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?