1. Networking for Success:
Sheffield City Region skills & employment provider network
Sept 2016

2. Our purpose and objectives
Sheffield City Region
skills & employment provider network
Our purpose and objectives

3. skills & employment provider network
Purpose
To create a vibrant, high-performing network of skills and employment providers which plays a key role in delivering the SCR’s Growth Plan to and beyond

4. skills & employment provider network
Objectives
Communicate
Include
Influence
Support
Inspire

5. skills & employment provider network
Communicate
Provide a two-way communications channel between SCR and the region’s S&E providers:
SCR to S&E Network: to translate policy communication and interpretation, horizon scanning, objective setting into action;
S&E Network to SCR: to provide intelligence from the diverse employer and learner channels and provide feedback on the effectiveness of current and proposed programmes and skills solutions.

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Include
Reach out to all the region’s providers large and small who have the capability and willingness to work collaboratively to maximise the network’s delivery capacity

7. skills & employment provider network
Influence
Mobilise the combined knowledge and experience of the region’s providers to generate a powerful ‘provider voice’ which the SCR will value and will be confident to invite to their policy and strategy-setting forums

8. skills & employment provider network
Support
Provide a forum for sharing knowledge and experience between providers for their mutual benefit and to improve delivery across the SCR as a whole. Include formal or informal collaborations to deliver for the greater benefit of the region

9. skills & employment provider network
Inspire
Be a source of energy and enthusiasm which inspires Employers, Learners, Providers and all other stakeholders to engage with and work proactively towards the SCR’s Growth Plan

10. SCR Provider Professional code of conduct
To form key principles of collaborative practice
Common vision
Shared values
Culture of trust
Lead by example
Long term collective gain
‘to build upon and form a code of conduct…’

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Sheffield City Region
skills & employment provider network
Our Proposal

12. City Region skills & employment provider network
Our proposal sets out how the combined capacity and capability of the region’s ‘skills & employment providers’ will align with SCR economic growth outcomes, such as job creation, business creation and increasing Gross Value Added (GVA) which supports delivery of the Strategic Economic Plan.

13. Sheffield City Region skills & employment provider network
Responding to the region’s sectors which are important in driving future growth, jobs and success:
Advanced  manufacturing
Low carbon
Construction
Logistics
Creative and digital
Manufacturing
Financial and business services
Retail
Healthcare technologies
Sport, leisure and tourism

14. Sheffield City Region skills & employment provider network
Our geographical coverage:

15. Sheffield City Region skills & employment provider network the offer….
To enable the SCR engage with the region’s skills & employment providers through one conduit;
To optimise the region’s expertise to inform the delivery of an employer led system;
To identify region’s future needs and inform capacity and capability programme;
To lever inward investment and funding to maximise skills and employment opportunities;
To create a collaborative model which offers the full range of skills, employment and workforce development services.

16. Sheffield City Region skills & employment provider network the approach…
The S&E Provider network will form a collaboration of all the region’s providers;
Incorporate through open membership from across the region;
Work with the SCR by mirroring the region’s group structure as far as practicable;
Nominate an appropriate provider representative [expert] to a number of the SCR groups;
Align with both regional and national policy and strategy for economic growth and social well being;
Formulate a provider capacity and capability regional programme in response to regional needs and demand.

17. City Region skills & employment provider network the resource…
A collaboration model which brings together the best providers, of all shape and size, with both geographical and diverse coverage that meets the region’s skills & employment needs;
The network represents:
Ofsted graded 1 & 2 organisations
Over 100 providers
Independents, Colleges, Universities, Schools, UTCs
Connected to and serving employers
Engaged 1,000s of learners

18. The S&E Provider Network will mirror and engage with the City Region Structure
Skills, employment and education Governance Board
19+ Skills
Apprenticeships
Employment
Responsive to market*
14-19
Note:
it is recognised that Employers and IAG will form an integral part of each working group
*responsive to market [non-group] = any demand or needs identified in the future will shape and form a new group

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Next Steps

20. Sheffield City Region skills & employment provider network
Interim representatives…..
Following the Networking for Success workshops on the 6th and 11th of April 2016 an Action Group meeting was held to progress the discussions. The Action Group met on the 19th April and would like to propose interim representatives to mirror the 5 SCR Working Groups that feed into the Skills, Employment and Education Governance Board
Apprenticeship
Kelly Bailey - Interserve (existing provider rep)
Chris Ash – Skills for Careers
Employment
Diane Wainwright – The Source
Michelle Pearce – The Work Company
14-19
Chris MacCormac – Morthyng
19+ Skills Funding
Jonathan Wells – HR Training
Skills, Employment and Education Governance Board – TBC

21. skills & employment provider network the representation role (1)…..
Each representative will be responsible for co-ordinating communication with all skills and employability providers regarding their workgroup’s plans and activities. Where the SCR subgroups are already established and active the representative will attend the relevant subgroup meetings. The three currently active SCR subgroups are: Apprenticeships, Careers Advice and 19+ Skills Funding, and Strategy may follow shortly
The purpose of each group will be to ensure that the whole provider network are able to feed into the relevant SCR sub group via the representative and the representative will also provide clear feedback to the group at future meetings. Collaborative working will be a key objective for each of the groups.

22. skills & employment provider network the representation role (2)..…
Formal Terms of Reference will be agreed at the first meetings and an appropriate Chair nominated by each group. All skills and employment providers will be represented at each of the 5 groups and the purpose and objectives agreed by all.
It is proposed that the current SCR Provider Network meeting will continue as a strategic forum for the whole network to meet and that future meetings are co-chaired and have a co-agenda between SCR and the provider Network. That will also provide a forum for the members of each provider workgroup to come together to ensure an overarching approach to regional matters.

23. Additional consideration
Direct relationship with AELP/AoC linking national strategy with regional reality
Form a Provider PR Communications arm to raise awareness, celebrate regional success
Lead on innovation and strategy
Act as a conduit [expert voice] to inform and influence regional skills and employment policy/strategy