Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 1 Train to Gain Provider Support Programme January 2008 Capacity development

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Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 3 Big bucks

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 4 What we’ll cover Policy context LSC 2008/09 – 2010/11 Commissioning and funding Raising quality Regional plan The future...

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 5 Policy context

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 6 Vision Economic progress Higher productivity and improved overall economic performance Ability to compete effectively in the global economy on the basis of high skills, high value- added business strategies Social justice Social mobility – education and skills help each person determine their life chances Every person has the opportunity to realise individual potential, overcome disadvantage and achieve economic well-being

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 7 Perspective Delivery PSA CSR

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 8 CSR 2007 Sustainable growth and prosperity Fairness and opportunity for all Stronger communities and a better quality of life A more secure, fair and environmentally sustainable world

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 9 PSA 2 – LSC lead/contribute Young people Raise the educational achievement of all children and young people Narrow the gap between children from low income and disadvantaged backgrounds and their peers Adults Improve the skills of the population, as a step towards ensuring a world-class skills base by 2020

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 10 Delivery Regional Development Agencies Sector Skills Councils Local authorities Learning and Skills Council PSA 2

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 11 LSC 2008/09 – 2010/11

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 12 Priorities Demand Supply

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 13 Raise demand – young people Improve offer – Choice, flexibility, personalisation Increase places Raise achievement Support progression Target NEETs Provide extra financial support

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 14 Raise demand – adults Build ownership – Skills Accounts Promote Train to Gain Encourage people into learning – Careers service – Joined up skills and employment Target excluded people Provide extra financial support Promote FE

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 15 Raise demand – employers Enhance and broaden Train to Gain – Integrate 19+ Apprenticeships – Extend Level 3 offer – Develop Local Employment Partnerships Develop culture of investment in training – Skills Pledge Make qualifications more attractive Target low-skilled employees – Unions Run skills campaign

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 16 Transformation?

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 17 Transforming FE - levers Money – Funding aligned to priorities – Increased fee income Performance management – Tighter standards – Self regulation Removing barriers / bureaucracy – Commissioning – Qualifications Market-making – Specialist provision, disadvantage

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 18 Transforming FE - incentives Investment – Infrastructure – Capacity Promotion – Reputation Reward (high performing providers) – Expansion – Longer contracts

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 19 Deliver targets – better how? Better skills – Participation – Achievement Better jobs – Employability – Employment outcomes Better lives – Developmental learning – Supporting the most disadvantaged

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 20 Commissioning and funding

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 21 Commissioning Negotiated commissioning – existing providers – Most – Most adult learner-responsive – Most employer-responsive Open and competitive tendering – existing and new providers – Gaps in provision or niche provision – Train to Gain – Offender learning and skills (2009) – ESF

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Mindset 2000 LtdSlide summary Increase overall participation – Despite demographic decline Maintain learner numbers in school sixth forms and colleges Increase Apprenticeship places by 18 percent Support the next steps in the 14–19 reforms Provide a basic funding rates increase of 2.1 percent in 2008/09 Ensure that institutions have reasonable stability to manage change over the period

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 25 Adult funds

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 26 Employer-responsive participation

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 27 Employer-responsive summary Support the rapid expansion of Train to Gain, to a total value of over £1 billion Widen the scope of TTG to include Level 3 and higher-level Skills partnerships Increase 19–25 Apprenticeships by 20,000 Allocate £30 million for Apprenticeships for people aged 25 (2008/09) Expand the National Employer Service

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 28 Funding pattern

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 29 Regional plan

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 30 Where the money will go

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 31 Adult budgets – by level

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 32 Growth TTG – 24,750 starts, up from 14,560 in 2007/08 Apprenticeships – Increase in Apprenticeships by 120 to 13,890 – Increase in Apprenticeships by 600 to 10,290 – Increase in priority groups of learners in Adult Apprenticeships (25+) by 500 to 1,000

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 33 Priority groups Young people who are not in education, employment or training People with no or low skills Lone parents People on benefits People who live in deprived neighbourhoods; People who face issues of social exclusion e.g. offenders

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 34 Participation of priority groups People who need most support and encouragement to engage with, and remain in, learning Foundation Learning Tier Maintain investment in provision – Learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities – Adult safeguarded learning (PCDL) – ESOL

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 35 Priority sectors – RES Chemicals and pharmaceuticals Automotive Defence and marine Food and drink Energy Knowledge intensive business services Health and social care Tourism and hospitality Commercial creative

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 36 Other priority sectors Underpinning sectors – important in terms of employment – Construction, transport and retail Public sector – Strategic Health Authority – Local authorities Sectors identified at sub-regional level – e.g. Tees Valley City Region

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 37 Analysis

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 38 The future

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 39 Government... how will they work things out? DCSF DWP DIUS Young people’s education, training and well-being Education and training of adults, innovation and research Employment, welfare and benefits, retirement and equality

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 40 Young people – the known FE and sixth forms Work-based learning Local authorities Responsible for volume, pattern and range of provision in each area Transfer from LSC in 2011

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 41 Skills – the unknown Sector Skills Councils Commission for Skills and Employment Regional Development Agencies Devolved government and city regions Higher Education H[and F?]EFCE

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 42 Employment – another unknown Employability Skills Sustainable employment

Mindset 2000 LtdSlide 43 Your future?