Improving Outcomes….

A Partnership Approach

Dee Desgranges

Assistant Director

Lifelong Learning Skills & Communities

The National Challenge

The legislative imperative• “From April 2010, the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and

Learners Act comes in to force and, responsibility for the funding and organisation of 16-19 education and training will be transferred from the Learning and Skills Council to local authorities.”

• “We are taking this opportunity to also reform the arrangements for learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities (LLDD) up to the age of 25, by placing responsibility for those LLDD aged 19-25 with a learning difficulty assessment with local authorities.”

The National ChallengeRaising The Participation Age

The legislative imperative

New duty applies to anyone who is:• Under 18 and• Resident in England and• Without level 3 qualification

Duty is to participate in:• Full time education • Apprenticeship• Part time accredited learning (at least 280 guided learning hours per

year – around a day per week) if in employment or volunteering full time (at least 20 hours per week)

• Introduced in phases – to 17 in 2013; 18 in 2015

The National ChallengeRaising the Participation Age

The Financial Imperative

Redressing the negative – NEET (Not in Education, employment or Training) to EET

It costs• Additional lifetime cost of £97k per individual NEET

• RPA could generate £2.4 billion for each cohort (£2 to £1 return on increased investment in additional provision and support)

The National Challenge

The moral imperative

• All young people should achieve their potential in school

• Too many young people with LDD are not in education, employment or training after 16 (NEET)

• Some have low expectations about future employment opportunities

• Households of unemployment

The National Challenge

The moral imperative

It really costs

A long term NEET at age 21 is more likely to be• Unemployed/ under employed• Lower income• Criminal record• Poor health & depression• Death

The Sheffield Challenge

Reflects the national picture

How do we develop • Appropriate learning & training provision• Support for families• Employment opportunities• Cost effective joined up services

For all of our vulnerable young people but particularly for those with LDD

By Doing Things Better…

• Intelligent commissioning• Raising expectations• Supporting & Including• Growing our own• Honesty and transparency

…….Partnership working

Local Solutions

• Knowing the cohort Earlier Assessment

• Fair treatment Vulnerability Matrix

• Improved and more diverse options Growing Our Own

• Person centred and realistic Individualised Programmes

• Relevant and respected qualifications Foundation Learning

• Sheffield, the first choice My City Learning

Knowing the cohort Earlier Assessment

Knowing the cohort

The Learning for Living & Work Framework

Working with young people and their families from Y9 (age 13) to plan for post 16

The Local AuthoritySchoolsConnexionsHealthSocial ServicesPost 16 providers

A Vulnerability Matrix

Data rich

Objective and independent

Equality across schools and the city

Agreed indicators

Workless Household

LDD

Exclusion

Absence

Known to YOS

LAC

Older NEET

Free SchoolMeals

Vulnerability

Growing Our Own

Connexions

Sprint T

raining

Barnardo’s

SYTG

Whirlow Farm

Signpost

Bents Green

Talbot School

BTCV

Mencap

OMIT

Sheffield

College

Sheff Live

KMP

Heritage Park

School

Individualised Programmes

Health

Housing

LeisureEmployment

Support

Learning

• Better outcomes• Fewer NEETs• More appropriate provision• Excellent support service• Increased employment opportunities• Strong Partnership Working