SkillsActive the Sector Skills Council for Active Leisure and Learning

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SkillsActive the Sector Skills Council for
Active Leisure and Learning

• Steve Mitchell
• Entry to the Workforce Manager Technical Unit
• stephen.mitchell_at_skillsactive.com
• 020 7632 2012 and 07843 027802

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SkillsActive the Sector Skills Council for
Active Leisure and Learning

• Established by Employers
• Regulated, Licensed (October 2003) and jointly
  funded by Government (SSDA) and the industry
• Charged by Government on a UK basis to meet the
  Sector Skills and Productivity challenges for our
  industry
• Strategic body at the centre of skills for our
  industry
• The industry voice with government
• Covering public, private and voluntary
  organisations in sport and recreation, health and
  fitness, outdoors and adventure, playwork and
  caravan sectors

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SECTOR PROFILE / CHARACTERISTICS

• Contributed 8.6 billion to UK economy in 2004
• The sector employs 634,000 paid employees in 5
  sub-sectors
• Whole sector employment is evenly distributed
  across UK
• Sector includes paid workers, self-employment and
  unpaid voluntary work in over 36,500 public,
  private, voluntary and not-for-profit
  organisations
• 5.8 million volunteers in sport in England

Source Experian Business Strategies, 2005 and
Sport England
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SSC Initiatives

• Sector Skills Agreements
• National Skills Academy
• Local/Regional/National Agendas (RDA, LSC, Sport
  England)
• Employer and Training Provider Networks
• Skills Passports Active Passport
• Work with HEIs, private providers and FE Sector
• Apprenticeships Entitlement (Leitch)
• Young Apps and the AASE programme
• UK Coaching Certificate
• Register of Exercise Professionals
• SkillsActiveCareers

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Sport in London (LMI)

• 59,000 paid workers.rising to 76,000 by 2014
• Coaches/Development Officers/Activity
  Leaders/Administrators/Sports Professionals
• 3,400 organisations
• County Sports Partnerships/Professional
  Clubs/Leisure Centres/NGBs/Facilities
• 750,000 volunteers
• Officials/Coaches/Support Staff/Stewards

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Sport in London (SSA)

• 58 of organisations in London have had vacancies
  (5,840) in the last 12 months
• 22 of companies in the region have had hard to
  fill vacancies in the last 12 months
• 38 of organisations with vacancies found them
  hard to fill
• Hard to fill vacancies account for 1 of
  employment and 42 of all vacancies
• 16 of organisations had skill shortage vacancies
  whilst 74 of organisations with hard-to-fill
  vacancies attributed them to a skill shortage

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Sport in London (SSA)

• Lacking Skills Gaps
• Communication
• Management
• Team Working
• Lacking Technical Skills
• Lifeguarding/1st Aid/Health and Safety
• Sports Leadership
• Pool Plant/Operational/Duty Management
• Coaching and Officiating
• Customer Service Skills

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The South East Picture of Active Leisure

• Contributed 1.38 billion to the South East
  economy in 2004
• The sector employs over 88,900 paid employees in
  5 sub-sectors
• The South East accounts for 19 of sector active
  leisure employment in England
• Sector includes paid workers, self-employment and
  unpaid voluntary work in over 5,700 public,
  private, voluntary and not-for-profit
  organisations
• The sector is reliant on volunteers. However,
  estimates vary from 50,000 to 500,000

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The South East Picture of Active Leisure

• Paid employment in the South East will grow by
  31 to over 117,000 people by 2014 (modest
  forecast)
• Other forecasts suggest our sectors workforce
  may double by 2020 owing to the increase in
  participation
• 28,000 new paid jobs are expected (min) to 2014
  (annual growth of around 3).
• There is also a high level of staff turnover (ave
  14) in the sector. By 2014, over 145,000 paid
  jobs will need to be filled as a result of people
  leaving their jobs.  Therefore 172,395 jobs will
  need filling.

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Active Leisure Skills Gaps and Shortages

• 52 of establishments report a vacancy
• 37 of sector organisations with a vacancy found
  them hard-to-fill
• 61 of organisations with a hard-to-fill vacancy
  attributed it to a skills shortage reasons (lack
  of experience, qualifications or skills required)
• 12 of organisations report skill shortage
  vacancies
• 32 considered they had a skills gap.

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Skills Requirements in the Region

• Communication
• Problem solving
• Team working
• Initiative

Growth areas Sport recreation - coaching -
sports development Health fitness - GP
referrals - physical activity Outdoors -
education - training development.
Technical skills (coaching, teaching,
instructing) Management Leadership.
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Young Apprenticeships

• New DfES initiative started in September 2004
• Aimed at 14 to 16 year old high achievers
• 2 year programme funding (LSC) 4k per
  individual
• 3 days a week in mainstream education following
  core National Curriculum subjects
• 2 days a week in college and/or workplace
• Level 2 vocational qualification as the core
  offer
• NVQ Level 1 for structuring the work experience
• Other smaller L1/L2 qualifications as options
  (e.g. JSLA)
• 50 days minimum spent in work placement
• DfES led DCMS supported YST partners

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YA in Sports Management, Leadership and Coaching

• Started in Cohort 2 September 2005
• 2 partnerships (50 pupils)
• Cohort 3 September 2006
• 13 partnerships (350 pupils) - 11 new
  partnerships across England
• Cohort 4 September 2007
• 48 partnerships (1000 pupils) 37 new
  partnerships across England
• Partnerships identified by SkA or themselves or
  YST
• Each partnership contains a range of schools, FE
  or WBL providers, EBPs, LEAs, Connexions, 14/19
  Leads, employers

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Apprenticeships (L2 and L3)

• Cover all of the Sectors main job roles
• Fitness Instructors and Personal Trainers
  Operations Assistants/Lifeguards and Duty
  Managers Coaches Playworkers Activity Leaders
  and Outdoors Instructors Sports Development
  Officers Safety Officers
• Around 4000 apprentices currently in learning
  in England
• Majority of learners are working in the fitness
  industry supported by Fitness First/David
  Lloyd/DC Leisure
• Current completion rates are around 55
• Range of providers/partners include FE colleges
  CoVEs private providers NGBs CSPs

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The Apprenticeship Entitlement

• Leitch 400,000 on Apprenticeships in 2013/14
• Commitment from SSCs to address 5 key priorities
• Equality and Diversity
• The Apprenticeship Blueprint
• Completion Rates
• Progression and UCAS Tariffs
• Marcomms
• SkillsActive commitment to go from 4000 starts
  p.a. to 13000 starts p.a.

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AASE

• AASE has been designed to meet the needs of young
  people (aged 16-18) who have the realistic
  potential to achieve excellence in their sport
  and are seeking to perform at the highest level
  as their main career goal
• Notionally taking two-years to complete, the AASE
  framework will provide for the first time a
  structured national training and development
  route, across all sports, for talented young
  athletes, many of whom may go to represent their
  country on the world stage

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AASE where are we now??

• AASE currently being delivered across Premier
  League and Football Leagues Golf Rugby Union
  Cricket Aquatics and Tennis
• SkillsActive and Sussex Downs College in Brighton
  have successfully bid for 900k ESF for Olympic
  and Paralympic sports and AASE aquatics,
  tennis, athletics, triathlon and judo
• We will be looking for other sports to
  incorporate AASE into their education programmes
  in the future and welcome discussions with any
  interested partie
• 2000 athletes on programme!!
• LSC Investment of 6m per annum

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SkillsActiveCareers

• To be THE first point of contact for any
  individual, employer, or organisation enquiring
  about Careers in our Sector
• To improve the careers advice available to both
  current and prospective employees in our sector
  across the UK
• To work with Key Partners and Employers to ensure
  the right messages and the right advice is being
  offered
• To increase awareness of our employers, our
  relevant qualifications, relevant skills and our
  sector as a whole
• To raise awareness of SkillsActive as a SSC

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What do we have available??

• SkillsActiveCareers
• Virtual Careers Advisor Ask Dougie
• www.skillsactive.com/careers
• Learndirect UfI free helpline
• Job Profiles and Case studies
• CD Rom/Brochure/Freebies
• Technical advice
• Employer/Key Partner Links
• Job Websites

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Labour Market Information

• Cross Sector Project (DfES.DIUS and SSDA and SfB
  Network)
• Updating, utilising and maximising the
  effectiveness of the NGRF at the IER
• www.guidance-research.org
• Workshops
• Core Offer
• Partnerships with JCP, NextStep, T2G, Connexions,
  VT Careers etc
• Web Presence, Case Studies, Job Profiles

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Useful Websites

• www.skillsactive.com
• www.skillsactive.com/careers
• www.exerciseregister.org
• www.cito.org.uk
• www.outdoor-learning.org
• www.baha.org.uk
• www.jobswithballs.com
• www.leisurejobs.com
• www.leisureopportunities.co.uk
• www.bluedome.co.uk

• www.sportengland.org
• www.sportscoachuk.org
• www.uksport.gov.uk
• www.ssda.org.uk
• www.sportsleadersuk.org
• www.ilam.co.uk
• www.isrm.co.uk
• www.ccpr.org.uk
• www.nasd.uk.com
• www.bases.org.uk
• www.london2012.org.uk