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Capacity development. Train to Gain Provider Support Programme January 2008. Big bucks. What we’ll cover. Policy context LSC 2008/09 – 2010/11 Commissioning and funding Raising quality Regional plan The future. Policy context. Vision. Economic progress
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Capacity development Train to Gain Provider Support Programme January 2008
What we’ll cover • Policy context • LSC 2008/09 – 2010/11 • Commissioning and funding • Raising quality • Regional plan • The future . . .
Vision Economic progress • Higher productivity and improved overall economic performance • Ability to compete effectively in the global economy on the basis of high skills, high value-added business strategies Social justice • Social mobility – education and skills help each person determine their life chances • Every person has the opportunity to realise individual potential, overcome disadvantage and achieve economic well-being
Perspective 2007-11 CSR 2007 2011 PSA 2008-11 Delivery
CSR 2007 • Sustainable growth and prosperity • Fairness and opportunity for all • Stronger communities and a better quality of life • A more secure, fair and environmentally sustainable world
PSA 2 – LSC lead/contribute Young people • Raise the educational achievement of all children and young people • Narrow the gap between children from low income and disadvantaged backgrounds and their peers Adults • Improve the skills of the population, as a step towards ensuring a world-class skills base by 2020
Delivery Sector Skills Councils Learning and Skills Council PSA 2 Regional Development Agencies Local authorities
Priorities Demand Supply
Raise demand – young people • Improve offer • Choice, flexibility, personalisation • Increase places • Raise achievement • Support progression • Target NEETs • Provide extra financial support
Raise demand – adults • Build ownership • Skills Accounts • Promote Train to Gain • Encourage people into learning • Careers service • Joined up skills and employment • Target excluded people • Provide extra financial support • Promote FE
Raise demand – employers • Enhance and broaden Train to Gain • Integrate 19+ Apprenticeships • Extend Level 3 offer • Develop Local Employment Partnerships • Develop culture of investment in training • Skills Pledge • Make qualifications more attractive • Target low-skilled employees • Unions • Run skills campaign
Transforming FE - levers • Money • Funding aligned to priorities • Increased fee income • Performance management • Tighter standards • Self regulation • Removing barriers / bureaucracy • Commissioning • Qualifications • Market-making • Specialist provision, disadvantage
Transforming FE - incentives • Investment • Infrastructure • Capacity • Promotion • Reputation • Reward (high performing providers) • Expansion • Longer contracts
Deliver targets – better how? • Better skills • Participation • Achievement • Better jobs • Employability • Employment outcomes • Better lives • Developmental learning • Supporting the most disadvantaged
Commissioning • Negotiated commissioning – existing providers • Most 14-19 • Most adult learner-responsive • Most employer-responsive • Open and competitive tendering – existing and new providers • Gaps in provision or niche provision • Train to Gain • Offender learning and skills (2009) • ESF
14-19 summary • Increase overall participation • Despite demographic decline • Maintain learner numbers in school sixth forms and colleges • Increase Apprenticeship places by 18 percent • Support the next steps in the 14–19 reforms • Provide a basic funding rates increase of 2.1 percent in 2008/09 • Ensure that institutions have reasonable stability to manage change over the period
Employer-responsive summary • Support the rapid expansion of Train to Gain, to a total value of over £1 billion • Widen the scope of TTG to include Level 3 and higher-level Skills partnerships • Increase 19–25 Apprenticeships by 20,000 • Allocate £30 million for Apprenticeships for people aged 25 (2008/09) • Expand the National Employer Service
Growth • TTG • 24,750 starts, up from 14,560 in 2007/08 • Apprenticeships • Increase in 16-18 Apprenticeships by 120 to 13,890 • Increase in 19-25 Apprenticeships by 600 to 10,290 • Increase in priority groups of learners in Adult Apprenticeships (25+) by 500 to 1,000
Priority groups • Young people who are not in education, employment or training • People with no or low skills • Lone parents • People on benefits • People who live in deprived neighbourhoods; • People who face issues of social exclusion e.g. offenders
Participation of priority groups People who need most support and encouragement to engage with, and remain in, learning • Foundation Learning Tier • Maintain investment in provision • Learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities • Adult safeguarded learning (PCDL) • ESOL
Priority sectors – RES • Chemicals and pharmaceuticals • Automotive • Defence and marine • Food and drink • Energy • Knowledge intensive business services • Health and social care • Tourism and hospitality • Commercial creative
Other priority sectors • Underpinning sectors – important in terms of employment • Construction, transport and retail • Public sector • Strategic Health Authority • Local authorities • Sectors identified at sub-regional level • e.g. Tees Valley City Region
Government . . . how will they work things out? Young people’s education, training and well-being DCSF DIUS Education and training of adults, innovation and research Employment, welfare and benefits, retirement and equality DWP
Young people – the known Transfer from LSC in 2011 16-19 FE and sixth forms Work-based learning Local authorities Responsible for volume, pattern and range of provision in each area
Skills – the unknown Sector Skills Councils Regional Development Agencies Commission for Skills and Employment Devolved government and city regions Higher Education H[and F?]EFCE
Employment – another unknown • Employability • Skills • Sustainable employment