WORK AND SKILLS PLANS – DEVELOPING THE

GUIDANCEHelen Payne, Donna-Louise Hurrell, Lizzie

Crowley

12 November 2009

HELEN PAYNE FEBRUARY 2010

WORK AND SKILLS PLANS IDeA guidance

• Interim plans April 2010

• Full, published plans April 2011

• Local Plans

• Sub-regional plans

TYPES OF PLAN

FUNCTIONS • Delivery Plan for

LAAs/MAAs• Responding to local need• Integrating local and

national services, delivering total place

• Integrating employment and skills

• Influencing regional strategies

• Providing the basis for commissioning

• Making the case for devolution

PROCESS• Produce through existing structures – partners

may be accountable to scrutiny

• Engage employers, third sector, delivery partners

• Link economic development, adult skills and 14-19 commissioning, housing, health

• Confirm governance arrangements, relationship with ESB, employers

• Feed through to regional skills strategies

• Present to GOs, RIEPs, National Worklessness Forum Advisory Panel

• Sectoral structure, enterprise and innovation, factors impacting on business growth, land and premises – availability and constraints, employer needs

People and communities – labour supply analysis

• Demography, occupational structure, earnings, employment/ unemployment rates

• Benefit claimant groups,

• Local skills levels, attainment, skills gaps, match with demand,

• Economic inclusion

Worklessness assessment guidance

EVIDENCE Economic and spatial trends

Business and enterprise – labour demand

PROVISION MAPPING• Mainstream employment programmes

• Discretionary local programmes

• Apprenticeships, train to gain, skills for jobs

• 14-19 provision including for NEET reduction

• Basic skills provision – FE, Adult and Community learning, Train to Gain

• Level 2 – FE, Train to Gain, Adult Apprenticeships, ESF

• Higher Level skills

ANALYSIS • Identifying priorities, vision,

objectives

• Action and resource planning

• Identify gaps, rationalise provision

• Make the case for discretionary funding

QUESTIONS