moving forward - challenges for the west midlands - john lee of government office for the west...
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Presentation by John Lee, Economic Inclusion Panel co-ordinator, on how the UK's West Midlands region is responding to the challenges of unemployment, and opportunities for moving forward. This presentation was given at a workshop held at the West Midlands Regional Observatory's Annual Conference, 20th October 2009.TRANSCRIPT
- 1. Moving forward - Challenges for the Region WMRO Conference Tuesday 20 October 2009 John Lee Assistant Director Economic Inclusion Government Office West Midlands
- 2. Tackling Worklessness: 5 Key Challenges
- 1. Understanding the shape of the Economy
- 2. Creating sustainable jobs in growth sectors
- 3. Driving the Workforce Planning Agenda
- 4. Harnessing Public Sector buying power
- 5. Nailing Best Practice - the Holy Grail!
- 3. Understanding the shape of the Economy
- What will it look like?
- What are the Growth Sectors?
- Who is doing this work?
- Do we need more data and analysis?
- Or do we need actions?
- 4. Creating sustainable jobs in growth sectors
- 3 Trillion Global Market
- Higher Entry Level Skills
- Creating Supply Chains
- A West Midlands Green New Deal
- Green Technology School Challenges/Prizes
- 5. Creating sustainable jobs in our own back yard
- 1b Future Jobs Fund
- 11m C2O
- What happens in March
- 2010?
- A return to JSA
- The prospect of sustainable employment
- 6. Driving the Workforce Planning Agenda
- Demographic Change
- Ageing Society
- Apprenticeships
- Diplomas
- Graduate Internships
- Work Experience
- Reversing the upward drift in job entry level requirements
- 7. Nailing Best Practice - The Holy Grail
- National Programmes
- Local Flexibilities
- Demonstration Projects
- Pilots
- C20
- Economic Assessments
- Work and Skills Plans
- But will the JSIB prove to be the Round Table?
- 8. Harnessing Public Sector Buying Power
- UK: 175 Billion Annually
- Region: Circa 16 Billion
- Goal: 10% of contracts include Jobs and Skills requirements = 1.6 Billion
- Assumption: 2-4 jobs created per 1 million of procurement
- Outcome: Access to an additional 3,200 to 6,400 jobs every year
- The potential is ten-fold
- 9. The strategic consideration of jobs and skills requirements
in the end-to-end public procurement process
- Whereby public sector organisations
- deliberately adopt a default
- position, which requires clauses
- pertaining to jobs and skills
- requirements to be routinely
- considered for their relevance to all
- stages of the commissioning and
- procurement process and each and
- every procurement exercise
- undertaken (and measure, on an
- ongoing basis, the percentage of
- contracts and the proportion of
- expenditure to which such clauses
- apply, in addition to tracking outputs and
- outcomes).