What did you have for breakfast this morning

1
What did you have for breakfast this morning?

• Coffee on the train
• Full English
• Toast
• Cereal
• Porridge
• Other

2
Which area/region do you represent?

• London
• South East
• East
• Other

3
Which organisation/sector do you represent?

• Higher Education
• Further Education
• NHS
• Aimhigher
• Training provider
• Other

4
Widening participation is fundamentally an issue
of

• Social justice
• Economic efficiency
• Community cohesion
• Educational fairness

5
Hard-to-reach groups and individuals pose a
particular challenge to

• The educational curriculum
• Teachers and lecturers
• Those who manage educational institutions

6
Foundation degrees are ideal for

• Those who want a faster journey to qualification
• Those who want to combine study with work
  experience
• Those who have encountered difficulty with purely
  academic study

7
The greatest obstacle to achieving widening
participation in HE is

• The structure and location of our HE educational
  provision
• The quality and range of pre-HE access provision
• The cost of participating in education

8
The new 14-19 diploma in Society, Health and
Development is

• A general vocational alternative to academic
  study
• A hybrid qualification offering multiple routes
  to different professions in the personal care
  sector
• A new form of on-the-job training

9
What is the best rate achieved by any region in
recruiting under-represented groups into higher
education?

• London
• South East
• North East
• East
• Scotland
• Wales

10
What do you believe are the key barriers to
developing the future workforce and widening
participation (funding is taken as a given)

• Lack of coordinated planning between employers,
  planners and funding bodies
• Lack of good, clear IAG information for recruits
• Poor image of the health sector as an employer
• Lack of joined up opportunities that offer both
  career routes and parallel qualifications to
  staff wanting to develop their careers
• Lack of clarity about the numbers and types of
  new roles needed for the future

11
What would you find most helpful to widen
participation in your area (funding taken as a
given)

• Good labour market intelligence
• More collaboration between employers and partner
  organisations ie. education and funding
  organisations
• A clear consensus about future workforce
  development needs and an agreed action plan to
  implement change
• Access to support, change management tools and
  examples of good practice

12
What would you think the key drivers would be to
a manager in health to engage with the widening
participation agenda?

• Achieving targets?
• Improving quality of care to patients?
• To improve the quality and diversity of their
  workforce?
• Because its a good thing to do?

13
What do you think is the greatest opportunity for
developing widening participation in the future
in health?

• Creation of foundation trusts?
• Increasing numbers of health providers?
• Increasing variety of roles emerging?
• Need for trusts to reduce staffing costs and
  improve productivity?

14
The gender balance in our workforce is strongly
skewed to women. Does that matter and to what
extent is this an issue to be addressed?

• Does not matter
• Quite important but more important to recruit
  those with the right skills and qualities
• Yes there is a need for positive action to
  address this

15
Is the Skills Escalator operating effectively for
all staff in the NHS?

• Never heard of it
• No, its designed for staff working at Band 4 and
  upwards (academic level 3 and up)
• No, its designed for staff working at Bands 1
  3 (academic levels 0-2)

16
Activities to widen participation in health and
social care should be mainly focussed on

• Young people
• Those in lower skilled jobs in the existing
  workforce
• Both
• Neither

17
Apprenticeships for young people aged 16 to 24
have a key role to play in widening participation
in the health and social care workforce

• Strongly agree
• Agree
• Disagree
• Strongly disagree

18
The best route to higher level professional
employment in health and social care is via

• A Levels
• Vocational qualifications ie. National Diplomas
• Work-based qualifications ie. NVQs and
  apprenticeships
• The new 14-19 diplomas

19
Foundation degrees are appropriate for which
sections of the health and social care workforce?

• All the professions
• Only for the professions allied to medicine
• Only for the lower skilled roles
• No one