OLASS 3 Tender Roadshow Presentation Greater London

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Chris Dearnley Michael Heanue London LSC OLASS
team OLASS 3 Provider Clarification Event Park
Plaza Riverbank, London 29th October 2008
Welcome
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Purpose

• National priorities / challenges
• Regional offender landscape
• Procurement model
• Units of procurement
• Regional priorities
• Curriculum
• Future

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LSC Priorities

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Challenges

• Next Steps green paper states that OLASS must
• Improve the quality of learning and skills
• Focus on delivery to assist offenders in finding
  meaningful, long term employment
• develop links with employers to enable
  progression into employment
• Plan, organise and prioritise the delivery of
  learning more effectively
• Tackle longstanding weaknesses in the transfer of
  learner data
• Develop new funding protocols for OLASS 3

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• 1. Improve the quality of learning and skills

• A whole provider approach is needed to quality
  improvement and assurance, extending in-house
  support and systems into prisons
• Learning must be inspirational and motivating
• Development funding
• Focus on performance measures
• Stronger partnership working

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2. Focus on delivery to assist offenders in
finding meaningful, long term employment

• Move away from SfL to focus on vocational
  provision
• Skillstrain
• ICT refresh

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3. Develop links with employers to enable
progression into employment

• Strong employer engagement strategy
• Integrated Employment and Skills
• Train to Gain
• Adult Advancement career service in 2010

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• 4.Plan, organise and prioritise the delivery of
  learning more effectively

• Flexible curriculum that takes into account the
  diverse needs of the prison population
• Core curriculum across sites and regions
• More robust partnership work
• Support offenders with through the gate
  programmes and offers

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5. Tackle longstanding weaknesses in the transfer
of learner data

• We expect providers to be ready and prepared with
  systems and processes already in place for robust
  ILR and ILP
• Planning and preparing for MIAP

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6. Develop new funding protocols for OLASS 3

• The LSC will move towards an outcome based
  funding methodology that is more in line with the
  demand led system being introduced in the
  mainstream.

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Landscape

• Custody
• 7,081 held in the capitals 8 prisons
• 11,700 Londoners held outside the capital
• Community
• 50,222 caseloads across 32 boroughs
• Operational Capacity March 2008 Regional prison
  capacity surplus March 2008 Caseload snapshot
  16/07/08 www.gol.gov.uk/497417/docs/247610/657670
  /ResettlementStratSep08_v2.1.pdf

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Developing Capacity

• Through the gate / community
• across the organisation LSC
• across partners ESF / S4J
• across the provider base - Buddy Scheme

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Procurement model
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Unit 1

• a b
• HMP Belmarsh 910 23.8
• HMP Holloway 500 86.4
• HMP Pentonville 1,152 37.0
• HMP Belmarsh East 2010 480
• HMP Belmarsh West 2011 600
• a- Operational capacity March 2008 b- Numbers
  in learning September 2008

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Unit 2

• a b
• HMP Brixton 798 41.4
• HMRC/YOI Feltham B 328 14.6
• HMP Latchmere House 207 7.5
• HMP Wandsworth 1,475 40.7
• HMP Wormwood Scrubs 1,277 23.8
• a- Operational capacity March 2008 b- Numbers
  in learning September 2008

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Young People

• a b
• Feltham A 240 56

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Regional priorities

• Personalised, appropriate learning
• High quality, responsive and relevant provision
• Supporting progression during and after sentence

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Curriculum

• QCF / FLT
• An inclusive core curriculum in every prison,
  featuring
• Functional Skills / FLT
• Embedded SFL
• Employability Skills
• QCA accredited vocational qualifications
• Mix and balance appropriate to each prison

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The future