learning partnerships the key to skilled workforces
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Learning Partnerships The key to Skilled Workforces. Liz Barnes, Dean Social Sciences & Law Ian Pepper, Principal Lecturer, Policing Mark Thornton, Inspector, Cleveland Police. The Leitch Review world class skills. Principles Shared responsibility. Employers, individuals & the government - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Learning PartnershipsThe key to Skilled Workforces
Liz Barnes, Dean Social Sciences & LawIan Pepper, Principal Lecturer, Policing
Mark Thornton, Inspector, Cleveland Police
The Leitch Review world class skills
• Principles• Shared responsibility. Employers, individuals & the
government• Build on existing structures
• Main recommendations• Increase employer engagement and investment in
skills• Increase employer investment in level 3 & 4 … Improve engagement between employers &
universities … Increase focus on level 5 and above skills
Targets & Challenges
• More than 70% of the 2020 working population are already over the age of 16
• Achieving world class skills requires exceeding 40% of adult population qualified to level 4 and above
• In 2005 29% were at this level• Changing targets away from the focus on young
people aged 18-30 will transform the incentives of HE providers to work with employers
The Police
• Minimum level qualification
for police officer NVQ 3• 51 forces in GB recruiting approx.100-150
new recruits annually• 159,000 police officers• 70,000 civilian staff• 13,000 special constables• Up to 25,000 community support officers & wardens by 07/08 (National policing plan 05-08)
Partnership Working
• Foundation degree, IPLDP• Approximately 6,500 newly qualified officers/year
78,000 from 2008 to 2020
• CPD frameworks• 50% of existing officers qualified to level 4, 80,000
• Accreditation of existing training & education • Work-based learning• Integration & progression into UG & PG
programmes
Opportunities
• Specialist courses– Traffic– Forensic investigation– Custody suite training
• Leadership & Management• Basic training
– IPLDP– PCSO’s– Special constables
Programmes
• BSc (Hons) Investigative Studies• Foundation Degrees• University Certificates:
Police Community Support Officers
Special Constables
Potential Police and Community Support Officers
Examples of Teaching Methods
• Lectures • Seminars• IT workshops• Pre-learning material• Role Plays• Work based learning
Facilities to Assist Learning
Examples of Assessment Methods
• Examinations• Assignments• Work based reflective assignments• Portfolios of evidence• Professional Development Portfolio/Student
Officer Learning and Assessment Portfolio• National Occupational Standards• Completion of professional skills
Challenges
• Meeting of cultures• Building a mixed police training and academic
team• Developing officers academic ability• Language and terminology
Suspended or not!• Administrative issues
• North East Force• 4 BCU’s• Mixture of Urban and Rural
Policing• Akin to a Metropolitan Force• 1727 Police officer’s• 142 PCSO’s• 179 Special Constables• 705 members of Police Staff
Who are Cleveland Police?
What are we about?
• Chief Constable’s vision:• “By 2010 to be at the Forefront of Modern
Policing….responding to the real needs of the communities we serve.”
• PUTTING PEOPLE FIRST• People• Problem Solving• Partnerships• Professionalism
How can we Professionalise the Service?
• Investment and Support in our Staff
• Give our staff the skills and equipment they need and the public deserve
• Change our traditional practices in terms of “Training” our staff
The Benefits of Working with the University of Teesside
• Immediate Partnership Focus• Local• New officers being challenged
in:
- Academic Thinking
- Greater Self Reflection
- Immediate Focus on Communities
Challenges
• Inspecting bodies – HMIC, ALI.
• Breaking with tradition (Centrex)
• District Commanders
• Something NEW!!! (Change)
• Cultural change
Benefits:
• Recruitment Profile• Community
Placements• Academic Investment• Professional officers• Increased
performance
References
• Leitch, S., Review of Skills, Prosperity for all in the global economy – world class skills. Dec. 2006
• National Policing Plan 2005-08, Safer stronger communities. Nov. 2004