mindset 2000 ltdslide 1 train to gain provider support programme january 2008 capacity development

Mindset 2000 Ltd Slide 1

Train to Gain Provider Support Programme

January 2008

Capacity development


Big bucks


What we’ll cover

• Policy context

• LSC 2008/09 – 2010/11

• Commissioning and funding

• Raising quality

• Regional plan

• The future . . .


Policy context


Vision

Economic progress

• Higher productivity and improved overall economic performance

• Ability to compete effectively in the global economy on the basis of high skills, high value-added business strategies

Social justice

• Social mobility – education and skills help each person determine their life chances

• Every person has the opportunity to realise individual potential, overcome disadvantage and achieve economic well-being


Perspective

Delivery

PSA

CSR 2007

2007-11

2011

2008-11


CSR 2007

• Sustainable growth and prosperity

• Fairness and opportunity for all

• Stronger communities and a better quality of life

• A more secure, fair and environmentally sustainable world


PSA 2 – LSC lead/contribute

Young people

• Raise the educational achievement of all children and young people

• Narrow the gap between children from low income and disadvantaged backgrounds and their peers

Adults

• Improve the skills of the population, as a step towards ensuring a world-class skills base by 2020


Delivery

Regional Development

Agencies

Sector Skills Councils

Local authorities

Learning and Skills Council

PSA 2


LSC 2008/09 – 2010/11


Priorities

Demand

Supply


Raise demand – young people

• Improve offer

– Choice, flexibility, personalisation

• Increase places

• Raise achievement

• Support progression

• Target NEETs

• Provide extra financial support


Raise demand – adults

• Build ownership

– Skills Accounts

• Promote Train to Gain

• Encourage people into learning

– Careers service

– Joined up skills and employment

• Target excluded people

• Provide extra financial support

• Promote FE


Raise demand – employers

• Enhance and broaden Train to Gain

– Integrate 19+ Apprenticeships

– Extend Level 3 offer

– Develop Local Employment Partnerships

• Develop culture of investment in training

– Skills Pledge

• Make qualifications more attractive

• Target low-skilled employees

– Unions

• Run skills campaign


Transformation?


Transforming FE - levers

• Money– Funding aligned to priorities

– Increased fee income

• Performance management– Tighter standards

– Self regulation

• Removing barriers / bureaucracy– Commissioning

– Qualifications

• Market-making– Specialist provision, disadvantage


Transforming FE - incentives

• Investment

– Infrastructure

– Capacity

• Promotion

– Reputation

• Reward (high performing providers)

– Expansion

– Longer contracts


Deliver targets – better how?

• Better skills

– Participation

– Achievement

• Better jobs

– Employability

– Employment outcomes

• Better lives

– Developmental learning

– Supporting the most disadvantaged


Commissioning and funding


Commissioning

• Negotiated commissioning – existing providers

– Most 14-19

– Most adult learner-responsive

– Most employer-responsive

• Open and competitive tendering – existing and new providers

– Gaps in provision or niche provision

– Train to Gain

– Offender learning and skills (2009)

– ESF


14-19 funds


14-19 participation


14-19 summary

• Increase overall participation

– Despite demographic decline

• Maintain learner numbers in school sixth forms and colleges

• Increase Apprenticeship places by 18 percent

• Support the next steps in the 14–19 reforms

• Provide a basic funding rates increase of 2.1 percent in 2008/09

• Ensure that institutions have reasonable stability to manage change over the period


Adult funds


Employer-responsive participation


Employer-responsive summary

• Support the rapid expansion of Train to Gain, to a total value of over £1 billion

• Widen the scope of TTG to include Level 3 and higher-level Skills partnerships

• Increase 19–25 Apprenticeships by 20,000

• Allocate £30 million for Apprenticeships for people aged 25 (2008/09)

• Expand the National Employer Service


Funding pattern


Regional plan


Where the money will go


Adult budgets – by level


Growth

• TTG

– 24,750 starts, up from 14,560 in 2007/08

• Apprenticeships

– Increase in 16-18 Apprenticeships by 120 to 13,890

– Increase in 19-25 Apprenticeships by 600 to 10,290

– Increase in priority groups of learners in Adult Apprenticeships (25+) by 500 to 1,000


Priority groups

• Young people who are not in education, employment or training

• People with no or low skills

• Lone parents

• People on benefits

• People who live in deprived neighbourhoods;

• People who face issues of social exclusion e.g. offenders


Participation of priority groups

People who need most support and encouragement to engage with, and remain in, learning

• Foundation Learning Tier

• Maintain investment in provision

– Learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities

– Adult safeguarded learning (PCDL)

– ESOL


Priority sectors – RES

• Chemicals and pharmaceuticals

• Automotive

• Defence and marine

• Food and drink

• Energy

• Knowledge intensive business services

• Health and social care

• Tourism and hospitality

• Commercial creative


Other priority sectors

• Underpinning sectors – important in terms of employment

– Construction, transport and retail

• Public sector

– Strategic Health Authority

– Local authorities

• Sectors identified at sub-regional level

– e.g. Tees Valley City Region


Analysis


The future


Government . . . how will they work things out?

DCSF

DWP

DIUS

Young people’s education, training and well-being

Education and training of adults, innovation and research

Employment, welfare and benefits, retirement and equality


Young people – the known

16-19

FE and sixth forms

Work-based learningLocal authorities

Responsible for volume, pattern and range of

provision in each area

Transfer from LSC in 2011


Skills – the unknown

Sector Skills Councils

Commission for Skills and Employment

Regional Development

Agencies

Devolved government and

city regions

Higher Education

H[and F?]EFCE


Employment – another unknown

• Employability

• Skills

• Sustainable employment


Your future?

mindset 2000 ltdslide 1 train to gain provider support programme january 2008 capacity development

Documents

fe slide

disadvantage slide

skills campaign slide

capacity development

economic wellbeing slide

policy context slide

sustainable world slide

extra financial support