1. Winning Ways: Into Employment

2. Winning Ways: Into Employment The National Skills Academy Working with Employers Meeting Employer Needs Welfare to Work Case Studies - developing suitable job roles - routes into employment - pre-employment training - volunteering opportunities - utilising physical activity Future Interventions

3. To develop the training environment for sport and leisure in order to help create a highly skilled workforce fit for current and future purpose To complete the continuum from workforce development planning, through qualifications, to training provision Skills Active National Skills Academy To provide a one-stop shop for quality- assured training provision for employers and individual learners To provide sport and active leisure employers with access to ‘Better, Cheaper and Easier’ training The National Skills Academy

4. Led by employers: –National Board –Consultation Groups –Network relationships –Employer ‘solutions’ led Working within SkillsActive Group to provide: –Workforce planning –Roles, Competencies & Qualifications –Analysis of training needs Quality assured training solutions –Fit for purpose –Responsive to employer need –OFSTED plus other QAA Reduced Costs –Economies of Scale / aggregated demand –Increased access to public funding Working with Employers Easier Better Cheaper

5. National network of quality assured training providers Online Academy Apprenticeships Funded programmes Innovative targeted programmes Active Passport system Registers Learner Management Systems Meeting Employer Needs

6. Future Jobs Fund –Contract size - £38 million –5,000 jobs created –150 contract partners involved in bid (87% SMEs) –Programme of interventions: Constructive relationship with JCPs Stimulate sustainable entry level jobs Advise on job specifications Create and deliver pre-employment training Provide on the job vocational training programmes Support employers from recruitment to retention Exit routes into further training (Graduate Gateway) Welfare to Work Delivery

7. Case Studies

8. Issues –Ensuring employers understood and bought-in to the programme –Creating job roles suitable for long term unemployed / disenfranchised candidates AND employers Solutions –Worked closely with JCP network to understand target groups and most attractive job roles –Targeted employers who work with hard to reach groups –Provided ‘example’ job roles / job descriptions across employer sectors –Created direct links between employers and JCPs Impact – Roles created matched the skill level of potential candidates –Allowed candidates to ease back into employment –Easier recruitment and greater sustainability Case Study 1: Developing Suitable Job Roles

9. It was especially good to have an Academy person in our region to go through the benefits and challenges of adopting the government- funded programme, and our specific issues as a business, That definitely cut down on paperwork. Sport For Life “ “

10. Issues –Attracting candidates to available roles – Providing meaningful employment and progression opportunities – Ensuring sustainability Solutions –‘Promotion’ to candidates at JCPs –Easy access to recruitment days –Motivational recruitment process –Ensuring roles delivered business objectives Impact –Higher percentage of applicants taken on –Candidates have visisble long term progression route –Franchise model offers opportunity for low skilled candidates to grow business Case Study 2: Routes into employment

11. We’ll also be helping them develop a business plan and action plan, and provide them with any other support they need. Premier Sport “ “

12. Issues – No skills = No job and No job = No skills –Long term unemployment eroding job ready skills –Unemployed young people not a homogenous group – no ‘one size fits all’ approach Solutions –Pre employment assessment to identify candidates skills gap –Interventions created to meet both individual candidate need AND employer expectation –Training packages include basic skills, employability skills and early job relevant skills Impact –Candidates given basic transferable skills as needed –Candidates job ready at entry point –Sustainability of employment improved by early investment in pre -employment interventions Case Study 3: Pre-employment training

13. Every one of the 120 young people we have taken on have just been looking for a chance to make something of themselves. At the time of writing not one person has dropped out of the Future Jobs Fund programme working for Fit for Sport Fit For Sport “ “

14. Issues –Long periods without meaningful activity has negative impact on likelihood of employment –Long term unemployment eroding self confidence and skills Solutions –Provide volunteering opportunity as part of route to employment –Tie in volunteering / work placement to job opportunity –Guarantee interview as part of process Impact –Helps the candidate develop / retain / improve job skills –Opens door to potential employment –Increases sustainability through experience - ‘try before you buy’ Case Study 4: Volunteering Opportunities

15. Attractive for Candidates I was going for about four job interviews a week but not getting anywhere so I thought I’d see what the Academy could do for me. Attractive for employers I’ve never employed anyone straight from unemployment before but I was pleasantly surprised. The four we selected were enthusiastic and reliable young men, wanting to work and willing to learn. They have been excellent. Mayor’s Legacy and Sport For Life “ “ “ “

16. Issues –Lack of life structure, lower confidence and self esteem are factors of long term unemployment –Poorer health / lack of physical activity reduces learning ability –Significant impact on readiness for employment Solutions –Provide physical activity as part of wider training interventions –Carry out all types of training in leisure centre and fitness venues Impact – Candidates more motivated, fitter and more work ready –Greater impact of training interventions and long term retention of learning –Greater likelihood of recruitment and ‘lasting the course’, i.e. sustainability of employment Case Study 5: Utilising Physical Activity

17. I work with a programme coordinator to shift the boys’ focus from crime to football and help them see all the other possibilities available to them in life. The boys are at a very impressionable age and, if even a handful of them listen to us, we’ve achieved something. Case Study 5: Charlton Athletic “ “

18. Future Interventions

19. The Work Programme Development of pre-employment training Pre-Apprenticeships Work Academies Targeted funded programmes –ESF funding for engagement of NEETS –Sport England Volunteer support programmes –Regional funding; Mayor’s Legacy Regional Growth Fund Future Interventions