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OLASS 3 ITT ROADSHOW, MANCHESTER 22 nd October 2008 North West and Yorkshire & the Humber Regions Presented by Anne Gornall, LSC North West. Welcome. Purpose of this event. To explain the key themes, national and regional, underpinning the development of OLASS
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OLASS 3 ITT ROADSHOW, MANCHESTER 22nd October 2008 North West and Yorkshire & the Humber Regions Presented by Anne Gornall, LSC North West Welcome
Purpose of this event • To explain the key themes, national and regional, underpinning the development of OLASS • For the regions to brief prospective tendering organisations on their requirements for OLASS • To provide prospective tendering organisations with the opportunity to ask questions about the process and the ITT
Structure of this presentation • LSC priorities • Key issues for the regions
LSC Priorities • Young People • Raise the educational achievement of all children and young people • Narrow the gap in educational achievement between children from low income and disadvantaged backgrounds and their peers.
LSC Priorities • Adult Skills • Proportion of people of working age achieving functional literacy and numeracy • Proportion of working age adults qualified to at least a full Level 2 and 3 • Proportion of apprentices completing full framework • Joint target with DWP/ JCP to move more people into sustainable employment and progression
Key policies and strategies • Offenders must be part of strategies for the economically inactive • Leitch Review of Skills • Sub National Review of Economic Development and Regeneration • Welfare Reform – importance of integration of employment and skills (IES). IES Trials
Key Issues for Offenders • Effectiveness of partnership work and relationships • OLASS responds and develops with the wider reducing re-offending strategies • OLASS part of a joined up holistic approach • OLASS part of integrating employment and skills for offenders
Key Issues for Offenders • Currency of OLASS curriculum • Seamless transfer from custody to community and vice versa • Effective IAG • Effective data and performance management
Additional issues for Yorkshire & the Humber 03
Additional issues Yorkshire & the Humber • Use opportunities afforded by MIAP to transfer learner data quickly and accurately between prisons, probation and providers • Enhance OLASS by other targeted core LSC provision • With HoLS, build on inspection results to ensure the region retains a leading national position in the quality of its learning and skills.
Additional issues Yorkshire & the Humber • Work with establishments to deliver an integrated rehabilitation service where learning and skills is valued by the regime and the offender. • LSC funded provision supports the ambition of HoLS to develop as centres of excellence in learning and skills.
3 important points • Offenders are a key group in LSC’s Statement of Priorities • Increasing importance of the IES agenda and relevance to offenders • Effective partnership work