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Skills Development Scotland

• an overview

Skills Development Scotland

Agenda

10:35 -10:50 SDS Strategy Overview – Alison More (15) 10:50 -11:10 CMS and Service Modernisation – Karen Glen (20) 11:15 -11:25 Opportunities for All – Mike O’Donnell (10) Q&A 20 mins 11:45 -12:05 MAs – Katie Hutton (20) 12:05 -12:20 Industry & Employer Engagement – Gordon McGuiness (15) 12:20 -12:30 Close - SDS Chair John McClelland (10) Q&A 30 mins

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Alison More, Lead Head of Strategy, Policy & Performance

• the operating environment
• SDS corporate strategy 2012-15
• SDS operating plan 2012/13

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The operating environment

• political

– skills strategy – government economic strategy – youth employment strategy – post 16 reform – Opportunities for All – CIAG strategy – CMS framework – Christie Commission

• economic

– fragile economy – youth unemployment levels – public spending squeeze

• social

– changing demographics – demanding consumers

• technological

– the digital age

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Context: common themes

• support economic recovery and growth
• support youth employment
• customer focus
• prevention
• collaboration and integration
• harness technology
• value for money

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Scottish skills planning model

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Corporate strategy and operating plan

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Karen Glen, Lead Head of Services to Individuals and Service Improvement

• modernising our services
• career management skills
• career information, advice & guidance

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Drivers for change

• the way people access information
• labour market
• number of jobs in a working lifetime
• CIAG strategy for Scotland – framework for service redesign & improvement
• career management skills – self, strengths, horizons and networks
• Curriculum for Excellence
• GIRFEC
• Opportunities for All – youth employment

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Curriculum for Excellence

• improving the learning, attainment and achievement of young people in Scotland
• acquiring the skills and abilities relevant to living and working in today’s world
• successful learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens and effective

contributors to society and at work

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Career Management Skills (CMS)

• Curriculum for Excellence

– health and well being – Building the Curriculum 4

• empowerment through coaching
• building skills that are long lasting

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CMS framework for Scotland

• consistent definition and description across all partners in Scotland
• 17 competencies
• self, strengths, horizons and networks
• aimed at organisations in Scotland responsible for the planning, management and

delivery of career services and those providing career related learning

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• all age
• little differentiation based on need
• broad cover of many/all customers
• performance based on number of interventions
• little quality assurance

Previous service

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• information – skills based approach
• all age with focus on 16-19

– in school – post school

• differentiated service based on

– length of sessions – number of engagement sessions – content – information to skill based – continuity of engagement – assigned Career Coach – need

Future service delivery

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• career management skills in the classroom within CfE

– 6 pathfinder schools developing resources – fully operational 2013-14 academic year – support for parents to understand and apply CMS

• career coaching for those young people at risk

– as identified by the school partnership – tailored and intensive

• group sessions
• lunchtime clinics

School offer

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Built in a CMS environment – my wow

• complements face to face, contact centre and partner channels
• designed to support the acquisition of CMS

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School offer

• enhancing links with industry

– work placements – jobs fair

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• career coaching
• My World of Work
• with partners

– JCP Integrated Employment Services (IES)

• with businesses

– Partners in Action for Continuing Employment (PACE)

• FE
• +20
• Opportunities for All

Centres

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• transition 2012-13
• trials
• development
• quality assured

– in partnership with Education Scotland

• 13/14 embedding of services

Service development and evaluation

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• adapting roles to customer needs

– focused approx 200 FTE on those most at risk – re-shaped roles to coaching

• work coaches
• career coaches
• personal advisers supporting
• core capabilities

Service will be delivered through

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• SDS academy

up-skilling all customer facing staff and line managers

– knowledge, skills & behaviours – coaching capability – career management skills – team development – phase 1 L&D plan will complete February 2012

• technologies

– mobile – recording & reporting

• systems & processes
• staff professionalism
• supporting our professionals with labour market information

Investment in

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Mike O’Donnell Youth Employment Manager

• Opportunities for All
• working together

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SDS and Opportunities for All

Opportunities for All is characterised by

• partnership working across public, third and private sector nationally and locally
• joint service delivery/understanding your partners better (eg YEAPs)
• viewing the world through the eyes of the customer... client centred/ ‘no wrong door’

approach

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• SG specific ‘asks’
• focused service offer/first port of call
• facilitate development of youth employment action plans and link into the

SOA process

• focus on ‘certification’ for young people (Certificate of Work Readiness)
• phone line (0800 917 8000) Facebook etc
• IES agenda
• measuring participation across OfA/Data Hub etc

SDS and Opportunities for All

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• joining it up locally
• using data effectively to target resources
• OfA as a collaborative approach for those young people that need additional help

SDS and Opportunities for All

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Katie Hutton, Head of NTP Policy and Integration

• Modern Apprenticeships

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Modern Apprenticeships – targets, funding and current policy

• 25,000 starts per year
• funding contribution depends on
• age group
• VQ/SCQF level
• type of MA framework
• board policy 2012/13 for allocation
• f starts
• maximise 16 -19 year olds (and

then 20 - 24)

• maximise Level 3 plus
• maximise key sectors

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Staged approach

• 1. Estimated demand and policy review.
• 2. Approval to initiate contracting process.
• 3. Bidding process and review of responses.
• 4. Approval for contract awards.

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MAs - summary

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Gordon McGuinness, Lead Head of Industry Engagement and Employer Offer

• Our Skillsforce
• skills investment plans

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Our Skillsforce

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Recruit new skills

• national Support from Skills Development

Scotland and Jobcentre Plus

• local tailored services from across

Scotland’s 32 local authorities these vary and will reflect local Employability Partnership activity

• assist companies to identify best offer

available and the relevant contact

• Our Skillsforce is designed to be clear and

enable navigation to the appropriate contact

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Develop your skillsforce

• support from Skills Development Scotland

– Modern Apprenticeships – Flexible Training Opportunities – Low Carbon Skills – How to Guides – Course Search

• Scottish Enterprise - Leadership & Management
• Business Gateway
• Local Authorities
• IIP Scotland
• links to Scotland’s Colleges and Universities
• Scottish Credit and Qualification Framework – SCQF

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Plan your skillsforce

• information, resources and advice on workforce planning
• video content to provide insight and encourage action
• regular skills pulse survey results
• labour market data and statistics
• sector development information

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Interactive features

Skills Alert – a unique responsive service for companies with challenging skill issues. Provide the details and we’ll do our best to assist. Skills Plan – a developing service to assist business to identify and plan training investment. Call – our contact centre will answer enquiries

• r connect business to the most appropriate person.

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Skills Investment Plan development process

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Commitment to SIPs

Sec Sector Whe When 12/1 /13 O Operating ing Pl Plan com commit mitmen ment Re Respo sponse t se to Ind Industry y ‘ask sk’ Energy 2011 Food and Drink Feb 2012 Yes Tourism Nov 2012 Yes Financial Services Dec 2012 Yes Life Sciences Jan 2013 Yes Creative June 2013 + Yes Whe When Engineering Feb 2013 Yes ICT Feb 2013 Yes Chemical Sciences May 2013 Yes Forest & Timber Technologies March 2013 Yes Textiles To Be Agreed Yes Construction March 2013 Yes Regional SIPS HIE Pilot Enterprise Areas Mar 2013 Yes Sec Sector Whe When 12/1 /13 O Operating ing Pl Plan com commit mitmen ment Re Respo sponse t se to Ind Industry y ‘ask sk’ Energy 2011 Food and Drink Feb 2012 Yes Tourism Nov 2012 Yes Financial Services Dec 2012 Yes Life Sciences Jan 2013 Yes Creative June 2013 + Yes Whe When Engineering Feb 2013 Yes ICT Feb 2013 Yes Chemical Sciences May 2013 Yes Forest & Timber Technologies March 2013 Yes Textiles To Be Agreed Yes Construction March 2013 Yes Regional SIPS HIE Pilot Enterprise Areas Mar 2013 Yes

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Skills Investment Plans

• SIPs

– based on a strong articulation of Industry Ambition for Growth – provides a clearly communicated statement of skills needs facing the sector – identify the skills priorities that support the sector to achieve its growth potential – framework for better alignment of skills supply with industry articulated demand

• originally conceived as having national focus and strong emphasis on industry

engagement and buy-in

• can make a key contribution to implementing the skills planning model

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John McClelland CBE, SDS Chair

• the Scottish skills planning model
• key areas of collaboration
• working even closer

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Key areas of existing collaboration

• chief exec engagement
• service delivery agreements
• single outcome agreements
• youth employment action plans (YEAPs)
• data sharing agreements
• CMS/CfE pathfinder activities in schools

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Working even closer

• CMS – help to embed in school curriculum
• OFA – collaboration on YEAP development
• OFA – support Certificate of Work Readiness
• MAs – maximise use of available Modern Apprentice places
• support on local/regional economic strategies

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Question & Answers