Workforce Development

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WorkforceDevelopment

• An Overview
• Campbell Livingston
• Operations Manager
• Active Surrey Sports Partnership

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Workforce Development

• What does it mean?

• Development of staff employed in sport
  activity jobs
• Everyone from Volunteers through to Professional
  staff
• Coaches, Teachers, Instructors
• Officials
• Governance Administration
• Development
• Operations Management

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Workforce Development

• Why is it important?

• Already current skills gaps / skills shortages
• Massive growth in output and employment forecast
  over the next 8 years
• Realisation that workforce must be developed to
  support the 1 p.a. increase in participation
  London 2012 outcomes

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Workforce Development

• Massive Growth in Output Employment

• Currently 88,900 employees 31 rise to
  117,000 by 2014
• Currently 68 are jobs in sport and recreation
• 28 of companies have current staff with skills
  gaps - the skills most in need of improvement are
  basic computer / IT skills, communications and
  sport specific technical skills
• Half of all employers have had vacancies this
  year
• 37 of vacancies were hard-to-fill, the
  majority attributed to skills shortages (lack of
  skills, qualifications or experience)
• ( Across Active Leisure Learning Sector)

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Workforce Development

• Coach (incl. Community Sports Coach)
• Assistant Coach
• Activity Leader
• Outdoor Activities Leader/Instructor Fitness
  Instructor (e.g. aerobics, GP referrals)
• Personal trainer
• Sports / Leisure Development Officer
• Sports / Leisure Development Manager
• PDM / SSCo / PLT
• Youth / Elderly / Ethnic minority worker
• Sports Science support (e.g. physiotherapist,
  dietician, nutritionist)
• Official (e.g. judge, referee, marshal, steward)
• Tutor / Assessor / Mentor / Verifier

•  General / Duty / Operations Manager
• Marketing / Customer Service
• Membership Manager
• Assistant Manager
• Financial Manager / Accountant
• Administrative / Office / Clerical staff
• Recreation / Sports Assistant / Lifeguard
•  Club Chairman / Secretary / Treasurer
• Sports Club Manager / Fund Raiser
• Equity / Welfare Officer
• Team Captain
• Volunteer Coordinator / Manager
• County Director / Manager

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Workforce Development

• National Drivers

• Sport England are committed to providing a
  community sport legacy to the 2012 Olympic and
  Paralympic Games
• SkillsActive have developed a Sector Skills
  Agreement (SSA) setting out national priority
  skills issues that employers have identified as
  critical to ensuring the future growth and
  sustainability of the sector
• The SSA is also an agreement for DfES, LSC, DTI,
  RDA, etc, as to how they will allocate their
  funding to the sector

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Workforce Development

• Workforce Development Planning

• The purpose of a county plan is to identify and
  address the training, development and educational
  needs of the current and future workforce to
  deliver the key aims and objectives of the Active
  Surrey Sports Partnership and its members
• Need to know which jobs are required at which
  level in order to support growth
• Collating information thats already been
  collected locally, regionally and nationally and
  setting up a process to collect outstanding
  information

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Workforce Development

• By March 2007, if we can work together to
  produce a robust, credible WFD plan we will be
  able to access our share of
• 5m regional Building Capacities lottery cash
• 3m regional European Social Fund money
• ?m county Learning Skills Council funding

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Community Investment FundBuilding Capacities

• What is it?

• Up to 5m of Sport England lottery funding
• Funding allocated solely to Workforce
  Development
• Applications will be made annually through the
  Active Surrey Sports Partnership over the next 3
  years
• Training Needs Analyses (TNA) will identify
  specific training needs of individuals and we can
  pull down funding (NB partner funding required,
  approx 60)
• Process still being finalised but all linked to
  submission of a Surrey Workforce Development plan

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European Social FundOn Your Marks

• What is it?

• Another 6m regional investment in Workforce
  Development, 2.8m allocated to Sport, the rest
  to Construction
• Funding is to be used to wholly pay for training
  (mainly NVQs) and, in some cases, child care,
  sports kit, travel expenses, etc
• Potential to use funding to support county WFD
  Plan

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European Social FundOn Your Marks

• What is it?

• Set number of learners to be identified and
  access training with the hope to progress them
  into FE/HE, volunteering or paid employment in
  the industry
• All learners have initial needs assessments
  (basic skills)
• 7 strands of funding
• Coaching (210 learners) Disability (75)
• Management Leadership (100) Volunteers (100)
• Women (250) Elite Athletes (90)
• NEET involvement

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European Social FundOn Your Marks

• What do we need to do?

• Identify learners, some may already be in your
  programmes
• Look out for application forms and material -
  publicise
• For more info, visit www.sussexdowns.ac.uk

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Learning Skills Council

• What is it?

• The Learning Skills Council is responsible for
  funding and planning education and training for
  over 16-year-olds in England
• Just last week it was announced that the LSC
  will now give priority to funding sport, with a
  particular emphasis to coaching, and the
  Apprenticeship in Sporting Excellence
• Potential for a lot of money to pay for adult
  education courses, particularly UK Coaching
  Certificate (UKCC) awards levels 1 to 3
• Discussions are taking place between
  SkillsActive and the LSC to investigate whether
  sports funding could be linked solely to county
  sports partnership WFD plans i.e., not in plan
  no funding

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Learning Skills Council

• What do we need to do?

• Ensure that all courses are planned with Active
  Surrey Sports Partnership so that you can access
  the potential funding
• Speak to Sarah Williams, Coaching Development
  Officer on 01483 518957 or sarah.williams_at_surreycc
  .gov.uk

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Workforce Development

• Whats been happening?

• Training Needs Analyses of SDOs
• NGBs LAs talking to clubs through Clubmark /
  ASCA to identify coach requirements
• TNAs of Community Sports Coaches / inducted AS
  coaches
• TNAs of County Mentors
• TNAs of PE Teachers, SSCos, PLTs
• SYG Officials requirements
• Regional Research
• Club audits / affiliations
• SCC leading on WFD for Family Services
• Audit of local, county awards for workforce

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Workforce Development

• Whats been happening?

• National Governing Bodies (NGBs) are also being
  engaged and supported to promote individual WFD
  plans to support their national whole sport / one
  stop plans
• These national plans will focus on national and
  regional employees and volunteers
• Each NGB will also have to input into each
  county WFD plan to address needs of local
  workforce and to benefit from lottery, ESF or LSC
  funding. For example, to support, coach
  education courses, this will focus on what sort
  of training or qualifications are needed and at
  which level

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Workforce Development

• What should we do?

• Start thinking about your local workforce and
  assess their needs use the SkillsActive TNA
  template
• TNAs for ALL staff incl facility staff,
  administrators support staff
• Engage with private companies (coaching, health
  clubs, physios, consultants, etc)
• Work with Safeguarding Boards (LSCBs) equity
  organisations in order to meet safeguarding and
  equity training needs
• Imperative that all voluntary organisations,
  local authorities, education providers, health
  agencies and private companies involved in sport
  complete the Workforce Questionnaire which is
  coming out soon

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Workforce Development

• What should we do?

• Organisational Needs Analysis with your
  current team can you achieve your aims?
• What does your organisation need to continue at
  current levels or in order to expand?
• We need to make sure there is a system in place
  to collect information about future needs of the
  local community we must embed TNAs into ALL
  organisations to maintain an accurate and up to
  date picture of our workforce needs so we can
  effectively plan and target resources to meet
  these needs
• Start thinking about funding we require 21
  funding for CIF how can we maximise existing
  funding and find new sources?

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Workforce Development

• Contacts

• County Lead _at_ Active Surrey Sports Partnership
• Campbell Livingston campbell.livingston_at_surreycc.
  gov.uk
• 01483 518954 www.activesurrey.com
• Regional Lead _at_ SkillsActive
• James Emmett james.emmet_at_skillsactive.com
• 07841 743203 www.skillsactive.com