Shaping up for LEP Contracts

©West of England Rural Network 2013

Shaping up for Local Enterprise

Partnership Contracts

Chris Head

West of England Rural Network

13th February 2014

(An overview of the LEP and European Union investment

potential & your organisations part in it......)

Fund It Workshop


Agenda

• Understanding of the role of the LEP

• What’s going to be important for the LEP

• What’s Social Inclusion (& Innovation) and why its important

• How you can get your organisation ready

• Making your organisation commissionable

• Working together but differently

• Follow up activities


Regions to Local Enterprise Partnerships

9 to 39

Regional structure until mid 2010 LEP structure from late 2010


http://www.westofenglandlep.co.uk/




Strategic Plans

Structural &

Investment

Fund

Strategy

[SIF]

EU

Structural

Funds City Deal

Strategic

Economic

Plan

[SEP]

Single

Local

Growth

Fund

West of England's Strategic Plan for Growth

Approx £59m

+ match over

6 years (from

2014) + Rural

£1.4m (from

2015)

Share of a

£2bn pot p/a

(divided by 39

LEPS) over 5

years

(from 2015)

Bristol City

Region Deal

(1st Wave)

£1bn pot over

30 years (from

2013)

Other Local

Plans &

Strategies

PLA

N

FU

ND

ING

Lo

cal D

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pm

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t Fra

mew

ork

s

& C

ore

Stra

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ies

Health

& W

ellb

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g S

trate

gie

s

Local Major

Transport

Projects

Travel West

£44.9m over

5 years (from

2015)

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/development-of-eu-structural-and-investment-fund-strategies-preliminary-guidance-to-local-enterprise-partnerships

https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/giving-more-power-back-to-cities-through-city-deals

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-publishes-response-to-lord-heseltine-report

http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/planning/planningsystem/localplans

https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/giving-more-power-back-to-cities-through-city-deals


The LEPs Economic Strategy


Business

Support &

SME

Place &

Infrastructure People & Skills

Inward

Investment

Cross Sectoral

Interventions

High Tech

Industries

Low Carbon

Aerospace &

Advanced

Engineering

Creative &

Digital

Professional &

Legal Services

Project 1a Project 1

Project 2

Project 3

Project 4

Pri

ori

ty S

ect

ors

Drivers of Growth

Interventions Matrix


EU Thematic Objective

1. Innovation

2. ICT

3. SME

Competitiveness

4. Low Carbon

5. Climate Change

Adaptation

6. Environmental

Protection

7. Sustainable

Transport

8. Employment

9. Social Inclusion

10.Skills


Social Inclusion

• Improving employability

• Promoting active inclusion and combating

discrimination

• Outreach activities and access to locally

provided services.

Social inclusion and combating poverty is

defined as provision for those beneficiaries

furthest away from the labour market.


Social Inclusion

In addition, provision can assist in;

• Targeting groups

• Health and Wellbeing

• Improving educational attainment

• Improving family, parenting and

relationship intervention and access to

flexible and affordable childcare

• Homelessness, learning difficulties, life

skills and disabilities


Social Inclusion

Now included in SIF

•£3m LEP + £3m match over six years

•Integrated strand

•BIG Lottery opt-in

•Bespoke design

•Targeted delivery

•Pathways to economic activity


Barriers to work

Activities

&

services

Information

Advice

Guidance

(IAG)

VCSE

interventions

Outcomes

Destinations

Skills (formal

& informal)

Employment steps

towards

employment

Breaking down barriers to work


Social Innovation – why now?

• Identification of new/unmet/inadequately

met social needs;

• Development of new solutions in response to

these social needs;

• Evaluation of the effectiveness of new

solutions in meeting social needs;

• Scaling up of effective social innovations.

Social innovation describes the entire process by

which new responses to social needs are developed

in order to deliver better social outcomes.


Social innovation approaches are:

• Open rather than closed when it comes to knowledge-

sharing and the ownership of knowledge;

• Multi-disciplinary and more integrated to problem

solving than the single department or single

profession solutions of the past;

• Participative and empowering of citizens and users

rather than ‘top down’ and expert-led.

• Demand-led rather than supply-driven;

• Tailored rather than mass-produced, as most solutions

have to be adapted to local circumstances and

personalised to individuals.


Managing

Authorities

Ou

tpu

ts

Job

s, g

row

th, G

VA

,

skills

EU Structural & Investment Fund

Growth Programme

Delivery Arrangements

Contractual

relationship

Co-financing

Organisations

Beneficiaries

Local

HMG

Teams

Delivery organisations

DCLG

DEFRA

DWP

Local Enterprise

Partnership

Projects


West of England Voluntary Sector

Infrastructure group


Why a ‘Delivery organisation’?

• Need for efficient/effective

commissioning

• Managing fewer contracts

• Accountability/risk/compliance

• Economies of scale vs local representation

• Using Social Value Act

• Working in partnership

• Working as a Consortium


Start thinking about;

• What are the needs and opportunities in

your areas?

• What does your group already undertake?

• How could your group deliver the

objectives in the future?

• What would be the barriers to delivering

these objectives?

• Is your organisation commissionable?

Shaping up for LEP Contracts

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