Transcript EU Policy Update: Cross-border care and priorities for 2009

NHS European Office
Accessing EU structural funding
Michael Wood, European Policy Manager
14th August
What we will discuss
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Brief background to EU structural funds
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Top priorities for promoting employment and supporting labour
mobility; social inclusion; and skills
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The kinds of activities it can support
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The timetable
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What should LETBs do next
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Useful reading
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Any questions
European Structural & Investment Funds:
Opportunities for LETBS
Wednesday 14th August 2013
Kevin Richardson
Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
Quick overview of EU SIF
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Covers European Regional Development Funds (ERDF)
and European Social Funds (ESF) - €6bn across
England from 2014-2020
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Supports economic and social development projects –
differ from other EU funds in that administered at
national level
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Funds to be used at a local level to increase their
combined impact alongside other local public and
private investments
Top Priorities
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access to employment for job-seekers and inactive people,
including local employment initiatives and support for labour
mobility;
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sustainable integration of young people into the labour market, in
particular those not in employment, education or training
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active inclusion in particular with a view to improving employability
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enhancing access to lifelong learning, upgrading the skills and
competences of the workforce and increasing the labour market
relevance of education and training systems; including improving
the quality of vocational education and training and the
establishment and development of work-based learning and
apprenticeship schemes
Some examples of eligible activities (1)
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Providing additional or more intensive support to help people to move
towards work, enter work (including self-employment), and to
progress in work
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Additional and innovative approaches to pre-employment training.
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Additional support for long-term unemployed people, including those
who have left the Work Programme, and including new approaches
to work experience and training.
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Providing additional support to specific target groups such as people
with disabilities or health barriers (including mental health issues),
people with caring responsibilities, lone parents, ethnic minorities, exservice personnel, ex-offenders and those from households with
inter-generational worklessness.
Some examples of eligible activities (2)
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Reducing the number of young people not in
employment, education, or training, and those at risk of
disengaging (including through engagement and
preparation activities, access to apprenticeships, and
personal coaching).
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Skills support for apprenticeships and traineeships (but
not direct funding of training or wage costs) including
improvements to the recruitment, assessment and
facilities for training.
Some examples of eligible activities (3)
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Support for intermediate, technical and high level
vocational provision for the unemployed and for career
progression.
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Supporting low skilled people in low paid work to help
them progress.
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Support for intermediate, technical and higher level skills
for specific industries for industries and sectors identified
as driving growth in local economies in support of other
relevant thematic objectives.
Timetable
 7th October – LEPs send first draft Investment
Strategies; to include a) allocation of cash by
theme b) indicative types of activity and c)
approach to collaboration across boundaries
 End Jan ’14 LEPs submit final drafts for approval;
likely to include specific proposals for projects
 Summer ’14 – programme opens and projects
formally appraised, offer letters issued and spend
starts
 Note. LEP Investment Strategies will change
through time; process yet to be identified
What should LETBs do next?
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Talk to LEPs !! – be part of local consultative process
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Talk to AHSNs !! – they should already be talking to
LEPs, work out how you can both develop bids
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Identify potential scale & scope of possible activities
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Make clear basis for collaboration across LEP
boundaries
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Build / share? EU funding expertise
Useful reading
• European Commission guide to Social Innovation –
February 2013
• Government’s preliminary guidance to Local
Enterprise Partnerships – April 2013
• NHS European Office briefing – June 2013
• LEP to LETB allocations – June 2013
• Supplementary guidance to LEPs – July 2013
• Framework of European Growth Programme
priorities, background analysis – July 2013
• Individual LEP websites
• The LEP Network interactive map
Any Questions?
• Keep in touch as you build and establish your
relationships with LEPs..........
[email protected] 07990 787999
[email protected] 07872 604109