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LEACAN 16-19 Funding Transfer Day YPLA Roles
and Responsibilities
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Stuart Gardner Senior Policy Manager LSC/YPLA 1
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Why have we got a new system?
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• To put local authorities in the
• lead to deliver a fully integrated Children's
  Service for all who
• are 0-19, the raising of the participation age
  and the full
• range of 14-19 entitlements.
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  DCSF Feb 08

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Context for Change

• The Governments long term strategy for children
  is to make the UK the best place in the world for
  children and young people to grow up.
• The changes will
• place 0-19 commissioning under the leadership of
  local authorities
• support delivery of the new Participation Age
  and access to the 14-19 entitlements
• strengthen the role of local authorities and
  childrens trust as champions of young people.

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Legislation
From April 2010, responsibility for securing
sufficient education and training provision for
all young people, including those aged 16-19, and
19 25 year olds being assessed for a learning
difficulty and/or disability, as well as
juveniles in custody will pass from the Learning
and Skills Council to local authorities. In
addition, the Young Peoples Learning Agency
(YPLA) will be established as a Non-Departmental
Public Body (NDPB) to support local authorities
discharge their planning and commissioning
functions and to ensure funding and budgetary
control within the system.

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What is the NewSystem?

• local authorities will have responsibility to
  secure an appropriate place in learning for all
  young people
• local authorities will have a duty to
  collaborate with others to do this
• YPLA will be established to ensure budgetary
  control and the delivery of the entitlement
• GO will support and challenge local authorities
  on performance

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How will LAs carryout this task?

• local authorites will analyse demand and supply
  locally through 14-19 Partnership using data sets
  provided by the YPLA (including for
  Apprenticeships and Third Sector)
• they will identify their needs and produce a
  16-19 Commissioning Plan
• they will also commission the support services

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How will LAs carry out this task? (2)

• building on this plan, local authorites will
  come together in Sub-Regional Groups to reflect
  TtL patterns and agree who will act as the lead
  local authority for each provider
• each provider will have a single strategic
  commissioning dialogue with the lead local
  authority
• Regional Planning Groups will consider plans and
  ensure they cohere

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What will others do?

• local authorities will be supported by a
  slimline YPLA which will provide frameworks and
  support to enable the local authority to deliver
• YPLA will also have reserve powers to step in if
  the local authority is unable to deliver or if
  provision for learners is at risk
• GO will work with local authorities to ensure
  that the plans for 14-19 deliver the Governments
  expectations and will support and challenge the
  performance of local authorities to ensure that
  they meet targets and deliver the entitlement.

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The roles and responsibilitiesof local
authorities
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The role of local authorities

• Lead accountability for delivery of 14-19 Reforms
  and RPA
• strategic planners
• lead commissioners
• managing the market

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Strategic Planners

• planning to deliver 14-19 Reforms and RPA
• planning to meet local resident learning needs
• planning to meet collective learning needs
  across travel to learn patterns
• planning to take account of multi-stakeholder
  requirements parents and carers, employer,
  communities and partner agencies
• convening and supporting collaborative working
  through the Local Area Agreements, Childrens
  Trusts and 14-19 Partnerships.

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Lead Commissioners

• meeting the needs of all who learn in local
  authority area though a sustainable provider base
  including (LLDD/YO etc)
• collaboratively agreeing learning required
  across travel to learn patterns by working
  sub-regionally
• working with colleges and other providers as
  strategic planning partners and by securing high
  quality provision through negotiation and
  dialogue.

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Managing the Market

• To ensure
• delivery of RPA and PSAs for Level 2 and 3, NEET
• effective delivery of ECM outcomes for all Young
  People as part of Childrens Trusts
• provider quality is maintained and raised for
  16-19 learning provision.

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The New Landscape
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16-18 providers
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16-18 providers
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16-18 providers
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The roles and responsibilitiesof the YPLA
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What is the YPLA?
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YPLA
Yugoslav Peoples Liberation Army
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• YPLA a non-departmental government body (NDPB or
  quango)
• NDPBs are public bodies that, although not part
  of government departments, carry out functions on
  behalf of sponsor departments, who fund them and
  ensure they are effective.
• NDPBs are, however, independent of the department
  that sponsors them, and are considered to be 'at
  arms length'. This independence allows them to
  focus entirely on their own objectives and make
  unbiased recommendations and decisions.

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YPLA Core Purpose

• use its national and regional presence to
  support and enable local authorities to plan,
  commission and fund a coherent offer to all young
  people whilst ensuring budgetary control
• ensure operational excellence through providing
  nationally consistent funding and commissioning
  frameworks
• place local authorities at the heart of the
  system with clear accountability.

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The role of the YPLA (1)

• ensure budgetary control of the 7 billion being
  transferred to local authorities to enable them
  to carry out their new functions
• provide a national commissioning framework to
  help local authorities commission provision
• produce a national statement of priorities
• manage, maintain and develop the national
  funding formula

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The role of the YPLA (2)

• provide data on participation, attainment and
  economic development in local, sub-regional and
  regional areas to inform commissioning
• co-ordinate the support and provide secretarial
  services for the Regional Planning Group
• work with local authorities to support and
  facilitate the production of commissioning plans
  at local, sub-regional and regional levels to
  ensure their coherence and fit within the
  national budget
• fund and performance manage 400 academies.

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• far from being a stern interventionist
  authority, the YPLA is almost cuddly.
• (Baroness Sharp of Guildford Conservative
  during House of Lords debate on the ASCL Bill, 12
  October 2009)

IYPLA
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The roles and responsibilitiesof the GO
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GO Core Purpose

• Whitehall in the regions working on behalf of
  DCSF to support strategy and delivery at regional
  and local levels
• support and challenge local authorities to
  improve their performance and co-ordinate
  improvement support
• place 16-19 as an integral part of 0-19
  delivery.

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The role of the GO (1)

• provide strategic advice and support to local
  authorities
• provide opportunities for regional and sub
  regional partnership working
• articulate and interpret government policy in
  the region
• support the dissemination of good practice

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The role of the GO (2)

• review and support the achievement of LAA
  targets
• contribute to Comprehensive Area Assessment
• manage the 14-19 Progress Check process with
  local authorities
• contribute to regional and local planning
  through RPG and SRGs.

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Shadow working
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16-18 FUNDING TRANSFER
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Where are we now?
Chair and Chief Executive designate in post from
1 September YPLA Committee established and
met 95 of YPLA posts matched Shadow working
began 5 October Royal Assent to the
Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning
Act 2009
TODAY !
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From now to 31 March 2010
Nov Jan NCF consultation (www.ncfconsultation_at_
lsc.gov.uk) Nov Dec Cross-government review of
financial support for 16-18 year
olds (www.horrendous use Google
!) Nov Statement of Priorities for
2010-11 Nov/Dec ASCL Bill passed Jan Provisional
allocations for 2010/11 March Final allocations
for 2010/11 April New arrangements go live
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Thank You