ESF Knowledge Transfer Event

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• ESF Briefing Adult Skills
• Philippa Lester
• Skills Development Director,
• Employability

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• Im going to talk about
• Worklessness in Yorkshire and the Humber
• Skills for Jobs
• Offender Learning and Skills

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Background

• Government policy is to link skills with
  employment in a more effective way
• It began with the Skills Strategy and the Leitch
  Report and Implementation Plan have made this
  higher profile.
• The 2020 ambitions is very stretching 95 of
  adults to have basic skills of functional
  literacy and numeracy, up from 79 numeracy and
  85 literacy.

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The Big Three

• Review of sub-national economic development and
  regeneration July 07
• DBER, HM Treasury, Communities and Local
  Government
• In work, better off next steps to full
  employment July
  07
• DWP
• World Class Skills
• Implementing the Leitch Review of Skills in
  England
  July 07
• DIUS

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LSC is committed to raising skill levels through

• Integrating skills with sustainable employment
• Engaging with our partners to create a single
  delivery chain from unemployment to work
• Supporting people in employment to sustain jobs
  and continue to develop skills
• Ensuring progression to Train to Gain for in
  work opportunities and employer engagement

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Worklessness in Y H

• 52 of the Local Authority Districts in
  Yorkshire and the Humber are in the upper
  quartile of the most deprived in the country.
• 18 of the worst 300 Super Output Areas are in
  Y H, mainly represented by wards in Hull,
  Bradford, Leeds and Sheffield.
• The latest figure shows 240,300 on Incapacity
  Benefit in the region.
• Early returners to benefits after short periods
  of employment are often linked to a lack of
  qualifications.

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Worklessness in Y H

• Less than 50 of individuals without any
  qualifications are working, compared to 75 of
  those who have a level 2.
• In Yorkshire and the Humber we have high numbers
  of the working age population who do not have
  Level 2 qualifications 35.7 which is more than
  1 million individuals.

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Skills for Jobs is

• An umbrella term for activities which link
  skills to sustainable employment opportunities
• A response to Leitch implementation
• For low skilled adults who are not working, want
  to work and will support them into both
  employment and continued up-skilling

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Skills for Jobs is

• A progression route to Train to Gain,
  apprenticeships and further learning
• An offer which might include sector routeways,
  work trials, work preparation, access to
  qualifications, guaranteed interviews and much
  more
• Capacity building

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One Example

• The Sheffield City Strategy Employment Consortium
  has developed a business plan for South Yorkshire
  which
• Has been agreed by all partners
• Has been approved by DWP
• Sets out an approach to take on worklessness
  through a whole person delivery model
• LSC and JCP are jointly delivering Priority One
  ESF and tenders specifications have been agreed
  by both.

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Focussing on Offenders

• Our aim is to support reducing re-offending
  rates across Yorkshire and the Humber through
  offering high quality learning and skills that
  improves offenders job prospects.
• 24,000 offenders under supervision in custody
  and in the community in YH

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Focussing on Offenders

• Education, training and employment is the most
  frequently occurring need identified by
  offenders -56 NOMS data
• We hope to build on previous activity including
  Equal to engage individuals and employers.
• Local Offender Learning and Skills Partnerships
  are critical to success.