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Work and Skills Plans A shared endeavour

Work and Skills Plans A shared endeavour. Alice Bradley Communities and Local Government. Where did this come from?. You DWP and CLG asked Councillor Stephen Houghton to conduct a review into the local authority role into tackling workless

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Work and Skills Plans A shared endeavour

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  1. Work and Skills PlansA shared endeavour Alice Bradley Communities and Local Government

  2. Where did this come from? • You • DWP and CLG asked Councillor Stephen Houghton to conduct a review into the local authority role into tackling workless • The review recommended a greater role for local partnerships in tackling worklessness incorporating more responsibility for coordinating, commissioning and managing employment and skills services • The report also argued the need for a strengthened business planning and accountability framework for local and sub-regional partners

  3. Who has to do a Plan, and by when? • This is an interim year • Any local authority that has successfully bid for the Future Jobs Fund will need to complete a Work and Skills Plan by April 2010 • Those seeking freedoms and flexibilities through the ESB or MAA process should use a Work and Skills Plan to set out their case • We will consider making plans mandatory for April 2011

  4. Making it work - a shared priority • 89% of LAAs have identified a worklessness target and 83% a skills target. The target on NEETs was the most common indicator selected in the LAAs • 61 local authorities receive a share of the £1.5bn WNF • Over half the 100,000 FJF jobs awarded so far are being delivered by Local Authority partnerships - most of these bids have been submitted by sub-regional partnerships - MAAs or City Region groupings • Through LGA pledged to double the number of apprenticeship in Local Government

  5. Worklessness Assessments • Part of the Local Economic Assessment • New local economic assessments should bring local data and understanding together within a shared common evidence base • policy making at all levels (regional/sub-regional/local) needs to be based on a shared understanding of local economic conditions, opportunities & challenges • Local authorities need to understand their functional economic geography – looking beyond their boundaries to understand economic linkages with wider region/sub-region • But they also need to understand spatial priorities – those areas and communities most at risk • Where strong economic links are identified local authorities should collaborate in preparing assessments

  6. Partnership is key to effective planning on worklessness

  7. Work and Skills Plans • Add value by: • Creating transparency and local accountability as to how partners’ own resources are being used to deliver shared targets (targets that have already been established through the LAA or MAA processes); • Identifying responsive and local actions required to supplement national employment and skills programmes; • Better brigading efforts within an area, including a robust assessment of the gaps in national provision • Supporting an informed conversation with Government Departments; sub-regional Employment and Skills Boards; Regional Development Agencies and other key partners on the future of employment and skills service delivery within their areas.

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