Skills, Employment and Education Framework Delivering the Golden Opportunities

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Skills, Employment and Education Framework
Delivering the Golden Opportunities

• Sharon Pickering
• Director Regional Skills Partnership
• Yorkshire The Humber

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Regional Skills partnership

• Strategic Purpose is to bring together the key
  agencies and
• sectors in the region
• to work in partnership
• to give collective leadership to the skills
  agenda in Yorkshire and the Humber
• to improve skills outcomes and productivity on a
  demand-led basis for the region, aligned with the
  Regional Economic Strategy (RES).

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Put Simply

• A response to Leitch for the region
• Demand led skills provision (sectors,
  employers, individuals)
• A framework by which partners can coordinate
  action
• Align investment (mainstream ESF) in skills
  through strategic commissioning
• Meeting the aims of the RES
• Economic growth and included communities

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Regional Skills Priorities

• Tackling worklessness by supporting individuals
  into training and jobs.
• Fact Yorkshire and the Humber has a high number
  of economically inactive groups, including lone
  parents, BME and older workers (26 working age
  population)
• Increase participation of 16 19 year olds in
  education/work based learning.
• Fact Yorkshire Humber has the largest
  percentage of NEET in England which are
  significantly at risk of long term economic
  inactivity

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Regional Skills Priorities (cont)

• Increase proportion of people with skills needed
  for employment and support individuals to
  progress to include Higher Level Skills.
• Fact The qualifications of the population of
  Yorkshire Humber are below the national
  average, with a significant percentage with no
  qualifications. Whilst the focus may have been on
  tackling basic skills and up to level 2, to
  support individual progression and upskill the
  regional labour force, there is an increasing
  business demand for develop HLS.

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• ESF Strategic Framework
• Skills Vision to support the demands of the
  economy
• Skills intelligence
• 14 19 agenda
• Supporting sectors
• Supporting localities and sub regions
• Olympics

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• Yorkshire Gold
• Analysis of skills required to support the idea
  of gaining from the 2012 legacy
• Olympic Train Trip
• Framework for Action
• Skills workshop
• Skills Task Group virtual network

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Yorkshire Humber Framework

• Phase 1 Scoping work to identify the extent to
  which skills, employment and education issues cut
  across the Yorkshire Gold Strategy and associated
  action plans.
• Phase 2 Determining the structure for a skills
  task group and working with the RSP to agree
  governance and outline Terms of Reference.
• Phase 3 Consulting with partners in the region
  to develop a Framework for Action

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Yorkshire Humber Framework Outcomes

• Golden skills, education and
• employment interventions that will help
• Yorkshire become more
• Active
• Competitive
• Innovative
• Attractive
• Inclusive

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Yorkshire Humber Framework Priorities

• Upskill the regions sports, health and fitness
  workforce to widen participation in sports and
  promote active lifestyles
• Develop procurement skills to encourage more
  regional businesses to tender for major events
  and public sector contracts
• Maximise opportunities of WorldSkills 2011 / UK
  Skills competitions to foster skilled and
  competitive young people
• Ensure adequate investment in elite coaching
  skills / training camp workforce to provide
  world-class services to athletes / competitors
• Use of sport and culture within educational /
  learning environments to encourage more people to
  succeed, achieve and participate
• Enhance higher level skills, specifically
  leadership and management skills, in the region
  inspired by 2008/2012 Games successes

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Cont..

• Use 2012 to raise awareness of skills, education
  and employment opportunities in 2012-related
  sectors
• Use 2012 to raise levels of interest in, and
  development of, enterprise skills in Yorkshire
  and the Humber
• Improve customer service skills in Yorkshire and
  the Humber
• Invest in major events workforce skills
  development (paid and volunteering opportunities)
  including Cultural Olympiad talent development
• Derive long term benefits for people who are
  socially excluded or disadvantaged (to include
  rural disadvantage, those remote from the labour
  market, returning to work, long term unemployed,
  workless / incapacity benefit claimants and those
  in ethnic minority communities) improving
  employability skills where they are needed most
• Change perceptions of disability and diversity in
  general using the catalyst of the Paralympic
  Games

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Skills, Employment and Education 2012 Core Group
and Network

• The purpose of the Yorkshire and the Humber 2012
  Skills Employment and Education Core Group (and
  Network) will be to ensure that the region
  creates a lasting skills, employment and
  education legacy as a result of the London 2012
  Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, including the
  Cultural Olympiad.

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Role of Further Education

• Consider the Framework for action and identify
  how you may work within it to support the
  delivery of the legacy
• Specifically
• Raise awareness of WorldSkills and talent
  spot
• Increase achievement / attainment through use of
  sport / culture / volunteering
• Connect opportunities from the Games with your
  learners
• Use the Games as a tool for engagement
• Involvement in the PVP
• Training Camps
• Increased use of your sports facilities
• Increasing engagement of young people / NEET
  groups
• 2012- linked curriculum ideas and resources
• Work in partnership with other key
  agencies/organisations
• Join the Virtual Network

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Any Questions?

• Contact details
• Sharon.Pickering_at_lsc.gov.uk
• or
• alan_at_skyblueresearch.co.uk