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Michael Heanue
Learner Services ManagerSkills Directorate
Overview
•Skills Funding Agency
•Integrated Adult Careers Service
•Skills Accounts
•Programmes for the Unemployed
•Offender Learning
Skills Funding Agency
Profile funding for providers
Issue funding guidance for providers
New flexibilities to meet the needs of local communities: employers and learners
Changing landscape
Profile funding for providers
Issue funding guidance for providers
New flexibilities to meet the needs of local communities: employers and learners
Changing landscape
Integrated AdultCareers Service• IACS will have a strong public brand and a
national and local footprint – next step
• Local delivery of information and advice a vital part of the service including closer working with JCP and Probation
• One phone number, one website and one high street brand (face- to face)
Face to face service
• Identification of personal goals and targets• Skills and Career assessment• Skills action plan agreed with the customer• Support for learning, career progression and
job search• Help in accessing skills accounts
Intensity and frequency of the service depends on the customer profile, needs, assessment of their situation and outcome needed
• Employability skills programme
• Response to redundancy
• Six month offer (work focused training)
• Young persons’ guarantee - routes into work
Programmes for the Unemployed
Employability Skills Programme
(ESP)•ESP aims to improve basic literacy/language (ESOL), numeracy and employability skills for JCP customers
•All JCP customers aged 18 and over may be referred to the programme if they have basic skills needs
•Provision is delivered on a full-time (>20 hours pw) for 15 weeks or part-time basis (< 16 hours pw) dependent on learner need and number of courses undertaken
•Fares, child-care and training allowances may be payable
•10 providers across 6 JCP districts
Response to Redundancy What it is
Short Length - 2 to 8 weeks full or part-time.
For - Adults 18+ under consultation of, or notice of
redundancy, recently redundant or long term
unemployed
•Links to labour market needs/current
vacancies
What it isn’t
Not necessarily a qualification
Not totally re-skilling
Long courses of a few hours per week
(eg 26 weeks x 2 hours per week)
Six month offer: work focused
training (FE providers)
What it is• Contributes to vocational qualification
at L2/L3
• Short length (eg 2-8 weeks)
• Intensive (eg 15 hours per week)
• Substantial impact on individual’s
skills
• Flexible delivery – monthly intakes
What it isn’t• Stand alone basic skills (literacy or
numeracy)
• Very short courses/tasters
• Long courses of a few hours per
week
(eg 26 weeks x 2 hours per week)
Routes into work• Young people aged 18-24, approaching 6 months’
unemployment• 9 sectors – retail, hospitality, leisure travel and
tourism, facilities management, security, contract centres, construction, logistics, health
• Pre-employment training of up to 8 weeks• Linked to existing vacancies• 11 providers across London
Young Persons’Guarantee
Link to Skills Account website
www.direct.gov.uk/skillsaccounts
Offender learning
Custody - OLASS
Kensington and Chelsea College delivering across nine London prisons, including HMP/YOI Isis
Community
Improving access to mainstream services JCP / ESF / next step