Learning and Skills Council Skills for Life Quality Initiative 2004 2005 East Midlands 31 May 2005 M

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Learning and Skills Council Skills for Life
Quality Initiative2004 - 2005East Midlands31
May 2005Merillie Vaughan-Huxley OBEPrincipal
Consultant
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Impact on Economic Prosperity-
Contribution to Social Justice -
The Dignity of Self-Improvement
Skills for Life Quality Initiative
Continuing focus for government
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New Trends?
Skills for Life Quality Initiative

• Shift of Skills for Life towards vocational
  learning and as an aspect of employability
• - Emergence of Functional Skills
• Possible reduction of post-16 resources in
  2006-07
• New 3-year quality improvement strategy for the
  sector

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The key levers of 2004-05
Skills for Life Quality Initiative

• Whole organisation approach
• management of change
• Professionalising the workforce

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Overall achievements 2004-05
Skills for Life Quality Initiative

• 8900 facilitator visits / consultations with
  providers
• 2506 providers worked with facilitators to
  develop strategic plans as part of
  whole-organisational approach
• 1724 people attended accredited Leadership
  Management Training programmes

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Overall achievements 2004-05 (cont.)
Skills for Life Quality Initiative

• 521 delegates on training teacher trainers
  programmes
• 3367 participated in accredited training at
  Levels 2, 3 4
• 10,000 delegates attended nationally- and
  locally-developed short courses

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Overall achievements 2004-05 (cont.)
Skills for Life Quality Initiative

• 991 SfL practitioners attended training in Key
  Skills
• 37 sets of modular materials to support
  accreditation at Level 4
• 3000 hits per month on the national web site

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East Midlands achievements 2004-05
Skills for Life Quality Initiative

• 1427 Facilitator visits in
• 47 - ACL
• 29 - FE
• 19 - Prisons
• 68 - UFI / Leardirect
• 124 - WBL (not E2E or ETPs)

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East Midlands achievements 2004-05 (cont.)
Skills for Life Quality Initiative

• Senior manager with responsibility for SfL in
  an additional 48 of providers
• Providers with SfL strategy in place increased
  from 18 to 99
• Steering Groups / process to oversee SfL in
  place is 4 times greater during SfLQI

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East Midlands achievements 2004-05 (cont.)
Skills for Life Quality Initiative

• Level of SfL learner achievement improvement
  targets increased two-fold during SfLQI
• SfL in SAR evidence within vocational areas
  has doubled during SfLQI
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East Midlands achievements 2004-05 (cont.)
Skills for Life Quality Initiative

• MIS data is being used (or planned to be
  used) to monitor SfL in 4 times as many providers
  compared to pre-SfLQI
• 63 of providers have revised their
  observation criteria for teaching / training /
  learning to include reference to SfL. 89 of
  providers have now addressed the issue
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Characteristics of successful regions
Skills for Life Quality Initiative

• A can do approach to improving quality and
  joining up disparate parts of the SfL agenda
• Committed and enthusiastic leadership
• Knowledgeable staff at a range of levels able
  to offer advice LSC RD, LSC Regional Lead, RTO,
  Regional RLF working as a coherent team

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Characteristics of successful regions (cont.)
Skills for Life Quality Initiative

• Understanding of a strategic approach to SfL
• Understanding that quality improvement is a
  process that begins with self-assessment, links
  the various elements of the SfL agenda, and ends
  with improvement in learner achievement and
  inspection grades

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Skills for Life Quality Initiative 20052006
Skills for Life Quality Initiative

• The 8 National Priorities
• Whole organisational approach (Process)
• Embedding Skills for Life across the organisation
• Development of CPD Framework, including Advice
  Guidance
• Leadership and management training

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Skills for Life Quality Initiative 20052006
Skills for Life Quality Initiative

• The 8 National Priorities (cont.)
• Skills for Life and Key skills convergence
  programme
• E-learning training and development
• RLF and Facilitator Network (Regionally
  determined)
• Dissemination of good practice and access to
  information on CPD via web site.

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Possible new themes?
Skills for Life Quality Initiative

• Regions in driving seat
• continuation of move away from delivery of top
  down / one-size-fits-all to responsiveness to
  regional needs set within a national framework
•   Capacity for self-improvement
•   to identify areas for growth and development
  further development of infrastructure and
  joining-up SfL agenda
• strategic leadership on quality

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Possible new themes? (cont.)
Skills for Life Quality Initiative

• Ability to join up the SfL agenda

Policy
Strategic Plan
QI
Value added / quality improvement
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Possible new themes? (cont.)
Skills for Life Quality Initiative

• Close the circle on staff training and
  development to ensure impact on quality
• staff training on its own doesnt work
•   coaching / mentoring to ensure those trained
  are supported to use their skills in their
  organisation