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LSC As Market Makers Presented to: National Council Date: December 2006 By: Rob Wye. Welcome. The learning and skills market. The whole market – whether employer, individual and state funded Different markets for 14-19, adults and employers

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  1. LSC As Market Makers Presented to: National Council Date: December 2006 By: Rob Wye Welcome

  2. The learning and skills market • The whole market – whether employer, individual and state funded • Different markets for 14-19, adults and employers • Demand–led – driven by individual and employer choice • Driven by college and provider excellence, innovation, responsiveness and relevance • Greater non-LSC income

  3. The LSC role • Understanding demand, need and supply • Understanding the gaps • Raising awareness of benefits – building a “hunger for learning and skills” • Information, advice, guidance and brokerage • Provider-neutral • Eliminating poor quality • Encouraging new providers to enter (inc competitions) • Regulating the market (eg monopolies)

  4. Where the market will not provide... • Ensuring a full 14-19 offer in each area • Reaching hard to reach employers (eg Train to Gain) • Reaching hard to reach/vulnerable learners (eg Skills for Life, LLDD) • Reaching out to disadvantaged communities • Supporting selective capital investment and capacity building

  5. STRATEGIC COMMISSIONING Presented to: National Council Date: December 2006 By: David Cragg

  6. Principles • Alignment with national/regional priorities • Greater employer and learner choice • Increased responsiveness • Greater competition in the system • Improved quality • Minimum performance levels • Common performance management criteria • Provider neutral

  7. Policy Context/Rationale • Funding decisions linked to priorities and • standards • “No inadequate provision by 2008” - Introduction of • “notice to improve” • New economic mission for the FE system • Greater market principles applied • Meeting Leitch priorities, esp. integration of employment • and skills • Free up and create learning and skills markets • Choice – through government supported and full cost • learning

  8. Commissioning Framework • National - Annual Statement of Priorities • Setting out clear set of ‘rules for investment’ for colleges and providers • % adult budget committed to Adult Level 2, Skills for Life • Priority qualifications through SSAs • Protect priority areas (eg LLDD; PCDL) • Allow those who respond to work within the broad blocks, intervene in the market where they do not • Regional -Sector/occupational priorities through RSP • Determining mix and balance and growth priorities • Priority learners • Local – 14-19 plans with Local Authorities

  9. Light Touch Planning – Differentiated • Intervention in inverse proportion to success • Simplified system, removes need for micro-management • Development of strategic relationships • Encouraging collaboration between providers • Excellent providers only agree headline numbers • Deal robustly with poor quality and underperforming provision • Developing the market through demand-led system • Rewards for playing to strengths

  10. Opening Up the Market • New procurement strategy • Transparent yet sophisticated • Tendering for provision below minimum levels and to • meet gaps • Intelligent use of tendering • - Open • - Restricted • - Negotiated • Reflective of legal status – grants, grant in aid, contracts

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