Embedding Equality and Diversity In Learning Across West Yorkshire

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• Embedding Equality and Diversity In Learning
  Across West Yorkshire

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• INTRODUCTION
• Aims and Objectives
• Partnership
• Delivery Approach
• Outputs and Outcomes
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Marketing and Publicity
• Risk Management

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• AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1
• Overall aim
• To work with key stakeholders to implement the
  LSC Equality and Diversity Strategy, enabling
  organisations to better address issues of social
  and economic exclusion and in particular barriers
  to learning preventing individuals engaging in
  learning and progressing into employment.

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• AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 2
• Strategic Objectives
• SO1 To improve collaboration, partnership
  working and exchange of best practice and
  understanding of need at a local and sub-regional
  level to support equality and diversity as an
  integral mode of operation for those
  organisations involved in learning.
• SO2 To promote the benefits and the different
  routes to learning for targeted groups.
• SO3 To assist in removing barriers to learning
  for targeted groups, through customised holistic
  actions, involving a range of stakeholders,
  including employers, and increasing engagement,
  progression into mainstream provision, retention
  and achievement.
• SO4 To improve the systems and infrastructure
  supporting the understanding of needs and
  planning to meet the needs of target groups.

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• AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 3
• Operational Objectives
• OO1 To bring together key stakeholders to agree
  a delivery plan
• OO2 To coordinate and enable delivery of a range
  of actions at local, cross district and
  sub-regional levels as agreed in the delivery
  plan
• OO3To build on existing actions and good
  practice
• OO4 To communicate and collaborate with key
  players in the different sectors within WY at
  sub-regional and local level, and within themes

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• AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 4
• Operational Objectives
• OO5 To develop and maintain effective channels
  of communication between the stakeholders and the
  LSC, enabling consultations and influencing
  future strategies and policies
• OO6 To consult on and promote the LSC ED Action
  Plan implementation, through local and
  sub-regional channels, to enable engagement and
  access to support for relevant stakeholders and
  target groups.
• OO7 To set up systems to monitor progress on
  delivery of individual actions and measure impact
  on the target groups.

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• PARTNERSHIP
• WYCC York College
• Joseph Priestley College lead
• Local Players LPs/LA Fair Cities
• WY Players WYLP, CLE, WYLC, WYIAG, LSC
• Regional Players TUC, ACAS
• Specialists Consultants e.g. ATL, Fairplay
  Partnership Lancaster Consulting

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• DELIVERY APPROACH 1
• Consultation
• Analysis of previous mapping (MTL)
• Detailed delivery plan development
• Partnership agreement on delivery agents
• Additional commissioning
• Service Level Agreements

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• DELIVERY APPROACH 2
• Delivery Team
• Steering Group
• Delivery Group
• Marketing sub-group
• Learning Partnerships/LAs

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• OUTPUTS OUTCOMES 1
• 2 marketing campaigns
• 17 partnership projects
• 1 data collection/collation monitoring system
• Engagement of 1000 individuals into learning
• Progression of 540 learners into further learning
• Progression of 66 learners into employment
• 66 Employers embedding equality ED practice and
  standards
• 33 orgs improving ability to work with target
  groups
• 13 orgs introducing ED standards

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• OUTPUTS OUTCOMES 2
• 1000 individuals from target groups participating
  in learning
• 1000 increases in retention
• 1000 increase in achievement
• Improved ability to plan for 6 target group needs
• Holistic approaches developed to support the
  needs of 6 target groups

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• MONITORING EVALUATION
• MIS system
• Reporting
• SLA monitoring visits
• Beneficiary Feedback
• Mid-term evaluation
• End of project evaluation

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• MARKETING PUBLICITY
• Marketing sub-group
• Market strategy
• Coordination of promotional activities
• ESF Logos publicity regulations
• LSC WYCC logos

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• RISK MANAGEMENT
• Risk register
• Ownership of risk
• Regular review by Steering Group
• Preventative actions supported by robust systems
  monitoring