building a smarter economic future the uk economic development conference 2009 7-8 october 2009...
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Building a Smarter Economic Future
The UK Economic Development Conference 2009
7-8 October 2009
Royal Bath Hotel, Bournemouth
ADAPT AND SURVIVE – SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE FOR CHANGING ECONOMIC
CONDITIONS
IED Conference
8th October 2009
Adapt and Survive
ROLE OF THE HOMES AND COMMUNITIES ACADEMY IN THE NATIONAL SKILLS AGENDA
SUPPORT FOR REGENERATION KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS IN THE RECESSION
The Academy’s New Role
External skills arm of the HCA
National team of 35, main base in Leeds - restructured to create skills advisers based in HCA regions
Changed business model to support HCA investment priorities
Targeting places that need the most help
Supporting and improving places
• Practical information
• New ideas, know-how and best practice
• Up-to-date skills
Delivery partners better equipped to withstand market conditions and deliver housing and regeneration programmes
IMPROVED PLACE-MAKING
Creating the HCA’s external hub
Leading the skills agenda
• Externally: unified approach to place-making skills
• Internally: improved skills and capability
• Tailored support to places in regions
• Improved leadership
• Dealing with downturn
Building the skills, knowledge and capacity of HCA’s delivery partners to execute successful housing and regeneration programmes
Our priorities 2009-11
Priority 3: Leading the skills agenda
Leading a skills action plan on behalf of Government to ensure unified approach to place-making skills across sector –launched by John Healey and Sir Bob Kerslake in June 2009
Leading co-ordinated approach within the HCA to improving skills and knowledge of staff and partners
Supporting agency’s work on apprenticeships and local employment programmes
Skills Action Plan – Better Skills for Better Places
Attract and Retain Key People
– Recruitment and Promotion of the Sector – CIC
– Progression Routes, CPD and Retention – HCA Academy
Generic and Emerging Skills
– Leadership – IDeA
– Community Cohesion and Empowerment – CIH
– Climate Change - CABE
Technical and Specialist Skills
– Planning Skills – RTPI
– Urban Design and Greenspace Skills – CABE
– Skills for Changing Economic Markets – HCA Academy
Key Skills and Knowledge Issues in the Recession
New Initiatives/New System
Development Economics
Partnership
Risk Sharing
Resource Sharing
What works!
Academy Skills for Changing Economic Markets Programme
KNOWLEDGE SHARING
Debate Place – October
http://showcase.hcaacademy.co.uk/debate
Diagnostic Support
Support for the Single Conversation
Review of Development Economics Training (SKAP Group overview)
Academy Skills for Changing Economic Markets Programme
SKILLS AND CAPACITY BUILDING
Strategic Partnership with BURA
– Housing and Regeneration – skills transfer
– Partnership and Risk Sharing
– Development Economics
Place Based Support – commissioned by Regional Directors
Support programme for Local Delivery Vehicless in mksm – ‘skills bank’
Downturn, Upturn – same old story, or whole new game?
We are doing things differently We need to share experience about what is working and what is not We need to understand one another better, share expertise Some skills are even more important now – Leadership, Partnership,
Negotiation, Delivery But these are not necessarily new skills We need to keep these skills for the good times as well – they help
us to create quality, sustainable places Some places never really come out of recession Growth has its challenges