Directorate of Childrens Services and Learning Working Together to Improve Outcomes for Children, Yo

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Directorate of Childrens Services and
LearningWorking Together to Improve Outcomes for
Children, Young People and Learners TOWARDS A
SOUTHAMPTON SKILLS STRATEGY
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Context

• A skills strategy for Southampton which is
• about aspiration
• about making a difference
• local in context
• Set against
• Major reforms and innovations to transform the
  National
  Skills and Training agenda
• Partnership for Urban South Hampshire (PUSH) -
  Skills Strategy

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The Roles and Responsibilities of the City
Council

• Works strategically with partners to
• impact upon the daily lives of city residents in
  a whole range of different contexts
• address deprivation, regeneration, economic
  development and welfare as well as the lead on
  Childrens Services and Learning
• target key agendas in support of skills

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• The overall aim of Southampton's Skills Strategy
• To work strategically and in partnership to
  enhance the skills of city residents.
• To help, where appropriate, some city residents
  to break out of a cycle of low aspiration and low
  expectation.

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Shape of the Strategy

• No single over arching strategy a number of
  strands targeting specific groups of residents.
• Parents and Young Children
• Young people 11 19
• 19 30
• Residents in work
• Unemployed people
• Older residents

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What the City Council is doing to contribute to
the Skills Agenda for parents and young children

• Family Learning
• Sure Start Childrens Centres skills
  initiative
• Workforce development within early years
  context
• University Year 7 initiative

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What the City Council is doing to contribute to
the 11- 19 agenda

• Leadership and collaboration to implement key
  agendas
• around
• Student entitlement 2013
• Implement the new Diplomas
• Work in partnership on The Aim Higher
  initiative
• The 16 19 and the Raising Expectations
  agenda
• Young people who are NEET
• Youth support

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What the City Council is doing to contribute to
the Skills Agenda for young people 19 plus

• Continue to support young people leaving Local
  Authority care particularly into further and
  higher education
• Support young people with learning difficulties
  and disabilities to access learning and training
• Targeted support for young people who are post 19
  NEETS

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What the City Council is doing to contribute to
the Skills agenda for people in the workforce

• Skills Pledge and the City Councils own
  workforce
• Train to Gain
• Formation of the Skills Development Zone
  concept

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What the City Council is doing to contribute to
the Skills agenda for unemployed people

• Section 106 agreements
• Neighbourhood Learning in Deprived Communities
  initiative
• Targeted support via Skills for Jobs, Local
  Employer Partnerships and other funded
  initiatives
• Support for ex offenders

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What the City Council is doing to contribute to
the Skills agenda for older people

• There remains a huge untapped potential to
  involve older residents in volunteering
  (particularly with younger people)
• New ways of accessing the skills potential of
  older residents within the workforce

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How can we learn from the non-participation
research project

• The project strengthens the holistic needs-driven
  approach to family support
• The Think Family initiative and the No Wrong
  Door approach is an important factor
• The clear message of every agency and
  organisation working to break the cycle of
  poverty by raising the aspirations of families,
  children, grandparents and the community as a
  whole
• Skills, learning and accreditation are
  transformational activities and the research is
  influential in our own human resource planning