDDP IAP ND for Lone Parents EZ JSPSC Train to Gain PLA Apprenticeships

  4. Policy context Why? • 2.67m people unemployed in the UK • 1.04m < 18 years old • 2.57m people claiming Employment Support Allowance/Incapacity Benefit • New skills essential for support into employment and sustainability • History of calls for integrated skills and employment • Government announcement to ‘abolish Leitch’

  5. Work programme and Apprenticeships

  6. Policy context Some progression? • Adult Skills Budget – 2.5% to be spent on improved provision to unemployed learners – work related skills. • Single Unit ‘bite-sized’ courses to help make unemployed people more ‘marketable’ • Still a complex maze of funding and benefit rules apply around provision • Policy continues to change and develop

  7. Company overview Skills Employment

  8. Work programme • Work Programme budget limited • Programme designed without skills integration • Work Programme SHOULD be the core programme on which other funding hangs, a combination of all funding to unemployed people • Providers need to attract funding through other sources • Providers expected to stitch things together • Didn’t happen A Work Programme that truly works – including skills development – couldn’t be done without SFA funding

  9. Current situation Source: AELP/LSIS Provider Guide to Delivering Adult Skills Provision to the Unemployed

  10. Smart ‘Alec’ moment

  11. Company overview

  12. Timeframe

  13. Making it happen – The Journey • Launch of project - August 2011 • Employability Skills units Level 1 & 2 • Vocational units: • Childcare, Health & Social Care • Retail, Customer Service, Business • Administration, • Call Centre, Hospitality • Leisure, travel & Tourism, • Hair • People, product, process

  14. Making it happen – People, Product, Process • Customers • Work Programme….aspirations • Employers…..demand • Teaching • Vocational v Generic • Linking into skills division • Part of assessor caseloads • Classroom delivery • Support staff

  15. Making it happen – People, Product, Process • Awarding body • Short sharp delivery • Resource packs • Range of levels • Employability skills units • Vocational units

  16. Making it happen – People, Product, Process • Paper, paper and more paper!! • Fit for purpose • Sign up • Review • Verification • Reports • Tight turnaround • Who???

  17. What next? • Jan to May 2012: 4212 units • Pilot …. roll out • Functional skills • More single units • Vocational routeways • Sector based academies • Pre apprenticeship training

  18. Demand Workforce Jobs by Sector UK (NOMIS) Source: AELP/LSIS Provider Guide to Delivering Adult Skills Provision to the Unemployed

  19. And lest we forget…

  20. Company overview Skills and Employment = Sustainability

  21. Questions?

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