NCCLSC Spring Conference Thank you to our sponsors

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NCC/LSC Spring Conference Thank you to our
sponsors
Soon to be known as
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Helping employers connect with good training
providers
Jas Dhillon Employer Responsive Director LSC
National Office
NCC Spring Conference Wednesday 01 April
2009 Hilton Metropole, Birmingham NEC
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Agenda

• The Training market
• Update on policy developments
• Focus on the Training Quality Standard
• Supporting employer choice the Employers Guide
  to Training Providers
• Your views sought

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The LSCs response to Leitch

• The power of choice
• The Leitch Report makes bold recommendations for
  radical change right across the skills spectrum.
  We need to be determined and imaginative in our
  response, with shared action from government,
  employers andindividuals, each taking increased
  responsibility and building on the successes of
  recent years.
• Our proposal is simple place the power to
  choose in the hands of the individual and the
  employer, and empower and enable the best of
  providers to engage and excite more learners and
  employers.
• Delivering World-class Skills in a Demand-led
  System LSC 2007

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Employer training market in numbers Key figures

Source NESS http//readingroom.lsc.gov.uk/lsc/Nat
ional/nat-nessurvey2007keyfindings-may08.pdf
Source NESS
Note Figures are indicative and projected for
2009
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Measuring our response to employers in numbers

Source NESS
Source NESS, TtG and FfE employer surveys (2009
data available Sept 09)
Source NESS http//readingroom.lsc.gov.uk/lsc/Nati
onal/nat-nessurvey2007keyfindings-may08.pdf
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Employer training market in numbers Too much
choice?

Note Figures are indicative
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Employer Responsiveness Policy response

• Demand led funding introduced
• NSA expansion
• FE innovation fund launched
• Training Quality Standard the Framework for
  Excellence
• Apprenticeship expansion Vacancy Matching
  Service

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Employer Responsiveness National Skills
Academies

• Update
• Employer-led centres of excellence
• 16 NSAs 11 open for business 5 in planning
• Plans to launch 4 more this year (2009) and 25-30
  by 2012
• Follow progress at www.nationalskillsacademy.co.u
  k

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Employer Responsiveness FE Innovation Fund

• Update
• Launched summer 2008
• FE to become providers of Innovation not just
  skills
• 2008-9 trial year then expansion?
• Follow progress at www.lsc.gov.uk/innovation

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Employer Responsiveness Framework for Excellence

• Update
• Compulsory for LSC funded providers only (3,000)
• Year 1 2008/9
• Overall provider ratings published each year
• Contains an Employer Responsiveness dimension
• Consisting of Quality (survey) Quantity
  (volume) PIs
• Providers graded by employers opinion
• Those with TQS automatic Outstanding
• Minimum levels of performance integration

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Employer Responsiveness Training Quality
Standard

• Update
• Formally launched 08 May by Skills Minister
• National promotional campaign started
• Part of UKCES simplification plan
• 100 of the best Training Providers have
  achieved over 200 organisations have registered
• Several large employers (i.e. BMW, British Gas
  etc) have Certification.
• Available to any provider, (HE, FE etc)
• Provider support programme launched
• Accreditation valued but not mandated by the LSC
  
• New assessment bodies, regulated by UKAS appointed

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Employer Responsiveness Quality indicators in
context
NSA
16 centres of Excellence and development
Training Quality Standard
100 proven training providers some experts in
their sector
Framework For Excellence
Annual ratings of 3,000 providers dimension
overall grades
OfSTED
10,000 providers subject to inspection on 1-6
year cycle
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Supporting Employer Choice

• How do employers choose training providers?
• Own knowledge / experience organisational or
  personal
• Recommendation / quality search (Broker /
  OfSTED / TQS!)
• Clean search (web or yellow pages etc)

Source LSC/TQS research with 600 employers
2006-2008 and LSC EGTP research 2005
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Training Providers in the UK

Note Figures are indicative
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Employer Responsiveness Training Quality
Standard (recap)

• Concerned with identifying quality as employers
  would see it, not creating another set of funding
  or audit hurdles.
• Joint SSC LSC development consolidated
  approach
• Isnt an endorsement of everything organisations
  does were looking at training solutions
  delivered to employers,
• Independent EFQM based standard to highlight the
  best
• Available to any provider, regardless of type
• UK Accreditation service managed process to ISO
  standard
• But very difficult to achieve

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Supporting Employer Choice Employers Guide to
Training

• Employers guide to Training Providers
  www.employersguide.org.uk
• Search portal and general employer advice pages
• Uses the UKs biggest database of provision (NLD)
• 1,000,000 courses and 10,000 providers (UKRLP)
• NLD receives 5m searches a year employers and
  individual
• Employers able to leave feedback ratings in SW
  since 2005
• However take up of this facility is limited and
  it wont be rolled-out nationally in current
  format

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Supporting Employer Choice Employers Guide to
Training

• Change from randomised / location returns to
  Quality Returns
• Using Training Quality Standard / FfE grades
• Refer to NSAs and Apprenticeships were relevant
• Give employers a choice of approved Training
  Providers and services that meet their criteria
• Will compliment work being delivered by UKCES on
  the Talentmap.

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Barriers to Training?
Formal training doesnt deliver skills I need
Previous training hasnt delivered!
Its too expensive
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I just dont know much about whats available.
My staff may leave or start asking for more
money.
Its going to be too disruptive
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And the survey said..
Source Skills for the Workplace Employer
Perspectives Evidence Report 1 (Nov 2008)
UK
Commission for Employment Skills (s3.4 Barriers
to Training - Pg.18)
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Market demand?
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• Never or not usually have difficulty finding
  training
• Sometimes, often, or very difficult finding
  training

Source telephone survey, 370 SMEs, Apr 07
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Putting it all together

• FFE assessment
• Employer Guide to Training
• TQS certification
• National Skills Academies

• Train to Gain brokers
• Demand led funding
• The skills pledge

TQS
TQS
Providers
Employers
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Questions / comments
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Useful Links

• FE innovation
• www.lsc.gov.uk/innovation
• Training Quality Standard www.trainingqualitystan
  dard.co.uk
• National Skills Academies www.nationalskillsacade
  my.co.uk
• World Class Skills for training providers
  www.qiaemployerled.org.uk/
• Jas Dhillon jas.dhillon_at_lsc.gov.uk

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