Capacity development

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Train to Gain Provider Support Programme

January 2008

Capacity development


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

• 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

Delivery

PSA

CSR 2007

2007-11

2011

2008-11


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

Regional Development

Agencies

Sector Skills Councils

Local authorities

Learning and Skills Council

PSA 2


LSC 2008/09 – 2010/11


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


Transformation?


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 and funding


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 funds


14-19 participation


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


Adult funds


Employer-responsive participation


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


Funding pattern


Regional plan


Where the money will go


Adult budgets – by level


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


Analysis


The future


Government . . . how will they work things out?

DCSF

DWP

DIUS

Young people’s education, training and well-being

Education and training of adults, innovation and research

Employment, welfare and benefits, retirement and equality


Young people – the known

16-19

FE and sixth forms

Work-based learningLocal authorities

Responsible for volume, pattern and range of

provision in each area

Transfer from LSC in 2011


Skills – the unknown

Sector Skills Councils

Commission for Skills and Employment

Regional Development

Agencies

Devolved government and

city regions

Higher Education

H[and F?]EFCE


Employment – another unknown

• Employability

• Skills

• Sustainable employment


Your future?

Capacity development

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