1. Integrating Welfare to Work & Skills Locally: Doing what it says on the tin Jerry Baker, COO, Employment Mushall Khan, Group Change Manager Kim Pattison, Head of External Relations

2. Company overview esg. formed in 2007 Bringing together a history of employment related and skills provision Delivering to Government departments for over 20 years including DWP and BIS

3. Company overview SkillsEmployment Train to Gain PLA Apprenticeships NDDP IAP ND for Lone Parents EZ JSPSC

4. Policy context Why? New skills essential for support into employment and sustainability History of calls for integrated skills and employment Government announcement to ‘abolish Leitch’ 2.67m people unemployed in the UK 1.04m < 18 years old 2.57m people claiming Employment Support Allowance/Incapacity Benefit

5. Work programme and Apprenticeships

6. Policy context Some progression? Adult Skills Budget – 2.5% to be spent on improved provision to unemployed learners – work related skills. Single Unit ‘bite-sized’ courses to help make unemployed people more ‘marketable’ Still a complex maze of funding and benefit rules apply around provision Policy continues to change and develop

7. Company overview SkillsEmployment

8. Work programme Providers need to attract funding through other sources Providers expected to stitch things together Didn’t happen Work Programme budget limited Programme designed without skills integration Work Programme SHOULD be the core programme on which other funding hangs, a combination of all funding to unemployed people A Work Programme that truly works – including skills development – couldn’t be done without SFA funding

9. Current situation Source: AELP/LSIS Provider Guide to Delivering Adult Skills Provision to the Unemployed

10. Smart ‘Alec’ moment

11. Company overview

12. Timeframe

13. Making it happen – The Journey Launch of project - August 2011 Employability Skills units Level 1 & 2 Vocational units: Childcare, Health & Social Care Retail, Customer Service, Business Administration, Call Centre, Hospitality Leisure, travel & Tourism, Hair People, product, process

14. Making it happen – People, Product, Process Customers Work Programme….aspirations Employers…..demand Teaching Vocational v Generic Linking into skills division Part of assessor caseloads Classroom delivery Support staff

15. Making it happen – People, Product, Process Awarding body Short sharp delivery Resource packs Range of levels Employability skills units Vocational units

16. Making it happen – People, Product, Process Paper, paper and more paper!! Fit for purpose Sign up Review Verification Reports Tight turnaround Who???

17. What next? Jan to May 2012: 4212 units Pilot …. roll out Functional skills More single units Vocational routeways Sector based academies Pre apprenticeship training

18. Demand Workforce Jobs by Sector UK (NOMIS) Source: AELP/LSIS Provider Guide to Delivering Adult Skills Provision to the Unemployed

19. And lest we forget…

20. Company overview Skills and Employment = Sustainability

21. Questions?