Transcript Ann Jones Director: Regional Working Learning and Skills Council LSC/RSPs and the Impact on Delivery 23 June 2005

Ann Jones Director: Regional Working
Learning and Skills Council
LSC/RSPs and the Impact on Delivery
23 June 2005
LSC/RSPs AND THE IMPACT
ON DELIVERY
• LSC Changing times
• RSPs Value Added
LSC NATIONAL PRIORITIES
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Make learning truly demand-led
Ensure all 14-19 year olds have access to
high quality, relevant learning opportunities
Transform FE so that it attracts and
stimulates more business investment
Strengthen our role in economic development
so that we provide the skills needed to help
individuals into employment
Strengthen capacity to work effectively at
regional level, particularly with RDAs and
RSPs
Improve the skills of workers who deliver
public services.
LSC FUNDING
2005-06
2006-07
2007-08
£9,322,026 £9,587,875 £10,056,907
LSC CHANGING TIMES
Plan-led funding:
• Funding the provider plan including linking
budgets to provision
• Less micro-management, more strategic
• Simpler calculation of funds
• Variable costs addressed at provider level
(through factor), not at individual learner level
• Use provider Management Information, ‘real time’
view
LSC CHANGING TIMES
Skills and Employers:
• Positioning FE at the heart of the business
agenda and skills strategy
• Need to win the confidence of more employers
• A greater focus on meeting employers’ needs
• More staff with recent experience of business
• More provision is delivered in the workplace
• Strong vocational specialism(s) to match
local/regional employment pattern
• More income generated from employers
• FE seen to be accessible, flexible, value for
money solution to skills needs
LSC CHANGING TIMES
NETP - the core of a demand-led approach to
delivering training for employers of all kinds and
offering:
• A ‘first stop shop’ for business development
and skills needs
• Access to specialist help in identifying skills
needs
• Bespoke flexible training programmes
• Free training to enhance employability skills of
employees, including literacy and numeracy
• A national service for large multi-site
employers.
RSPs’ - SECTOR PRIORITIES
Consistent Regional Sector priorities identified
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Construction
Engineering
Health and Social Care
Retail
Manufacturing
Tourism
LSC CHANGING TIMES
Foster Review of FE. Purpose to identify:
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The distinctive contribution colleges make
to the learning and skills market
Their long-contribution to economic
development and social inclusion
Anything else that needs to happen to
transform the sector
Report in Autumn
REGIONAL SKILLS PARTNERSHIPS
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Value Added
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Influencing planning and funding
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Measuring impact
RSPs ADDING VALUE
Overall RSPs should be:
‘the vehicle for ensuring that all the adult skills,
business support, labour market and
productivity services available at regional, local
and sectoral level are mobilised to support
regional priorities.’ (Source – RSP Prospectus)
•Roles and Responsibilities handout
RSPs’ - COMMON PRIORITY AREAS
• Development of Leadership and Management
Skills
• Providing a seamless brokerage service to
meet the needs of employers
• Supporting individuals to enter the workforce
and sustain employment, especially those most
disadvantaged
• Increase the proportion of the workforce
qualified to Level 3
NATIONAL EMPLOYER
TRAINING PROGRAMME
• By 2010 – 2.25 million adults to achieve
functional competence in literacy, language and
numeracy
• Over 3 million to achieve first full Level 2
qualification
• When fully operational NETP to support, per
year:
• 350,000 learners
• 50,000 employers
• 175,000 first full Level 2 qualifications
Individual provider 3 year
development plans
INFLUENCING PLANNING
AND FUNDING
Local
LSC
Plans
Local
LSC
Plans
Local
LSC
Plans
Regional
Priorities
Regional
Economic
Strategy
RSP Priorities
RSPS MEASURING IMPACT
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Roles and responsibilities (adding value)
RSPs Performance against their own action
plan
Relationship management
• Possible area:
- public sector
LSC/RSPs AND IMPACT ON
DELIVERY
•LSC – Changing times
•RSPs:
- Vehicle for adding value to ‘all’ partner
contributions
- let them walk before they can run
- powerful influence on skills planning and
funding
Ann Jones Director: Regional Working
Learning and Skills Council
LSC/RSPs and the Impact on Delivery
23 June 2005