SkillsActive the Sector Skills Council for Active Leisure and Learning

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SkillsActive the Sector Skills Council for
Active Leisure and Learning

• Steve Mitchell
• Entry to the Workforce Manager Technical Unit
• stephen.mitchell_at_skillsactive.com
• 020 7632 2012 and 07843 027802

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The Apprenticeship Family

• Apprenticeships and Advanced Apprenticeships
• Young Apprenticeships
• Advanced Apprenticeship in Sporting Excellence
• Current Governments flagship programme for
  entering the workforce
• Supported financially by the Learning and Skills
  Council
• Earn While You Learn!
• Aimed at 16-18 year olds (guarantee group)
  funded up to 25 year olds structured training
  route for over 25 year olds

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Apprenticeships and Advanced Apprenticeships

• Cover all of the Sectors main job roles
• Fitness Instructors and Personal Trainers
  Operations Assistants/Lifeguards and Duty
  Managers Coaches Playworkers Activity Leaders
  and Outdoors Instructors Sports Development
  Officers Safety Officers
• Around 4000 apprentices currently in learning
  in England
• Majority of learners are working in the fitness
  industry supported by Fitness First/David
  Lloyd/DC Leisure
• Current completion rates are around 35
• Range of providers/partners include FE colleges
  CoVEs private providers NGBs CSPs

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Apprenticeships and Advanced Apprenticeships

• Content
• All Apprenticeships and Advanced Apprenticeships
  must contain
• Competence element (NVQ)
• Key Skills element
• Knowledge element (VRQ)
• Additional Employer Requirements
• Employment Rights and Responsibilities

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Apprenticeships and Advanced Apprenticeships

• Example of potential Coaching Apprenticeship
• NVQ in Coaching/Teaching/Instructing (sport) or
  Activity Leadership
• Key Skills in Communication and Application of
  Number
• Technical Certificate in IOA
• Technical Certificate UKCC L2/L3
• Employer Options UKCC L2 (other sport) Pool
  Lifeguard H and S First Aid Food Hygiene NVQ
  Unit(s)
• Funding from LSC _at_ 3.5k L2 and 5k L3 (16-19
  age)
• Funding decreases for 19 to 25
• No funding (currently) for over 25s

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Delivery Options for NGBs

• NGB led and contract with LSC
• Partner with FE college or private provider
  locally
• NGB as a subcontractor (top slicing!)..Skills
  Academy
• Partner with large provider or lead college
  nationally
• Examples
• ARA in the SE Region with CSCs
• Tennis/LTA and Esporta with Locomotivation on S
  Coast
• RFU (potential) with Lifetime HF nationally
• There are options available if NGBs want to
  pursue them!!

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AASE

• AASE has been designed to meet the needs of young
  people (aged 16-18) who have the realistic
  potential to achieve excellence in their sport
  and are seeking to perform at the highest level
  as their main career goal.
• Notionally taking two-years to complete, the AASE
  framework will provide for the first time a
  structured national training and development
  route, across all sports, for talented young
  athletes, many of whom may go to represent their
  country on the world stage.

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Elite Categories of Involvement

• The Apprenticeship is designed for four
  categories of involvement
• full-time contracted apprentices at professional
  clubs
• full-time elite athletes receiving support from
  the lottery world class programme or identified
  by the NGB
• any young people involved in the Talented Athlete
  Scholarship Scheme (TASS)
• those talented young people in the academy
  environment no yet offered full time terms

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AASE Content

• NVQ (Edexcel) in Achieving Excellence in Sports
  Performance
• 8 Units (tactical, technical, physiological,
  psychological lifestyle, wider career, health
  and safety, communication)
• Key Skills in Communication, Application of
  Number, Problem Solving, Working With Others,
  Improving Own Learning and Performance)
• 780 GLH of Technical Certificate
• Can include any A or AS Level, GCSEs, vocational
  qualifications relevant to future aspirations
  (e.g. coaching, fitness, sports development,
  business)
• 10k funding over (notionally) 2 years!

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AASE where are we now??

• AASE currently being delivered across Premier
  League and Football Leagues Golf Rugby Union
  pilots in SW
• SkillsActive is currently in discussion with a
  number of other competitive sports across
  England, including cricket, rugby union,
  swimming, tennis and golf about national delivery
  from 09/06
• SkillsActive and Sussex Downs College in Brighton
  have bid for 900k ESF for Olympic and Paralympic
  sports and AASE rowing, swimming, tennis,
  badminton, athletics, triathlon and basketball
• We will be looking for other sports to
  incorporate AASE into their education programmes
  in the future and welcome discussions with any
  interested parties

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Young Apprenticeships

• New DfES initiative started in September 2004
• Aimed at 14 to 16 year old high achievers
• 2 year programme funding 6k per individual
• 3 days a week in mainstream education following
  core National Curriculum subjects
• 2 days a week in college and/or workplace
• Level 2 vocational qualification as the core
  offer
• NVQ Level 1 for structuring the work experience
• Other smaller L1/L2 qualifications as options
  (e.g. JSLA)
• 50 days minimum spent in work placement
• DfES led DCMS supported YST partners

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Young Apprenticeships in Sport

• Started in Cohort 2 September 2005
• 2 partnerships Lowestoft and Brighton (50
  pupils)
• Lowestoft focussing on coaching and leadership
• Brighton focussing on leisure operations and
  facilities
• Cohort 3 September 2006
• 13 partnerships 11 new partnerships across
  England
• Partnerships identified by SkA or themselves or
  YST
• Each partnership contains a range of schools, FE
  or WBL providers, EBPs, LEAs, Connexions, 14/19
  Leads, employers
• Selection processes crucial high achievers

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YAs what does this mean for NGBs??

• Each partnership needs quality work experience
  offers from employers
• The 13 partnerships are shared across the 9
  English regions
• 350 pupils on programme from 09/06
• Huge pool of young talent for NGBs to identify
  future coaches and officials
• Work with schools/colleges locally or nationally
  and improve links into education
• Work placements could be with NGB DOs, in local
  clubs, community initiatives, summer camps, after
  school clubs
• e.g. British Triathlon in Lowestoft

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• Many Thanks Any Questions??