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This program aims to raise quality, commissioning, and funding in alignment with key policies and goals for social justice and economic progress. The focus is on improving skills, enhancing productivity, and promoting inclusivity in education and training to support individual potential and economic well-being.
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Capacity development Train to Gain Provider Support Programme January 2008
What we’ll cover • Policy context • LSC 2008/09 – 2010/11 • Commissioning and funding • Raising quality • Regional plan • The future . . .
Vision Economic progress • Higher productivity and improved overall economic performance • Ability to compete effectively in the global economy on the basis of high skills, high value-added business strategies Social justice • Social mobility – education and skills help each person determine their life chances • Every person has the opportunity to realise individual potential, overcome disadvantage and achieve economic well-being
Perspective 2007-11 CSR 2007 2011 PSA 2008-11 Delivery
CSR 2007 • Sustainable growth and prosperity • Fairness and opportunity for all • Stronger communities and a better quality of life • A more secure, fair and environmentally sustainable world
PSA 2 – LSC lead/contribute Young people • Raise the educational achievement of all children and young people • Narrow the gap between children from low income and disadvantaged backgrounds and their peers Adults • Improve the skills of the population, as a step towards ensuring a world-class skills base by 2020
Delivery Sector Skills Councils Learning and Skills Council PSA 2 Regional Development Agencies Local authorities
Priorities Demand Supply
Raise demand – young people • Improve offer • Choice, flexibility, personalisation • Increase places • Raise achievement • Support progression • Target NEETs • Provide extra financial support
Raise demand – adults • Build ownership • Skills Accounts • Promote Train to Gain • Encourage people into learning • Careers service • Joined up skills and employment • Target excluded people • Provide extra financial support • Promote FE
Raise demand – employers • Enhance and broaden Train to Gain • Integrate 19+ Apprenticeships • Extend Level 3 offer • Develop Local Employment Partnerships • Develop culture of investment in training • Skills Pledge • Make qualifications more attractive • Target low-skilled employees • Unions • Run skills campaign
Transforming FE - levers • Money • Funding aligned to priorities • Increased fee income • Performance management • Tighter standards • Self regulation • Removing barriers / bureaucracy • Commissioning • Qualifications • Market-making • Specialist provision, disadvantage
Transforming FE - incentives • Investment • Infrastructure • Capacity • Promotion • Reputation • Reward (high performing providers) • Expansion • Longer contracts
Deliver targets – better how? • Better skills • Participation • Achievement • Better jobs • Employability • Employment outcomes • Better lives • Developmental learning • Supporting the most disadvantaged
Commissioning • Negotiated commissioning – existing providers • Most 14-19 • Most adult learner-responsive • Most employer-responsive • Open and competitive tendering – existing and new providers • Gaps in provision or niche provision • Train to Gain • Offender learning and skills (2009) • ESF
14-19 summary • Increase overall participation • Despite demographic decline • Maintain learner numbers in school sixth forms and colleges • Increase Apprenticeship places by 18 percent • Support the next steps in the 14–19 reforms • Provide a basic funding rates increase of 2.1 percent in 2008/09 • Ensure that institutions have reasonable stability to manage change over the period
Employer-responsive summary • Support the rapid expansion of Train to Gain, to a total value of over £1 billion • Widen the scope of TTG to include Level 3 and higher-level Skills partnerships • Increase 19–25 Apprenticeships by 20,000 • Allocate £30 million for Apprenticeships for people aged 25 (2008/09) • Expand the National Employer Service
Growth • TTG • 24,750 starts, up from 14,560 in 2007/08 • Apprenticeships • Increase in 16-18 Apprenticeships by 120 to 13,890 • Increase in 19-25 Apprenticeships by 600 to 10,290 • Increase in priority groups of learners in Adult Apprenticeships (25+) by 500 to 1,000
Priority groups • Young people who are not in education, employment or training • People with no or low skills • Lone parents • People on benefits • People who live in deprived neighbourhoods; • People who face issues of social exclusion e.g. offenders
Participation of priority groups People who need most support and encouragement to engage with, and remain in, learning • Foundation Learning Tier • Maintain investment in provision • Learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities • Adult safeguarded learning (PCDL) • ESOL
Priority sectors – RES • Chemicals and pharmaceuticals • Automotive • Defence and marine • Food and drink • Energy • Knowledge intensive business services • Health and social care • Tourism and hospitality • Commercial creative
Other priority sectors • Underpinning sectors – important in terms of employment • Construction, transport and retail • Public sector • Strategic Health Authority • Local authorities • Sectors identified at sub-regional level • e.g. Tees Valley City Region
Government . . . how will they work things out? Young people’s education, training and well-being DCSF DIUS Education and training of adults, innovation and research Employment, welfare and benefits, retirement and equality DWP
Young people – the known Transfer from LSC in 2011 16-19 FE and sixth forms Work-based learning Local authorities Responsible for volume, pattern and range of provision in each area
Skills – the unknown Sector Skills Councils Regional Development Agencies Commission for Skills and Employment Devolved government and city regions Higher Education H[and F?]EFCE
Employment – another unknown • Employability • Skills • Sustainable employment
