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Liverpool City Region and The Work Programme. Investor Strategic Information Event Friday 1 October 2010. Welcome. Sheena Ramsey Chief Executive Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council. City Region Vision and Ambition.
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Liverpool City Region and The Work Programme Investor Strategic Information Event Friday 1 October 2010
Welcome Sheena Ramsey Chief Executive Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council
City Region Vision and Ambition ‘to establish our status as a thriving international City Region by 2030’ To achieve this we will need to: • Accelerate growth and narrow productivity gap with the rest of UK • Reduce worklessness across the Liverpool City Region
Liverpool City Region: Key Facts • Population of 1.5 million • Forms core of wider economic zone of influence of over 2 million people • GVA of £19bn • 539,000 jobs • 49,000 businesses
Delivering a step change • Against this backdrop we now need to deliver a step change in the performance of the Liverpool City Region economy focusing on: -Economy -Employment & Skills -Housing -Transport • Underpinned by 4 transformational actions
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Transform, Compete, ThriveLiverpool City Region Employment and Skills Strategy Sue Jarvis Service Director: City Region, Employment and Skills Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council
To reach the national average 46,000 less people without any qualifications 26,400 more people with a level 2 qualification (equivalent to 5 GCSEs) 43,800 more people with a level 4 qualification (equivalent to a Degree) To meet the Government’s 80% employment rate we would need to move an additional 120,000 people into work
Why we need a strategy • To drive a step change in performance in the employment and skills system • To provide a unifying framework for partners to address our challenges, opportunities and ambition • To achieve a consensus on strategic priorities and the allocation of future funds • To facilitate greater employer engagement, influence and leadership • To influence the national and regional policy agenda
The building blocks • The vision and aims of our Multi Area Agreement • A comprehensive review of the evidence base • Consultation with employers, stakeholders and service users to identify shared priorities • Changes to policies and institutions • Greater focus on Apprenticeships • Increasing provider freedom • Market-based funding models • Severe constraints on public sector budgets
Employment and skills issues • Not enough jobs and not enough high value jobs • Skills/qualification levels rising but job opportunities declining • Skills/qualification gaps with England narrowed but still remain • Persistently high NEET and rising long term youth unemployment • Persistent large gaps in worklessness rates and deprivation against national benchmarks • Persistent concerns that the system is too complicated for individuals and employers
The strategy • Flows from the vision and strategic aims described in the MAA, which we intend to meet by 2030 • Introduces step change aspirations for employment and skills by 2020 • Puts in place a small number of strategic objectives which we will meet by 2015 • Develops a series of strategic projects delivered over the period 2010 up to 2015 to drive forward the strategy
The strategic objectives • Investing to support employer skill needs • Empower employers to drive skills and productivity improvements • Empower local people to make informed learning, job and career choices • Build clear and effective career pathway for 14-24 year olds • Transform services impacting on employment rates for disadvantaged groups and areas • Simplify employment and skills system
Successful implementation requires • Simplification – joining up employment and skills services for employers and individuals • Greater effectiveness and value for money by integrating employment and skills with other service areas e.g. housing providers, health • Prioritisation and implementation of projects with sufficient scale to make a major impact • Equality of opportunity for all learner groups • A more co-ordinated approachto commissioning and influencing service delivery • Transparency in performance management
Thestrategic projects • An integrated information, advice and guidance services • A City Region Apprenticeship strategy • A substantial and co-ordinated effort to increase higher-level skills use in SMEs • A “total place” approach to jobs and skills • Integrated employment and skills services for key employer investments and sectors
The commissioning framework • A single point of reference for commissioning all employment and skills activity • Builds on a shared understanding of needs and priorities • Will influence the spend of public sector funding agencies and key funding streams • A clear distinction between commissioning at city region level and delivery which will be for the most part local • Employment and Skills Board responsible for overseeing its implementation
Our 10 ‘Asks’ from the Work Programme • Help us deliver our Employment and Skills Strategy • Work closely and openly with ESB to align activity, share intelligence and performance management information • Ensure services are shaped by local businesses - in particular activity arising from any future LEP • Create supply chains that build upon existing high performing services and maintain to an equitable level • Work with us to ensure that our data capture systems are compatible
Our 10 ‘Asks’ from the Work Programme (cont) • Work with us to identify how services and assets we have historically resourced can support the Work Programme • Work with us to build the capacity of local service providers, particularly third sector organisations • Support the simplification of services to businesses and residents • Practical support to encourage the use of public and private procurement as a vehicle to improve the job and skill prospects of local people. • A collaborative approach to evaluation focussed on what works and the achievement of lasting long term impact
Next Steps • Pre-Framework Announcement • Liverpool City Region Prospectus • Website • Event today • Post Framework Announcement • Detailed discussions with strategic partners • Contact: colin.geering@knowsley.gov.uk