1. London LEP ESF Market Warming Event June / July 2015

2. 2014-20 ESIF in London Mary Vine-Morris
LEP European Structural & Investment Funds (ESIF) Committee

3. Budget €351bn
€182bn to less developed regions
€35bn to transition regions
€54bn to more developed regions
of which
€16bn to the UK

4. €6.2 billion for England London notionally allocated €748.6m (c.£550m)
75% for European Social Fund (+ £32m Youth Employment Initiative for Inner London)
25% for European Regional Development Fund
ESF/ERDF + match funding = c.£1.1bn

5. 11 EU-wide ‘Thematic objectives’
ERDF ‘Calls’
ESF ‘Calls’
Research and Innovation
Combating climate change
Information and Commu- nication technologies
Competitiveness of SMEs
Low-carbon economy
Environment and resource efficiency
Sustainable transport
Better public administration
Better education, training
Social inclusion
Employment and Mobility 1 5 8 2 6 9 3 7 10 4
T.A. 11
Objectives translated into ‘Priority Axes’, sub-divided into ‘Investment Priorities’
– set out in national ‘Calls’ on gov.uk website

6. STATE OF PLAY
English ERDF and ESF ‘Operational Programmes’ agreed in principle.
Local calls based on standard national text are live.
LEP strategy provides local context.
Further calls this year very likely.

7. Applying for funds: ESF co-financing (no match needed)
National Operational Programme
Priority Axis 1 - Inclusive Labour Markets
Priority Axis 2 - Skills for growth
London
Adult Employment – BLF and DWP (PA1)
Adult Skills – SFA (PA2)
Youth – SFA (IP1.3)

8. London Call timetable SFA, DWP, BLF – to be confirmed ESF direct bids
Outline applications by 24 April – now closed
ERDF
Priority Axis
Call end date
Priority Axis 4 Low Carbon Economy
20th May
Priority Axis 1 Innovation
27th May
Priority Axis 3 SMEs
29th May
Priority Axis 11 Technical Assistance
Interim dates: 6th May; 30 June; 1 September; 30 October

9. Contract package areas

10. CFO Provision in London
1. Adult employment: 12 draft specifications, DWP/BLF
£10-£15m
Troubled Families, disability, lone parents (out of work), older people
£6-10m
BAME women, ‘cyclers’, mental health
£2-6m
Carers, lone parents (in work), Heathrow, Intermediate Labour Market, employment support for those in social housing

11. CFO Provision in London
2. Adult skills – SFA, 5 draft specifications
Sector based approaches - £25m
In-work progression - £10m
Business start up and entrepeneurship - £8m
Constructions skills - £5m
ESOL - £4m

12. CFO provision in London
3. Youth – SFA, 12 draft specifications
£9-16m
NEET outreach, Preventative NEET, Youth talent
£6-9m
LDD, ‘Targeted interventions’: migrants/care leavers/carers/parents/work programme leavers, careers guidance, careers clusters.
£2-6m
16-18 targeted interventions, mental health/drug/alcohol/homeless, BAME, gangs, ILM

13. governance

14. Find out more….. 1. www.lep.london – click on EU flag, read Q&A2.
3. queries: 4.

15. Thursday, 20 April 2017
Youth Programme:
Match Funding for the Youth Programme will be provided by the Skills Funding Agency, who will procure provision
Think of the Youth Programme as a single programme made up of co-dependent strands
Developed through Task and Finish Groups of stakeholders

16. Youth Programme Complements ‘mainstream’ provision
Thursday, 20 April 2017
Youth Programme
Complements ‘mainstream’ provision
In the main, the delivery unit is the sub- region: achieves a balance of local relevance, economy of scale and critical mass of beneficiaries

17. Career Clusters Secondary schools, FE and Sixth Form Colleges
Thursday, 20 April 2017
Career Clusters
Secondary schools, FE and Sixth Form Colleges
Focus on schools from disadvantaged areas with high %age of students on FSM/pupil premium; lowest rates of HE progression; highest rates of NEET
Senior Leaders, Teachers, and Careers Advisors working in London secondary schools and colleges
Businesses (including SMEs) and Higher Education Institutions who pilot activities with Cluster schools and colleges
Pupils directly benefiting from Cluster HEI and business activity

18. Thursday, 20 April 2017
Preventative NEET
This programme will work with young people in learning and who have been indicated as being 'at risk' of becoming NEET by either their learning institution or local authority

19. Thursday, 20 April 2017
Gangs Prevention
The project will support a cohort of to 16 year olds who are excluded from school and in alternative provision in the London Boroughs with the highest level of need
Focus on young people who are on the trajectory of serious offending in gangs
Focus on increasing engagement with education and increasing employability, as well as tackling family factors through close work with other support services
Programme will support the young person in their whole environment: in Alternative Education provision, in positive structured activities at other times and in future EET activities

20. Thursday, 20 April 2017
NEET Outreach
Young people aged 16 to 18 who are NEET or unemployed but not claiming Job Seekers’ Allowance
Young people aged 16 to 18 whose participation status is ‘not known’
Young people aged 18 to 24 who are unemployed

21. Thursday, 20 April 2017
Careers Guidance
Young people aged 15 to 24 who do not have a statutory right to impartial face-to-face careers advice and guidance or who are otherwise unable to access impartial face-to-face careers advice and guidance

22. Thursday, 20 April 2017
Youth Talent
Young people aged 15 to 17 years who are in formal education and seeking work experience opportunities
Young people aged 16 to 24 not in employment, education or training with low or no qualifications
Young people aged 18 to 24 leaving education or training ready to enter into employment

23. 16-18 Targeted NEET Interventions
Thursday, 20 April 2017
16-18 Targeted NEET Interventions
Young people aged 16 to 18 who are NEET and whose background suggests they require additional support to access and sustain EET

24. Thursday, 20 April 2017
16-24 LDD Targeted NEET
Young Londoners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities aged 16 to 24 who are NEET, including those with limiting long-term health problems

25. Targeted Interventions 18-24
Thursday, 20 April 2017
Targeted Interventions 18-24
Two strands:
Mental health difficulties, drug/alcohol abuse, homeless (c £3.8m)
‘Specific characteristics’ (c £6.8m)
Care leavers
Teenage parents / parents to be
Lone parents
Young carers
Work Programme leavers
(some) Migrants

26. Thursday, 20 April 2017
Young BAME People
Unemployed (and economically inactive, excluding students) people aged 18 to 24 from particular BAME communities (Black or Black British; mixed ethnicity; Pakistani and Bangladeshi; Arab; Roma, Gypsy or Irish Traveller)
New JSA claimants on the programme must have qualifications at or below Level 2

27. Intermediate Labour Markets for Young People
Thursday, 20 April 2017
Intermediate Labour Markets for Young People
Temporary job with additional support for young adults furthest from the labour market, tailored to meet individual client needs
ILMs intended to mirror (as closely as possible) processes for recruitment in the open labour market (competitive interviews for every ILM job)
Delivery model based on four phases; assessment and preparation; job brokerage and interview; in work retention/training/progression and post ILM

28. Adult employment and skills programmes
Timothy Riley   European Programmes Manager Greater London Authority 28

29. Who contributed to programme design?
GLA
London Councils
Individual boroughs
Central Government departments
Opt Ins
ERSA
Housing Associations
LVSC
VCS orgs
Public Health England
Clinical Commissioning Groups
Further Education sector
Higher Education Institutions
Employers
Industry bodies
Researchers / think tanks

30. Approach to adult programmes
Targeted programmes
Poverty and in-work progression
Piloting new approaches
Integration of services
Sub-regional contracts
Funding follows need

31. Targeted Support for the most disadvantaged (Lone) Parents out of work
Cyclers
Older People
Refugees
‘Jobs Plus’
Heathrw Academy
Carers
Complex needs
Inactive BME Women
Troubled Families
(Lone) Parents out of work
(Lone) Parents in work
Common Mental Health
Disability
ILM - Disability

32. Common mental health conditions
Support targeted at those with common mental health conditions, like depression and anxiety
Support being designed by boroughs and CCGs to ensure that it reacts to local provision commissioned by boroughs and IAPT.
Big Lottery tranche 2
Employment support for people with disabilities
Broader eligibility than our other health and disability programmes
Aim to explore how the programme can better integrate with local authority services.
DWP

33. Intermediate Labour Market
Support for the hardest to help people with disabilities.
Customers must have a disability and one other serious labour market disadvantage, have had no work for 6 months and less than 6 months cumulative work over 2 years.
Temporary jobs for 6 months at minimum wage paid for by programme.
Support to then enter work in the open labour market.
Big Lottery tranche 1

34. (Lone) parents out of work
Troubled Families
Supporting families also receiving support through the DCLG Troubled Families programme
New programme will be better integrated to boroughs, including through Service Level Agreement between providers and boroughs
Opt In likely to be DWP
(Lone) parents out of work
For parents not receiving support from Troubled Families programme
Also a focus on engaging employers
Opt In likely to be DWP

35. Economically inactive BAME women
(Lone) parents in work
Support for parents and lone parents stuck in low paid work to progress and increase wages
Early stages of development
Opt in to be confirmed
Economically inactive BAME women
Targeted support for economically inactive and long term unemployed women from particular communities with high levels of economic inactivity and worklessness
Focus on outreach
Big Lottery Tranche 1

36. Older people ‘Jobs Plus’
Support for those aged 50+, particularly long term unemployed and economically inactive people.
Opt In likely to be DWP
‘Jobs Plus’
Adapting the highly successful Jobs Plus programme to the UK context – development work underway.
Estate-based programme with three key elements
1-2-1 personal advisor support
Financial incentives to work
Community engagement
Opt In to be confirmed

37. Those cycling in and out of low paid work
Pilot to support those cycling in and out of work to enter and sustain work and progress their wages to the London Living Wage.
Aiming to conduct as a randomised control trial
Opt In likely to be DWP
Carers
Support carers and former carers
Aim to support those who can to enter work, and to keep others closer to the labour market
Big Lottery tranche 1

38. Multiple and complex needs
Refugees
For those who have been granted refugee status, not those going through the asylum process
Often have severe barriers to work associated with experience in country of nationality and process of seeking asylum
Big Lottery tranche 2
Multiple and complex needs
Will focus on those who are homeless, with a history of offending and / mental health conditions
Big Lottery tranche 2

39. Heathrow Academy
Support to local people to enter work at Heathrow Airport – strong links with Heathrow Employers.
Building on previous ESF programmes
Cross LEP programme – London, Enterprise M3, Thames Valley
DWP

40. Planned Adult Skills Provision
Business start up and entrepreneur-ship
Creative Industries
Tourism & Hospitality
Health & Social Care
In-work progression programme
Sector Based Approaches
Construction
ESOL
Digital
Retail

41. Sector based approaches
Support for unemployed and economically inactive people enter work in particular sectors.
Provision to include employability support and vocational training
Focus on particular target sectors
ESOL
Likely to be focus on pre-Entry level ESOL support
Could link up with employment programmes, such as support for refugees or BAME women

42. Self-Employment and entrepreneur-ship
Support to enter self-employment and sustain the company
Aim to ensure the business can provide a suitable income
In Work Progression
Support for any people stuck in low paid work to progress and increase wages.
Focus on working with employers

43. Contacts www.london.gov.uk/lep

44. Coffee Break

45. The Register of Training Organisations
Current refresh process and scope of the Register
Market entry and market exit team
June 2015

46. The Register of Training Organisations
Purpose of the Register
Pre-qualification Process
Scope of the Register
Register refresh
Important notes

47. Purpose of the Register
The Register of Training Organisations will…
Ensure organisations currently listed, and any new organisations, are:
Suitable entities to deliver or develop learning
Financially robust
Safeguard public funds together with our interests and those of the provider, learners’ or users’
Enable the Agency to:
Confirm if organisations with an existing funding agreement with us are suitable to continue to fund
Support the sector in subcontracting provision, by requiring subcontractors intending to deliver £100,000 or more in aggregated value, to enter the Register before they enter into such arrangements
Act as the market entry point for organisations seeking to be eligible to compete for contracts when funding becomes available

48. Pre-qualification process
We have updated our pre-qualification process to reduce the number of questions for organisations that do not want to tender. For organisations that want to tender when opportunities become available our updated questions help them understand what is required to deliver a contract. Testing capacity and capability further at this stage will enable us to focus our tendering more efficiently
All organisations must complete and pass the due diligence and capacity and capability questions in order to be invited to tender
Pre-qualification process
Due diligence questions
(includes a financial health self-assessment)
Capacity and capability questions
(cannot be submitted unless the due diligence questions are submitted first)

49. FHA self-assessment toolkit
What is it?
In the due diligence questions we ask organisations to provide their latest financial statements in order to carry out a financial health assessment. This measures financial status in terms of financial performance and ability to meet ongoing financial commitments. In order to safeguard public funds, only those organisations that can demonstrate they are financially robust can progress in our pre-qualification process.
How do I complete it?
An Excel worksheet is provided in the due diligence questions, which is designed to:
guide organisations through the financial health assessment (FHA)
help determine what information is required to undertake an assessment
predict a grade of Outstanding/Good/Satisfactory/Inadequate based on the information entered
The toolkit provides directions/warnings according to what is input and it provides explanations on where to find the financial numbers from financial statements.
What does this mean for organisations that apply?
Organisations complete the self-assessment toolkit and upload it to the due diligence questions. They must also submit their latest financial statements that have been used to complete the self-assessment toolkit, as well as any other additional information identified in our guidance.

50. Scope of the Register The Register is for all organisations who are…
In our supply chain that want to keep a direct contract
In our supply chain who wish to compete for additional funding
Who wish to compete in the future for a direct contract
Seeking to operate as a subcontractor with £100,000 or more aggregate contract value
New organisations that want to be listed on the Register
Large employers that receive, or intend to receive, direct grant funding for Apprenticeships

51. The Register Scope of the Register Development of services
We have widened the remit of the register in order to simplify our processes and reduce the number of PQQs organisations are required to complete if they are interested in more than the delivery of education and training. 
The Register
Delivery of information, advice and guidance
(help individuals make decisions on learning, training and work opportunities)
Delivery of education and training
Development of services
(enhancing the delivery of the National Careers Service and increasing the numbers of young people taking up Apprenticeship and Traineeship opportunities)

52. Register refresh Who is it for? Why do organisations have to refresh?
Any organisation currently listed on the Register regardless of when they last applied
Any new organisation that wants to compete for funding or contracts
Why do organisations have to refresh?
Funding rules – it is a funding requirement that organisations refresh their information when required to do so
It ensures information is current – for example ensuring organisations are evaluated on their most recent financial statements as their position may have changed since their last application
It ensures all organisations are evaluated equally as we have updated our questions and process – with all organisations completing the same questions we can use these answers to invite organisations to tender, improving responsiveness to new opportunities

53. Important notes When can I apply?
The pre-qualification process opens approximately 3 times a year.
Details of the next opening will be communicated on our website:
How do I access the questions?
When we are open for applications, the pre-qualification questions can be accessed in our e-tendering portal at:
Where can I find more information?
The ‘read me first instruction document’ provides detailed information about the pre-qualification process
The ‘accessing the e-tendering portal’ guidance provides step by step details on how to access the questions
on the e-tendering portal
Both of these documents and more information can be found on our website:

54. Building Better Opportunities 24th June 2015
Laura Furness – Local Deals Manager

55. Introduction Why BBO? Role of the ESIF Committee Key Messages
Building Better Opportunities London LEP Area
The Big Lottery Fund’s Opt In Offer
The Application Process
Next Steps
Questions and Answer

56. Why BBO? Overall Vision for BBO
ESF TO9
Promoting social inclusion and combating poverty
OUR MISSION
Making a real difference to communities and the lives of people most in need
OUTCOME 1
To maximise the impact of this funding
OUTCOME 2
Whilst open to all sectors, we aim to improve access to European Funds by VCSE organisations

57. Role of the LEP Area ESIF Sub Committee
Advice on strategic fit

58. Key messages BBO is now live.
37 Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) areas are expected to opt in.
71 projects in 25 LEP areas are now open for application.
£300m investment over 3 years to tackle poverty and promote social inclusion.

59. Support to applicants
Baker Tilly/Ecorys are offering support and advice regards monitoring and reporting requirements.

60. Programme Development Funding
£950k across 36 LEP areas
LVSC: London’s PDF Organisation
3 objectives;
Awareness
Administrative support
Contact

61. Context: What this means for the London LEP area
Total investment of £32.5m-£35.0m
Project Outlines Overview
TRANCHE 1
BAME Women
ILM Disability & Health
Carers
TRANCHE 2
Common MH
Lone Parents (TBC)
Refugees
Severe Multiple Disadvantage (TBC)
Tailored and local approaches
PAN-London & Sub-Regional
Range of activities

62. The Big Lottery Opt In Offer A Summary
Supporting those furthest from the labour market
Actual costs
3. Grants, not contracts

63. Timescales appropriate to the projects not projects to the timescales
The Fund’s Opt In Offer Different application windows
Timescales appropriate to the projects not projects to the timescales

64. Standardised tools, processes and systems
The Fund’s Opt In Offer Simplified monitoring
Standardised tools, processes and systems

65. Application Process 2-stage competitive grants process
Outline proposal
Stage 2
Detailed proposal

66. Application Process Big Lottery development grants
Stage 1
Outline proposal
Development funding
Lottery money
Stage 2
Detailed proposal

67. Evaluation
Access
Impact

68. Tranche 1 Key dates June/July 2015 – Stage 1 Application
August/September – Stage 1 Assessment
October – Stage 1 Decision Making
November/December – Stage 2 Application
January/February 2016 – Stage 2 Assessment (there are multiple deadlines for the applicant to choose from, this is the earliest)
March – Stage 2 Earliest decisions and award
* All dates are subject to minor change.
Use for T1
Note that the application window at stage 2 has multiple deadlines to add flexibility. It will be the applicants choice which they submit to.

69. Tranche 2 Key dates October/November 2015 – Stage 1 Application
December/January 2016/February (to include Christmas break) – Stage 1 Assessment
March – Stage 1 Decision Making
March/April – Stage 2 Application
May/ June– Stage 2 Assessment (there are multiple deadlines for the applicant to choose from, this is the earliest)
July – Stage 2 Earliest decisions and award
* All dates are subject to minor change.
Use for T2
Note that the application window at stage 2 has multiple deadlines to add flexibility. It will be the applicants choice which they submit to.

70. Next Steps Development of Tranche 2 project outlines.
BBO application process for tranche 1 projects.

71. Feedback and Questions

72. Further information

73. European Social Fund 2014-2020 DWP Opt-in Organisation
Derek Harvey
Group Partnership Manager, London and Home Counties

74. The DWP Opt-In Offer
Support LEP areas to develop their requirements for employment focused provision
Procure the contracts
Manage the performance of the contracts
Manage the ESF Audit and compliance regime
Provide Match Funding
Accountability for financial and audit risk

75. Working together London LEP has produced draft detailed requirements
These details and the value of the contracts have been shared with DWP and are being assessed.
Next steps will be for DWP to translate the requirements into Specifications
DWP will submit an application for funding to the Managing Authority for their appraisal and approval
When a funding agreement is in place, between the DWP and the Managing Authority, the commercial process can begin

76. Commercial Approach Open & fair competition
Compliant with EU Procurement & Cabinet Office Lean Procurement Guidelines
Opportunities will be advertised on the Contracts Finder website & OJEU –
Invitations to Tender will be issued through Bravo Solutions
Ministers approval to announce the successful bidder

77. Commercial Approach (cont..)
Any legal entity can bid (including local businesses/Small Medium Employers/Voluntary Sector and Special Purpose Vehicle through consortia and partnership)
DWP strongly support and encourage local market and specialist engagement in the provision either in their own right or through the supply chain
Our commercial strategy will be clearly explained as part of the Invitation To Tender Documents and/or launch event

78. Commercial Approach (cont..)
Further information about DWP Procurement can be found at:

79. Performance Management
Contracts will be implemented between 8 weeks and 13 weeks from the date the contract is awarded
There will be regular Contract Performance Review meetings between the DWP Performance Manager and the Provider
Formal Intervention and Improvement Planning will be in place if required
DWP will discuss with the ESIF Committee any major contract performance issues which impact on the achievement of the contract objectives

80. Questions

81. Facilitated Networking