NEW HORIZONS

The Learning Partnership

July 2010

Helen France

A New World – What?Three significant communications recently:

1) Revised Grant Letter from Vince Cable to the Skills Funding Agency has set out Government’s goals and ambitions for the sector:

“….. Skills are an essential part of creating an advanced and highly competitive economy”

The key ambitions are:

• Supporting progression and strengthening the supply of technician level skills, particularly through Level 3 Apprenticeships

• Reducing the number of 18-14 year olds who are NEET

• Creating opportunities for the unemployed to get the skills needed for work readiness and sustainable employment

• Inform and empower individuals and employers through independent careers guidance and the development of Lifelong Learning Accounts

• Increased participation in adult and community learning

A New World – How?2) John Hayes MP announced a range of freedoms and flexibilities for

colleges and training providers:

These arrangements are just the start and will free up colleges and training providers to deliver a responsive and flexible offer to learners and employers as required by Vince Cable

They include:

• Bringing budgets together for post 19 provision into one pot, a single budget line

• Removing Summary Statements of Activity, replacing them with standard cash profiles, colleges and providers determine what to spend the money on to meet the needs of employers and learners

• Reduction of in-year reconciliation (none for colleges and quarterly for providers)

Exempt from the single pot – 16-18 Apprenticeships, Offender Learning, Programmes for the Unemployed, ESF and Adult Safeguarded Learning Programmes

A New World – Challenge?

3) George Osborne announced his emergency budget

All this must be achieved against a backdrop of reducing public spending in future years, £17 billion reduction in Departmental spending by 2014/15

This is an average of 25% across Departments and BIS is big

The main focus is to limit impact on front line services so much of savings will come from infrastructure changes

We will know the real impact following the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) in the Autumn but we do know that this is going to be hugely challenging

A New World – The Agency?

The policies of the new Government have changed the role of the Skills Funding Agency and the nature of our work

Our focus in on funding and regulation (but very soft touch) - We will want to know providers are meeting the needs of employers and learners

Our focus is on supporting the sector to achieve more for less

Our focus is to limit our intervention and let the market “get on”

Our focus is to intervene by exception

Our focus is to let the sector assume much greater responsibility and autonomy … for planning, prioritising, quality and self regulation

NEW HORIZONS

The Learning Partnership

July 2010

Mark Williams

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ESF Overview

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Current Programme• Over £48m has been contracted to date

• 30 projects in both priorities

• Over 35,000 participants to be engaged

• Basic Skills and ESOL to Full Qualifications Levels 2, 3 and 4

• 12 projects are supported under priority 4 to a total of £13.5m

• 18 projects under priority 5 to a total of £35.3m, inc: R2R £3.3m

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LP projects (P4)

Project Name

Contract

Start Date

Contract End Date

Position in

Contract

# S2Sta

rts

Contract Total

Payment Profile to

Date

Actual Earned to

Date

% Actual Vs Contract

Total (Lifespan)

(M/J)

Variance

(Actuals - Profile)

(M-K)

% Variance

(Actuals / Profile)

(O/K)

ACE08/09/2008

31/12/2010

Month 22 of 28 (79%)

1,514 £2,765,000 £1,722,473 £1,924,37069.60

%£201,896 11.72%

INVOLVE

03/12/2008

31/12/2010

Month 19 of 25 (76%)

170 £700,008 £561,314 £332,88447.55

%-

£228,430-40.70%

Partnership

Works (AWR)

01/06/2008

31/12/2010

Month 25 of 31 (81%)

1,301 £2,303,963 £1,725,022 £1,137,13749.36

%-

£587,884-34.08%

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LP projects (P5)

Project Name

Contract

Start Date

Contract End Date

Position in

Contract

# S2 & S34

Starts

Contract Total

Payment Profile to

Date

Actual Earned to Date

% Actual Vs

Contract Total

(Lifespan) (M/J)

Variance

(Actuals - Profile)

(M-K)

% Variance

(Actua

ls / Profile)

(O/K)

Skills for Work

01/06/2008

31/12/2010

Month 25 of 31 (81%)

1,796 £3,995,578 £2,701,951 £1,160,412 29.04%-

£1,541,539

-57.05

%

Capacity Building Works

14/07/2008

31/12/2010

Month 24 of 30 (80%)

843 £2,418,872 £1,979,374 £1,310,959 54.20% -£668,415-

33.77%

Key Sectors

01/06/2008

31/07/2011

Month 25 of 38 (66%)

3,707 £8,573,490 £6,305,809 £5,184,182 60.47%-

£1,121,627

-17.79

%

Cornwall Clusters

10/12/2008

31/12/2010

Month 19 of 25 (76%)

1,419 £3,814,399 £2,790,775 £954,276 25.02%-

£1,836,499

-65.81

%

  7,765 £18,802,339 £13,777,909 £8,609,829 45.79%-

£5,168,080

-37.51

%

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Adding Value toMainstream

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Category Priority 4 Priority 5 Total

Profile to date 6,750 19,986 26,736

Actuals to date ( Deliverable S2) 6,278 12,446 18,724

Proportion 93% 62% 70%

Starts on SfL/Basic Skills/ Level 1 1,692 4,229 5,921 Achieved SfL/Basic Skills/Level 1 915 2,099 3,014

Starts on Level 2 533 4,692 5,225 Achieved Level 2 211 1,900 2,111

Starts on Level 3 86 1,654 1,740

Achieved Level 3 19 371 390

Convergence

E&D Enrolments CFO Plan E&D Targets ( ESF)

E&D Enrolments as a Proportion

of Target

Learning Difficulties or Disabilities 4,710 4,826 98%

Participants aged over 50 4,237 5,402 78%

Black & Minority Ethnic Groups 1,235 259 >100%

Women 13,250 13,181 100%

Numbers

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2011-14 Programme

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Activities that the Skills Funding Agency Plan will support range widely but may include the following areas which fit

closely with the integrated themes of the Framework.

ESF Priority Skills Funding Agency Activity 4 NEET & at Risk Group The Best Start for Young People Activities

4 Workless Adults Cornwall Works Skills Adult Learner Responsive Activities

4 Community Grants Community Grants Activities

5 People with Basic Skills Needs

5 Level 2 5 Level 3 5 Level 4 +

Low Carbon/Green Skills Digital Britain (NGA) Leadership and Management Skills for Businesses – Key Sectors (including

place based support and Third Sector value strands), Rural Land-based skills, Public Sector, Higher Skills,

Skills for the Workforce – Individual needs, Basic Skills

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2011-2014 Skills Funding

Agency Allocation

Priority 4

NEET & at Risk NEET

£6,885,099

Workless adults £5,238,662

Unallocated £347,086

Community Grants

£748,380

Total Priority 4 £13,219,227

Priority 5

Basic Skills £9,453,226

Level 2 £9,453,226

Level 3 £11,816,532

Level 4 + £2,363,306

Total Priority 5 £33,086,291

Total P4 & P5 £46,305,518

Skills Funding Agency

2011-14 ESF

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Investment themes - links to policy

• Next Generation Access

• Green Cornwall

• Newquay Airport

• Rural Communities

• Best start for Young people

• Third Sector

• Public Sector Leadership

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Q & A Session

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