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Introduction to the Skills Funding Agency. Welcome. New Department. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills Creating conditions for business success and economic recovery Promoting/supporting scientific excellence, skills innovation and enterprise

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  1. Introduction to the Skills Funding Agency Welcome

  2. New Department • Department for Business, Innovation and Skills • Creating conditions for business success and economic recovery • Promoting/supporting scientific excellence, skills innovation and enterprise • Giving everyone skills and opportunities to succeed • Responsible for regional economic development/RDAs

  3. NewAgency • Delivery organisation • large-scale programmes delivered consistently/efficiently across the country • national organisation enabling providers to respond to regional priorities • Simplification • National organisation • single account management • funding framework not detailed planning • Opportunities • practice-led policy • skills central to economic recovery

  4. CoreResponsibility • Responsible for all Government/public funding in adult skills and learning (except higher education) • Ensuring individuals and employers can access skills they need to: • Grow their businesses • Develop their careers • Contribute to economic recovery

  5. SkillsInvestmentStrategy • Skills Funding Agency Delivery Plan with public funding based on: • Individual entitlements to equip people with essential skills for employment • Priorities for economic recovery • Co-investment with employers and individuals • Co-investment with Jobcentre Plus

  6. CustomerFocused • Help customers make best use of public funding • Ensure they receive a high quality service • Secure the best value for what the customer has invested • More choice will be provided through: • Skills Accounts • reliable and up to date information and advice on what is available (face to face, online and phone) • more flexible routes to learning • Backed by specialist customer services – National Apprenticeship Service, Adult Advancement and Careers Service, National Employer Service

  7. Providers&theDeliverySystem • Maintaining a network of approved suppliers • guaranteeing customers quality and availability of providers and provision in all areas and sectors • Helping providers deliver a high quality service to customers • through single account management system • increased and increasing budget flexibility • 21st century IT solutions

  8. A new role: a new landscape • Skills Funding Agency facilitative role • managing a system that promotes responsiveness • focusing on making services meet customer needs • Providers become the strategic players • developing and implementing local strategies • balancing identified priorities with local demand • Providers will operate with flexible budgets • able to direct funding within programme areas • earning the ability to vire across programme areas • rewarded for performance and meeting priorities

  9. Whatwillbedifferent? • Single business model – national consistency • National Account Management structure replaces old partnership team model • Performance management rather than partnership management • Lighter touch - management and intervention differentiated by risk • Single Account Management System • Putting the onus more on colleges and providers to meet local, regional and national priorities as they see fit rather than top-down planning • Providing more flexibilities and freedoms

  10. Simplification • Budget flexibility/simplification • Purchasing power in the hands of the customer through Skills Accounts • “Course labelling” • Potential for customer feedback/redress • Personal Learning Record at heart of the system • Qualifications Credit Framework (QCF)

  11. Readiness • Successful transfer of staff/functions • Skills Investment Strategy • -joint work with BIS • - early briefing • - new budget flexibilities • Single Account Management System • -Account Managers in place • - External readiness review • Positioning NAS within Skills Funding Agency • Joint working with YPLA/LAs • - shared services • - critical inter-dependencies

  12. ThankYou

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