Integrating Welfare to Work & Skills Locally: Doing what it says on the tin

Jerry Baker, COO, EmploymentMushall Khan, Group Change ManagerKim Pattison, Head of External Relations

Company overview

•esg. formed in 2007

•Bringing together a history of employment related and

skills provision

•Delivering to Government departments for over 20 years

including DWP and BIS

Company overview

Skills Employment

Train to GainPLAApprenticeships

NDDPIAPND for Lone ParentsEZJSPSC

Policy contextWhy?

•New skills essential for support into employment and sustainability

•History of calls for integrated skills and employment

•Government announcement to ‘abolish Leitch’

•2.67m people unemployed in the UK

•1.04m < 18 years old

•2.57m people claiming Employment Support Allowance/Incapacity Benefit

Work programme and Apprenticeships

Policy contextSome progression?

•Adult Skills Budget – 2.5% to be spent on improved

provision to unemployed learners – work related

skills.

•Single Unit ‘bite-sized’ courses to help make

unemployed people more ‘marketable’

•Still a complex maze of funding and benefit rules

apply around provision

•Policy continues to change and develop

Company overview

Skills Employment

Work programme

•Providers need to attract funding through other sources•Providers expected to stitch things together•Didn’t happen

•Work Programme budget limited•Programme designed without skills integration•Work Programme SHOULD be the core programme on which other funding hangs, a combination of all funding to unemployed people

A Work Programme that truly works – including skills development – couldn’t be done without SFA funding

Current situation

Source: AELP/LSIS Provider Guide to Delivering Adult Skills Provision to the Unemployed

Smart ‘Alec’ moment

Company overview

Timeframe

Making it happen – The Journey

•Launch of project - August 2011•Employability Skills units Level 1 & 2• Vocational units:

• Childcare, Health & Social Care• Retail, Customer Service, Business Administration, • Call Centre, Hospitality• Leisure, travel & Tourism, • Hair

•People, product, process

Making it happen – People, Product, Process

•Customers

•Work Programme….aspirations

•Employers…..demand•Teaching

•Vocational v Generic•Linking into skills division•Part of assessor caseloads•Classroom delivery

•Support staff

Making it happen – People, Product, Process

•Awarding body

•Short sharp delivery

•Resource packs

•Range of levels

•Employability skills units

•Vocational units

Making it happen – People, Product, Process

• Paper, paper and more paper!!

•Fit for purpose

•Sign up

•Review

•Verification

•Reports

•Tight turnaround

•Who???

What next?

•Jan to May 2012: 4212 units

•Pilot …. roll out

•Functional skills

•More single units

•Vocational routeways

•Sector based academies

•Pre apprenticeship training

Demand

Workforce Jobs by Sector UK (NOMIS)Source: AELP/LSIS Provider Guide to Delivering Adult Skills Provision to the Unemployed

And lest we forget…

Company overview

Skills and Employment = Sustainability

Questions?