Transcript Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership

Supporting the Food Industry with skills and innovation
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The Shifting Sands of the Skills
Agenda
• Employers at the helm of standards and funding
• The role of Local Enterprise Partnerships in economic
development and the Agri-food skills agenda
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The University of Lincoln
Established in 2001 now has a student
population of 11,722 and 1331 staff.
Top 50 University
The National Centre for Food Manufacturing
is a satellite campus situated in Holbeach, in the
heart of the largest concentration of Food
Manufacturing businesses in the UK.
Talent pipeline – Academy family
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NCFM in The College of
Science
College of
Science
National Centre
for Food
Manufacturing
School of Life
Sciences
School of
Chemistry
School of
Mathematics
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School of
Computer
Science
School of
Engineering
Lincoln Business School
School of
Pharmacy
NCFM – developing the industry’s
talent and supporting innovation
• Working with employers and partners (LEP, Sector Skills
Council, sector bodies) to raise skills and support innovation
• Specialising in part-time flexible courses for food industry
professionals, offering seamless progression:
– Functional Skills, Apprenticeships, Foundation Degrees, BSc (Honours)
in Food Manufacture, post graduate
• Supporting 2,500 employees from 300 businesses each year
• Help to engage young people with the sector
• University Academy Holbeach
– 11-18 strategic partnership - a pipeline for new talent
– Lincoln UTC (University Technical College)
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Opportunities – examples from one
recruitment website
Development
321
Quality Assurance
317
Engineering
165
Sales and
Marketing
107
Environmental
15
Supply Chain
90
Technical
501
Packaging
30
HR
19
Hygiene
48
Logistics
32
Operations
179
Planning
54
Production
279
• Quality Technician - £18k to £26k
• Quality/Technical Manager - £36k
to £65k
• Factory Manager - £55k to £75k
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• Multi-skilled Engineer -£35k-£38k
• Engineering Manager - £60k- £85k
• Logistics Manager - £40k to £60k
Supporting
innovation
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Industry - Microbiological Validation – (Various businesses)
Industry – Sensory Science – (Various businesses)
FSA – Effile Poultry Production and MSM (with FRPERC)
TSB – Assessing Quality in Mushrooms by Rapid Odour
Measurement (Monaghue Mushrooms, Potato Council, others )
TSB – FILMS Packaging innovation (Bakkavor, M&S, others)
TSB – Pdx Steam Infusion (Olympus Automation and partners)
ERDF - LCC - Sustain 2 – innovation and process improvement
in Lincolnshire’s food and engineering sectors (SME)
FP7 - PicknPack – process automation – Manchester University,
Marel and a consortium of European universities
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The role of Local Enterprise Partnerships
in the skills and innovation agenda –
drivers
• Radical government reform to accelerate growth –
placing local authorities and LEPs at the helm of
economic development (‘No Stone Unturned’ –
Heseltine report 2012)
• Devolution of central funding streams to the 39 LEPs
• Across LEP collaboration encouraged
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Greater Lincolnshire Local
Enterprise Partnership (GLLEP)
Aim: sustainable
economic growth
Partnership: Private and
public sector - industry
led
Strategy: Strategic
Economic Plan and
investment priorities
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The GLLEP’s key sectors for
investment
• Agri-food
• Manufacturing
• Visitor economy
Greater Lincolnshire produces/processes over 12% of the UK’s
food supply including more than 70% of its seafood and 25% of its
vegetables; the sector employs more than 68,000 people across the
supply chain with a diverse mix of businesses including Cranswick
Plc, Greencore, Moy Park, Walkers and Young’s Seafood
alongside a wide range of primary producers
(Source: GLLEP Strategic Economic Plan)
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Food Manufacturing in Greater
Lincolnshire –the greatest secret!
Almost every:
• Size of business - home to several international major
businesses, plus numerous middle sized and small businesses
• Type of produce – fish, meat, ready meals, fresh veg and fruit
• Type of processes – cooking, canning, freezing, chilling,
brewing and drinks manufacture, milling, confectionery
Home to:
• Brands – Princes, Tulip, Youngs, Kerry, Humdinger, McCains
• Own label – Bakkavor, Moy Park, Greencore, Produce World
• National and international food community - dynamic
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Agri-food sector plan
http://www.greaterlincolnshirelep.co.uk
Headline ambition ‘‘the greater Lincolnshire Agri-food sector will double its
contribution to the economy by 2033 through an
ambitious programme of investment in productive
capacity, skills and knowledge and drive to increase in
high value added sales to UK and export markets’’
Challenges:
• Infrastructure
• Access to research and innovation
• Skills, increasingly needed at higher levels
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Delivering the skills strategy Employment and Skills Board
• Employer led with broad representation
• Informs the LEP of skills priorities and gaps provides intelligence
• Seeks to implement solutions/lobby
• Covers the whole skills agenda, 14-19 education, adult
learning and workforce skills and school links
• LEP Food Board – aligning priorities
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Employment and Skills Board –
intelligence
GLEPP
Board
Food
Board
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Employment
& Skills
Board
Changes to Skills Funding
• Funding for adult skills increasingly being channelled
through the LEP (and skills capital) from the Skills
Funding Agency
• Competitive and largely SME focussed (at the
moment)
• Employment and Skills Board have a role in
influencing national calls – working with employers
and providers to ensure as much money as possible
comes into Lincolnshire
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What has the Employment and Skills
Board achieved – some examples
• Increased Apprenticeship uptake (bucking the national
trend)
• With JCP developed a ‘food industry’ pathway to help
the unemployed
• Secured £1.5 million of additional funding through for
the skills (Skills for the Lincolnshire Workforce
project)
• Championed ‘Have a go events’ and other activities
aimed at raising awareness of food industry careers
e.g. Boston College Catering students encouraged to
think about careers in the food industry
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Employment and Skills
Board – future role
• Working with the LEP and Food Board to produce a
sector skills plan for our Agri-food industry to address
known skills gaps, predict and plan for future need and
fuel the talent pipeline with a vigorous flow of bright
young people
• Aligning skills investment with a programme to secure
additional applied research projects for GLLEP Agrifood companies
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Strategies now in place to address
skills shortages, engage young people to feed
the talent pipeline and to build our applied
research capability
Transformational for the industry and the
county – aspiration for world class
AND EVERYONE WANTS TO WORK IN
A WORLD CLASS INDUSTRY………..
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Please can we be
your next generation
of food engineers,
technologists and
managers ……please,
please let me!
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