Thriving communities, affordable homes South East London Housing Partnership HCA apprenticeships & skills activities Liz Cowie 28/07/2010

Thriving communities, affordable homes Why is the HCA committed to promoting apprenticeships and employment and training initiatives?  Government commitment to maximising employment opportunities  Important in current economic climate – rising unemployment  HCA outcomes are about thriving communities; building capacity and capability in communities is key to this  Creating an employment and skills dividend

Thriving communities, affordable homes HCA’s Employment and Skills outputs Output heading HCA core output Sub-outputs contributing to core output Apprenticeships (NAS-approved) -Created -Safeguarded Employment Initiatives -Progression into employment (unemployed less than 6 months) -Progression into employment (unemployed more than 6 months) Training Initiatives -New entrants -Existing workforce -Skills culture -School/college/university visits or School/college workshops or Work experience or Work experience 16+ -Vocational qualifications or CSCS skills cards -Short courses

Thriving communities, affordable homes HCA London’s regional Employment and Skills targets  For the 08/11 period, the HCA nationally has been given the target of delivering 2,800 apprenticeships and training initiatives through NAHP and other housing pledge-funded projects  Based on baseline data from across various programmes, the London apprenticeship-specific targets are to deliver 403 newly created or safeguarded apprenticeships. To date, 21 have been delivered

Thriving communities, affordable homes E&S Monitoring forms for NAHP-funded schemes  Discussed and agreed at AHPB  Single region proforma –NAHP: for RPs who only work in one region –LANB  Multi region proforma –NAHP: for RPs who work in two or more regions

Thriving communities, affordable homes Single region proforma  For NAHP: Name, method statement, forecast apprenticeship numbers inserted by E&S team from Oct ’09 proforma  Regional staff fill in SOY allocation  The RP fills in the site details and outputs  For LANB: Regional staff fill out name, site details, approved allocation  LAs fill in outputs  Any comments or points to note are filled in per quarter

Thriving communities, affordable homes Multi-region - Summary sheet  Name, method statement, forecast apprenticeship numbers inserted by E&S team from Oct ’09 proforma  Mark the regions the RP works in and will be reporting on (delete “X’s” where not applicable)  The ‘Achieved’ outputs on the Summary sheet are populated by a formula already inserted.

Thriving communities, affordable homes Multi-region proforma Region specific reporting  The partner fills in site details and outputs for each of the regions they work in  Any comments or points to note are filled in per quarter  Tabs at the bottom of the spreadsheet are ignored for regions they do not work in

Thriving communities, affordable homes Return dates PeriodReturn Date Q1 1 April to 30 June14 July Q2 1 July to 30 September7 October Q3 1 October to 31 December7 January Q4 1 January to 31 March7 April  Return dates for ES monitoring forms are:

Thriving communities, affordable homes Q1 Feedback from RPs  There is a widespread existing commitment, by most RPs, to the creation of Employment and Skills opportunities at the local level  A number of London RPs refer to the Notting Hill Housing’s Construction Training Initiative (CTI) in West London  The cost implication of Employment and Skills, especially apprenticeships, requirements needs to be considered  There are some significant difficulties in monitoring through the supply chain  Employment and Skills returns were required at too short notice for Q1 reporting on NAHP-linked outputs

Thriving communities, affordable homes Next steps  Most RPs are starting to consult and create framework agreements for the creation and/or procurement of streamlined Employment and Skills opportunities  Many RPs are starting to introduce streamlined systems for monitoring Employment and Skills outputs on each contract on a monthly or quarterly basis  Some RPs are starting their own apprenticeship sponsorship schemes

Thriving communities, affordable homes Issues for HCA  Advice is needed on the monitoring and evaluation of the apprenticeship and training profile and matrices  Best practice should be shared more widely: understand what other RPs have done, strategy and policy for implementation, procedures to be applied through the supply chain, etc.

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