Skills for Care Funding Briefing

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Skills for Care Funding Briefing

• Ed AnnisMonday 30th June 2008

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Funding Streams and Workforce Development support

• This presentation will cover the following
• TSIF Training Strategy Implementation Fund
• Train to Gain Learning Skills Councils
• European Social Fund Projects
• For information
• Common Induction Standards support pack
• Knowledge skills sets (new Learning Disability
  knowledge sets available from SfC website)
• NMDS (National Minimum Dataset) first stage
  results

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Training Strategy Implementation Fund (TSIF)

• Skills for Care London receives money from the
  Department of Health each year to distribute to
  social care organisations as a contribution to
  employer workforce development activity.
• The money is routed through employer-led
  Partnerships rather than individual
  organisations. One employer acts as the Lead
  Partner.
•  Successful partners have received contracts for
  2008/09.
• This year the total budget is 1.2m

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TSIF Benefits

• A contribution towards the cost of training and
  skills development for the local workforce.
• For 2008/09 funding has been increased as
  follows  
• A contribution of 80 per NVQ unit completed
• A contribution of 160 for each Assessor award,
  (A1)
• Up to 80 for each common induction award
• Belonging to a TSIF partnership gains an employer
  access to funding for NVQ units in social care
  for staff members that are not eligible for other
  funding such as Train to Gain.
• www.skillsforcare.org.uk/view.asp?id649
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TSIF Benefits

• Each partnership differs in size of employers
  but also act as networking groups with attendant
  benefits.
• New partnerships can apply. This year there are
  two new ones.
• SfC have asked the DoH for TSIF funds to be used
  for more training such as short courses that are
  not funded elsewhere, in particular those courses
  required under registration which have to be held
  regularly.

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TSIF Partnerships in SW

• New partners can join partnerships at any time
  of the year, each allocated a different amount of
  units dependant on what asked for, performance in
  previous years etc.
• Croydon Social Care Learning Partnership
• Mike Nash, - London Borough of Croydon
• mike.nash_at_croydon.gov.uk Tel [phone]
  x47192
• Kingston Partnership
• Jeanette James,- Royal Borough of Kingston
• jeanette.james_at_rbk.kingston.gov.uk Tel 020
  8547 6027 / 6026
• South West London Care Partnership
• Erika Bowker - Royal Hospital for
  Neuro-disability
• ebowker_at_rhn.org.uk Tel [phone] x5010
• Richmond Care Providers
• Patricia Cartwright - London Borough of Richmond
• p.cartwright_at_richmond.gov.uk Tel [phone]

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Train to Gain

• Train to Gain supports the costs of training the
  workforce.
• In Health and Social Care Train to Gain can fund
  the full costs of NVQ Level 2 and subsidise NVQ
  Level 3 in Health and Social Care.
• Train to Gain is intended to provide advice to
  employers on training and funds a wide range of
  other courses related to the skills your
  employees need, for example Customer Care,
  Management, Business Admin and Team-working.
• The LSC has just reported that 80,000 employers
  have now engaged, producing 450,000 course
  starters.

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ESF (European Social Fund)

• The European Social Fund (ESF) focuses on
  improvements in education, training and
  employment.
• The principle behind it is to co-financing
  organisations working together to help avoid
  duplication in provision

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To date

• Pan London I
• - Partnerships developed across London
• - 60 projects submitted
• - 23 successful
• Pan London II
• - Ongoing partnership development
• - Speed networking event
• - 23 projects submitted
• - 13 successful
• Total 7million for the Care Sector

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ESF Round III

• Supported by co-financing organisations.
• London has the largest allocation in England of
  323 million.
• Londons principal theme is a focus on health.
• Collaborative design and delivery expected with
  target groups and communities.
• Sector Skills Council support encouraged.

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ESF Priorities

• From April 2008 to December 2010
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• Priority 1 Extending employment opportunities
  (215.9 million)
• 1.1  Improving the employability and skills of
  the unemployed and economically inactive.
• 1.2  Employment and skills activities targeted at
  young people who are not in education, employment
  or training (NEET) or at risk of becoming NEET.

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ESF Priorities

• Priority 2 Creating a skilled and adaptable
  workforce (104.5million)
• 2.1 Increasing the number of employees with
  improved basic skills levels, including ESOL
  needs.
• 2.2 Increasing the number of employees with level
  2 skills.
• 2.3 Increasing the number of employees with
  levels 3 4 skills.

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Partnerships

• A partnership approach to a project reduces risk
  of delivery failure which is a key assessment
  factor in the evaluation of a tender application
  for funding.
• Skills for Care held a briefing session shortly
  after the tenders were announced. Both existing
  and prospective new ESF project leads were
  encouraged to attend the morning or afternoon
  sessions in order to gain a better picture of the
  plans and skills demand for the care workforce in
  London.

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SfC Sub Regions - London

• North East London Barking Dagenham, City of
  London, Hackney, Havering, Newham, Redbridge,
  Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest.
• North Central London Barnet, Camden, Enfield,
  Haringey, Islington 
• North West London Brent, City of Westminster,
  Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow,
  Hillingdon, Hounslow, Royal Borough of Kensington
  and Chelsea.
• South East Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth,
  Lewisham and Southwark
• South West Croydon, Kingston, Merton, Richmond
  and Wandsworth.

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Contact Details

• For funding specific information/ support,
  please contact Cheryl Gregory that leads on ESF/
  Funding for SfC London.
• Cheryl Gregory
• NE Sub Regional Coordinator
• Skills for Care, Kensington Charity Centre,
• 4th Floor, Charles House, 375 Kensington High
  Street, London, W14 8QH
• Tel [phone]
• Email cheryl.gregory_at_skillsforcare.org.uk