Raising Expectations: the broader context

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Raising Expectations the broader context

• Five themes
• The SNR and the SIRS
• LAAs and MAAs
• Strategic Commissioning
• Councils and Strategic Partnerships
• Its the economy, stoopid!

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The SNR and the SIRS

• The Sub-National Review of Economic Development
  and Regeneration (July 2007)
• Tackling the regions productivity gap
• Using regional and local economic assessments
• Bringing together in a Single Integrated Regional
  Strategy the regions approaches to economic
  development (including skills and employment),
  regeneration, housing and transport
• Overseen by a Joint Strategy and Investment Board
  (Council Leaders and AWM Executives)
• This is the wider context for Raising Expectations

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LAAs and MAAs

• Local Area Agreements and Multi-Area Agreements
  more context
• Provide the local area/sub-regional/regional
  expression of ambition
• Every West Midlands LAA will have designated
  targets in relation to educational attainment,
  skills and employment
• The City Region (Birmingham, Coventry and the
  Black Country) is negotiating (with DIUS, DWP and
  CLG) an MAA focused on skills and employment
  (Levels 2, 3,4 and Worklessness)

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Strategic Commissioning

• Are we speaking the same language, let alone the
  same dialect?
• Do you know what the Commissioning agenda is
  from the Local Authority perspective?
• Have you explored the potential significance of
  outcomes-led commissioning and how this might
  play out in the sub-regional groups?
• Linking back to the SNR, what does demand-led
  really mean ie whose needs and wishes should be
  leading the commissioning process students,
  business, the wider (global) economy?
• A Skills and Employment Commissioning Advice

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Councils and Strategic Partnerships

• Who are you dealing with?
• The Council, of course (in fact, at least two
  Councils under SRG arrangements)
• The Children and Young Peoples Trust
• The Local Strategic Partnership
• As well as the new, post-LSC architecture

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Its the economy, stoopid

• So, what is the post-recession landscape going to
  look like?
• Back to the commissioning question what will be
  the skills that are required in the next 10-15
  years?
• This is what those engaged in delivering the SNR
  (and, by association, Raising Expectations) are
  asking.