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NHS European Office Accessing EU structural funding Michael Wood, European Policy Manager . 14 th August . What we will discuss. Brief background to EU structural funds Top priorities for promoting employment and supporting labour mobility; social inclusion; and skills - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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NHS European Office Accessing EU structural fundingMichael Wood, European Policy Manager
14th August
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What we will discuss
• Brief background to EU structural funds
• Top priorities for promoting employment and supporting labour mobility; social inclusion; and skills
• The kinds of activities it can support
• The timetable
• What should LETBs do next
• Useful reading
• Any questions
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European Structural & Investment Funds:
Opportunities for LETBS
Wednesday 14th August 2013
Kevin Richardson
Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
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Quick overview of EU SIF Covers European Regional Development Funds (ERDF)
and European Social Funds (ESF) - €6bn across England from 2014-2020
Supports economic and social development projects – differ from other EU funds in that administered at national level
Funds to be used at a local level to increase their combined impact alongside other local public and private investments
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Top Priorities • access to employment for job-seekers and inactive people,
including local employment initiatives and support for labour mobility;
• sustainable integration of young people into the labour market, in particular those not in employment, education or training
• active inclusion in particular with a view to improving employability
• enhancing access to lifelong learning, upgrading the skills and competences of the workforce and increasing the labour market relevance of education and training systems; including improving the quality of vocational education and training and the establishment and development of work-based learning and apprenticeship schemes
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Some examples of eligible activities (1) • Providing additional or more intensive support to help people to
move towards work, enter work (including self-employment), and to progress in work
• Additional and innovative approaches to pre-employment training.
• Additional support for long-term unemployed people, including those who have left the Work Programme, and including new approaches to work experience and training.
• Providing additional support to specific target groups such as people with disabilities or health barriers (including mental health issues), people with caring responsibilities, lone parents, ethnic minorities, ex-service personnel, ex-offenders and those from households with inter-generational worklessness.
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Some examples of eligible activities (2)
• Reducing the number of young people not in employment, education, or training, and those at risk of disengaging (including through engagement and preparation activities, access to apprenticeships, and personal coaching).
• Skills support for apprenticeships and traineeships (but not direct funding of training or wage costs) including improvements to the recruitment, assessment and facilities for training.
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Some examples of eligible activities (3)
• Support for intermediate, technical and high level vocational provision for the unemployed and for career progression.
• Supporting low skilled people in low paid work to help them progress.
• Support for intermediate, technical and higher level skills for specific industries for industries and sectors identified as driving growth in local economies in support of other relevant thematic objectives.
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Timetable 7th October – LEPs send first draft Investment
Strategies; to include a) allocation of cash by theme b) indicative types of activity and c) approach to collaboration across boundaries
End Jan ’14 LEPs submit final drafts for approval; likely to include specific proposals for projects
Summer ’14 – programme opens and projects formally appraised, offer letters issued and spend starts
Note. LEP Investment Strategies will change through time; process yet to be identified
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What should LETBs do next? Talk to LEPs !! – be part of local consultative process
Talk to AHSNs !! – they should already be talking to LEPs, work out how you can both develop bids
Identify potential scale & scope of possible activities
Make clear basis for collaboration across LEP boundaries
Build / share? EU funding expertise
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Useful reading• European Commission guide to Social Innovation –
February 2013• Government’s preliminary guidance to Local Enterpri
se Partnerships – April 2013
• NHS European Office briefing – June 2013• LEP to LETB allocations – June 2013• Supplementary guidance to LEPs – July 2013• Framework of European Growth Programme prioritie
s, background analysis – July 2013
• Individual LEP websites• The LEP Network interactive map
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Any Questions?
• Keep in touch as you build and establish your relationships with LEPs..........
[email protected] 07990 787999
[email protected] 07872 604109