ann jones director: regional working learning and skills council lsc/rsps and the impact on delivery...
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Ann Jones Director: Regional WorkingLearning and Skills Council
LSC/RSPs and the Impact on Delivery
23 June 2005
• LSC Changing times
• RSPs Value Added
LSC/RSPs AND THE IMPACT ON DELIVERY
• Make learning truly demand-led• Ensure all 14-19 year olds have access to high
quality, relevant learning opportunities• Transform FE so that it attracts and stimulates
more business investment • Strengthen our role in economic development
so that we provide the skills needed to help individuals into employment
• Strengthen capacity to work effectively at regional level, particularly with RDAs and RSPs
• Improve the skills of workers who deliver public services.
LSC NATIONAL PRIORITIES
LSC FUNDING
2005-06 2006-07 2007-08
£9,322,026 £9,587,875 £10,056,907
LSC CHANGING TIMES
Plan-led funding:
• Funding the provider plan including linking budgets to provision
• Less micro-management, more strategic• Simpler calculation of funds• Variable costs addressed at provider level
(through factor), not at individual learner level• Use provider Management Information, ‘real time’
view
LSC CHANGING TIMES Skills and Employers:• Positioning FE at the heart of the business agenda
and skills strategy• Need to win the confidence of more employers• A greater focus on meeting employers’ needs• More staff with recent experience of business• More provision is delivered in the workplace • Strong vocational specialism(s) to match
local/regional employment pattern• More income generated from employers• FE seen to be accessible, flexible, value for money
solution to skills needs
NETP - the core of a demand-led approach to delivering training for employers of all kinds and offering:
• A ‘first stop shop’ for business development and skills needs
• Access to specialist help in identifying skills needs
• Bespoke flexible training programmes• Free training to enhance employability skills of
employees, including literacy and numeracy• A national service for large multi-site
employers.
LSC CHANGING TIMES
Consistent Regional Sector priorities identified as:
• Construction• Engineering• Health and Social Care• Retail• Manufacturing• Tourism
RSPs’ - SECTOR PRIORITIES
Foster Review of FE. Purpose to identify: • The distinctive contribution colleges make to the learning and skills market• Their long-contribution to economic development and social inclusion• Anything else that needs to happen to transform the sector
• Report in Autumn
LSC CHANGING TIMES
• Value Added
• Influencing planning and funding
• Measuring impact
REGIONAL SKILLS
PARTNERSHIPS
Overall RSPs should be:
‘the vehicle for ensuring that all the adult skills, business support, labour market and productivity services available at regional, local and sectoral level are mobilised to support regional priorities.’ (Source – RSP Prospectus)
•Roles and Responsibilities handout
RSPs ADDING VALUE
RSPs’ - COMMON PRIORITY
AREAS• Development of Leadership and Management Skills
• Providing a seamless brokerage service to meet the needs of employers
• Supporting individuals to enter the workforce and sustain employment, especially those most disadvantaged
• Increase the proportion of the workforce qualified to Level 3
• By 2010 – 2.25 million adults to achieve functional competence in literacy, language and numeracy
• Over 3 million to achieve first full Level 2 qualification
• When fully operational NETP to support, per year:
• 350,000 learners• 50,000 employers• 175,000 first full Level 2 qualifications
NATIONAL EMPLOYER TRAINING PROGRAMME
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Local LSC
Plans
Local LSC
Plans
Local LSC
Plans
Regional Priorities
Regional Economic Strategy
RSP Priorities
INFLUENCING PLANNING AND FUNDING
• Roles and responsibilities (adding value)• RSPs Performance against their own action
plan• Relationship management
• Possible area:
- public sector
RSPS MEASURING IMPACT
•LSC – Changing times
•RSPs:
- Vehicle for adding value to ‘all’ partner contributions- let them walk before they can run- powerful influence on skills planning and funding
LSC/RSPs AND IMPACT ON DELIVERY
Ann Jones Director: Regional WorkingLearning and Skills Council
LSC/RSPs and the Impact on Delivery
23 June 2005