Transcript Welcome Marches LEP Wider Group Event EU Funding Strategy

Welcome
Marches LEP - Wider Group Event
EU Structural and Investment Fund
Growth Programme
Social Inclusion
Tuesday 14th January 2014
Craven Arms Community Centre
Today’s Agenda
Introduction
Alex Fitzpatrick
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Welcome
Housekeeping
Background
Work Completed To Date
Overarching view of LEP and role of VCS
Fiona Fortune
European Structural and Investment
Funds Strategy 2014 - 2020
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Radical change in how EU funding is managed in England
LEPs as oppose to regional bodies
ERDF, ESF And EARFD all included
UK Government will remain Managing Authority
UK Government will sign off Operational Plan with European
Commission
• National Opt-ins agreed with Government to provide match – LEPs
will agree if they want to Opt-in
• EU Investment Strategies developed in line with guidance
• LEP Board to sign off, UK Government will agree
Management Arrangements
Managing Authority – UK Government
Opt-ins
Marches LEP
Strategic
Activity 1
Strategic
Activity 2
Strategic
Activity 3
Strategic
Activity 4
Strategic
Activity 5
Strategic Activity 1 – Enhancing Competitiveness, Research and Innovation and Enable
Technology
Strategic Activity 2 – Supporting the Shift Towards a Low Carbon Economy
Strategic Activity 3 – Supporting the Environment
Strategic Activity 4 – Employment and Skills
Strategic Activity 5 – Social Inclusion
Voluntary and Community Sector
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VCS Leading development of Strategic Activity 5 – Social Inclusion
VCS Mini-group established
VCS wider stakeholder events to broaden input
Social inclusion also in other Strategic Priorities
VCS will be represented in the Marches LEP governance
Equality a cross cutting theme, with sustainability
Positive feedback on Marches collaborative approach with sector
Value of the Sector and
Evidence Base of Need
Bridget Cameron
Peridot Associates LTD
Evidence of Need
Highlights where social inclusions issues exist across the Marches
LEP area.
This will support work to design service approaches and delivery
mechanisms to meet identified need.
2000 emails to organisations inviting them to contribute to the
evidence base;
150 phone calls to talk to individuals about their work in the
Marches;
Received 61 questionnaire returns.
Themes without responses
The themes without responses are:
• Adults in residential care
• Asylum seekers
• Gypsies and Travellers
• Children in Care
• Children subject to a Child Protection Plan
• Teenage Parents
Emergent Trends
• Local authorities are reducing funding within all aspects of service
delivery. The impact of this on the voluntary and community
sector.
• Lower level need support users are having to be ‘dropped’ by
voluntary and community sector services as they focus on the
higher need, more complex cases.
• Service users are presenting with increasingly complex needs –
filling in form (debt, transport, stress, housing, relationship
troubles)
• Services users often do not know what is available to them and
where to begin to search for support – crisis point
• Services need to be flexible in their delivery options – length of
service
Continued:
• Transport limitations are already impacting on those who are
socially excluded but for many people this is expected to
become increasingly difficult.
• Service users need increasing help to complete forms to access
benefits.
• Debt is an ongoing theme mentioned by all
Particularly marginalised groups
• Black and minority ethnic groups:
o Finding professionals who understand cultural and faith
backgrounds
o Language barriers
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender
o Need professionals who understand the issues they are
going through and are non-judgemental
o Particular needs for transgender groups
o Often labelled or not understood if victims of violence
Disabilities and Mental Health
• Budget implications
• Young people needing support and somewhere to ‘hang out’ to
discuss in safe environment
• Children and young people not meeting thresholds
• Affordable support
• Emotional support for families and friends
• Higher needs (particularly if associated with complex needs or
challenging behaviour) struggling to get respite i.e. carer needs
to be present
Complex issues
Early intervention services
Domestic violence
Drug and alcohol
• Transport issues, housing, relationship troubles, people in
various states of need, stressed, mental health issues, alcohol
issues, compounded by debt
• People are stuck and can’t get out to access services or support
(transport or no one to sit with their loved one/friend)
• Carers become very socially isolated
Below Thresholds of Need
Disabilities (adults and children)
Mental health
Drug and alcohol
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Real need for support for those below the threshold of need
Support from local authorities dropping
People struggling to access support
Often reaching crisis before able to find help
Often needing longer length of support than 8 or 12 week
package of support offered
Rises in:
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Housing
Domestic violence
Disabilities
Homeless
Debt
Unemployed
Those that have lost housing, those in poor housing
Victims of domestic abuse
Income management/budgeting
Form filling and correspondence (literacy and numeracy)
Advocacy and liaising with landlords or professionals
Welfare Reforms support, including bedroom tax
Changes to PIP, LDA and claimants in general
People needing support on discharge from hospital; foot care
Numbers wanting voluntary placements and training
Hardest groups to reach or support
• Apprenticeships for people with disabilities (disabilities)
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and transgender groups, particularly for
older people (LGBT)
• Black and minority ethnic groups whose language or culture
means they find it hard to seek support (BME)
• Homeless and those sleeping rough (former services personnel)
• Those with mental health, learning disabilities, older people and
travellers (homeless)
• Those who are socially isolated by transport or because they
cannot leave their caring roles
• Those at point of need i.e. those becoming stressed, who are in
a downward spiral of need
• Those who are technologically disadvantaged i.e. no computer,
internet or IT skills
• Those whose literacy levels are poor
Continued
• Those with dementia and their carers
• Those who live in isolated rural communities who are struggling
with mental health
• Finding placements for those with mental health needs to help
them step back into work slowly and steadily
LEP EU Structural and Investment Funds Strategy
2014 – 2020 and Social Inclusion
Fiona Fortune
Marches LEP - Five Strategic Activities
Strategic Activities with investment allocations are:
1) Enhancing Competitiveness, Research and Innovation and Enabling
Technology
2) Supporting the Shift Towards a Low Carbon Economy
3) Supporting the Environment
4) Skills and Employment
5) Social Inclusion
Social inclusion however is also reflected in some of the other Strategic
Activities, such as digital inclusion in Activity 1
Marches LEP is now consulting on the Strategic Activities
Social Inclusion – 4 Sub-Priorities
(with indicative activities)
• 5.1 - Provide the means through which under-represented groups
BECOME WORK READY, and are able to access learning, training and job
opportunities
• 5.2 - Engaging and supporting under-represented groups to enable them
to OVERCOME BARRIERS to employment
• 5.3 - Develop capacity at a local level which SUPPORTS AND EMPOWERS
under-represented groups
• 5.4 - Target GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS with high levels of unemployment, low
education attainment levels and low income through a Community Led
Local Development approach
What can be funded - Eligible Activity
Focus is on supporting people furthest from the job market so they can
make the transition to employment
The investment is from Europe and can only fund eligible activity, it is about
the economy and growth
New guidance on potentially eligible activity
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Outreach activity including taster courses to help improve take up and retention, eg
summer schools, work based access courses
New methods of delivering learning to reach remote learners
Financial/bursary support for course related costs
Additional learning support
HOWEVER, the eligibility will depend on final agreement with the European
Commission
Social Inclusion Indicators
Result Indicators (ESF)
Number of participants engaged in positive activities that address
barriers to work or widen participating in training (for example improving
basic skills or life skills, volunteering in the community, undertaking work
experience - Draft targets (312 MD) and (725 T)
Output Indicators (ERDF)
Number of enterprises receiving support, including social enterprises
Output Indicators (ESF)
Total number of participants - Draft targets (156 MD) and (362 T)
Number of unemployed (including long term unemployed) participants
Number of inactive participants
Number of employed (including self employed) participants
Number of participants aged 15-24
5.4 - Target GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS (CLLD)
CLLD characteristics:
• Focus on smaller areas,
• Investment typically into small local projects
• Based on partners forming a Local Action Group
• Change delivered through Local Development Strategy
EU Investment
• Both ERDF and ESF
• Government has provided guidance
Marches LEP have identified urban areas with highest levels of deprivation
(IMD)
CLLD – WHAT NOW
Within these deprived areas:
• What are the challenges to be addressed?
• Which groups should we be working with?
• What type of activity is needed?
Some questions the LEP need answers to:
• One Local Action Group or do we need more?
• Who should be on the Local Action Group?
• Who would be the Accountable body, guidance says LA?
Timescale:
March 2014
June 2014
September 2014
March 2015
May 2015
Expression of interest Launched by Managing Authority
Deadline for expressions of interest
Successful applicants develop Local Development Strategy
Final strategy submitted
Strategy agreed, delivery starts
Exercise 1 - World Café
Review the sub priority on your table.
Working in your group highlight any
changes/issues/comments on your flip chart
paper.
The facilitator on your table will be able to help
you.
Coffee Break
Feedback from
Exercise 1
Financials and Match Funding
Fiona Fortune
Marches European Investment Framework
7 years (2014 – 2020)
Social Inclusion
allocation
Funding
Amount (Stirling @ 0.85620)
Strategic Activity 5 –More
Developed
ESF
£1,964,979
Strategic Activity 5 –
Transition
ESF
£4,564,573
CLLD – More Developed
ESF
£346,761
CLLD -Transition
ESF
£805,513
CLLD – More Developed
ERDF
£346,761
CLLD - Transition
ERDF
£1,208,269
More Developed – Herefordshire
Transition area –Shropshire and Telford& Wrekin
Investment profiled across the 7 years – subject to EU and government
Investment Framework - Match Funding
Social Inclusion Total EU Funding - £9,236,85
• All EU funding requires match funding
Big Lottery Opt-in (Opt-out)
• Match the social inclusion allocation, except CCLD
• Big investment of £6,529,552
• New money - Additional to existing commitment e.g. Talent Match
• Through voluntary sector
• Will fund local need - not funding an organisations own agenda
• Flexible and proportionate, LEPs have a say in approach
CLLD
• Match funding would need to be found from other sources
Big Lottery Opt-in, latest thinking
Big Lottery application process, subject to change:
• Big will deliver LEP allocation and lottery match
• Partnership development funding – grant to LEP to help identify the most
important partners to help to seek a lead organisation
• Stage one – ideally single application from lead organisation with a
number of delivery partners
• Stage two – development funding to help applicants prepare
business/delivery plan
• Funding commences – 5% lead in payment to set up monitoring
• Smaller scale investments could be via RC type application
LEPs involved at all stages including on Big Lottery panel/committee
Big lottery will need processes in place to be ERDF compliant and ensure
spend and delivery will meet investment profiles
Other potential funders
DWP
• EU funding to accordance with DWP opt-in
• Focus on employment and skill outputs
• DWP would be contracted to deliver
Princes Trust
• Funding to match work with young people
• Would look to extend current programmes
Arts Council England, Heritage Lottery Fund
• Lottery funding would be available
• Local priorities would need to meet the funder priorities
• Unclear if a new programme for LEPs or through current programmes
Other trust and funders
Local funding where additionally can be demonstrated
Exercise 2 - Priorities
Look back the sub priority on your table. Which activities
would you prioritise under:
a) Biggest need
a)Higher percentage of spend
Highlight your decisions by using a star system:
*** three stars for high priority
** two stars for medium priority
*one star for low priority
Use your flipchart paper to capture why you have made these
decisions.
Feedback from
Exercise 1
Next Steps and
Priorities
Sonia Roberts
Thank you for
attending