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The Role of Colleges in these Challenging
Times 31st March 2009 Presented to NCC and LSC
Spring Conference By Karen Woodward and Doug
Boynton
Welcome
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A simple idea?
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An asset to your local community

• Leaders in the community
• Promoting social inclusion/cohesion
• Enabling people to develop the skills they need
  to progress in work and life
• Enabling employers grow the skills they need

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Facing many ways

• schools
• connexions
• JCP
• Adult Guidance
• Parents
• Local Authorities
• Employers
• Partners and stakeholders
• Funders

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Delivering many things to many people

• Targets
• Academic qualifications
• Vocational qualifications full, first, units,
  thins!!!
• Foundation Learning Tier
• PCDL
• Success rates
• Jobs?
• Audience
• 14 -19
• 19 -24
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• LLDD
• employers

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Too much noise?
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Announcementitis?

• October 2008
• 15th 100 million to support the unemployed
• 21st public sector to pay contractors in 10 days
  from invoice
• 22nd 350 million for SMEs in Train to Gain and
• 24th 98 million in TtG for training on key
  sectors for new compacts

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More announcements

• November
• 12th - DWP announce 6million for rapid response
  to redundancies and
• 24th - 1.3 billion to JCP to continue
  delivering effective support for the unemployed
  to find a new job.

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And yet more

• December
• 1st - 10 million for an Apprenticeship
  Expansion Scheme
• 17th 158 million from ESF allocated to
  supporting those unemployed (100 million already
  announced in October)

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New Year new news

• January
• 5th considering raising ROCPA immediately
  designed to combat rising youth unemployment
• 7th - 140 million to fund an additional 35,000
  Apprenticeship places on top of the already
  planned 1 billion
• 12th DWP further support worth 500 million to
  help long term unemployed
• Golden hellos
• 75,000 new training places
• AND

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More news

• January
• 13th New opportunities Cabinet Office paper
  produced to increase social mobility including
• expansion of CDLs
• Review of how financial support to those aged 16
  -19 is delivered
• New allowances for training for long term carers
  and low income families
• More access to training under TtG for agency
  workers and
• Commitment to work with colleges and providers on
  the more flexible use of existing funds to
  support learners in to sustainable employment and
  progress in employment
• 22nd HEFCE announce 50 million to provider
  training or retraining to businesses and the
  unemployed

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Opportunities or threats?
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Key issues

• Recession and student numbers go up
• Apprenticeships
• Jobs v qualifications
• Future funders LA, JCP, SFA and
• Training at the heart of recovery from recession

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Looking to the future

• Employer engagement is key
• Quality
• Responsiveness
• Grab the worklessness agenda

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Learn from those with experience
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Life on the front line

• Doug Boynton
• Principal
• TCAT

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The Role of Colleges in Economically Challenging
TimesDoug Boynton
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• Why are we in the FE business?
• Because we care passionately about people,
  education, and training

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• We are in a unique position to offer hope , new
  direction, and purpose to individuals and
  businesses
• Unemployment is always a bitter pill.
• However it is only terminal, if as an individual
  you do not have the skills or motivation to adapt
  to new working conditions
• FE Colleges can and should be offering solutions
  to this ( many are)

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• Our role has never been more important
• We have the skills, we have the empathic staff
• However we need to develop new and different
  partnerships new flexibilities
• We need to be able to cut thro some of the
  nonsense and respond rapidly ( that includes
  access to monies to enable us to respond)

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• Every college has an enviable network of existing
  contacts with employers
• You probably know what is happening in your area
  before anyone does
• No provider base is better positioned in these
  challenging times
• We will however have to take some risks

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• What are we doing at TCAT?
• We established a Rapid Response Team
• This team can put support in place for a company
  within a matter of days
• There are 4 types of support that we are
  currently providing to companies
• In addition we have a separate support package
  for individuals who have been unemployed for more
  than 6 months

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• The 4 support programmes for companies are as
  follows
• Support for companies under the threat of closure
• Support for companies who are restructuring/downsi
  zing

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• 3. Support for companies who require specific
  training to support a diversification of their
  business
• 4. Support for companies who are implementing
  planned downtime and short term working

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• Support for Individuals
• We are currently proving this thro the National
  Voluntary Training Pathfinder
• At the moment it is for people that have been out
  of work for more than 6 months
• It is possible it may be extended to 1st day
  signers

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• This involves a new partnership with JCP and it
  has been an interesting journey
• After a very slow start it has now picked up
  momentum and we have 100 people on programme and
  50 referrals a week
• All delivered flexibly on campus
• Feedback form both the individuals and JCP is
  very good

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• What do we still need?
• More flexibility from all agencies
• Some way around the weight of bureaucracy that
  hampers responsiveness (everybody needs to work
  quicker)
• A strategic steer so that while we are helping
  individuals and companies we know what the end
  point is