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ESF in Action

3 October 2014

10.05 – 10.20 Emma Buckman - Heart of the South West LEP 10.20 – 10.30 Mary Graves - Skills Funding Agency 10.30 – 10.40 Catherine Stevens - BIG Lottery Fund 10.40 – 10.50 Lee Tozer - Department for Work & Pensions 10.50 – 11.10 Petroc Project Overview 11.10 – 11.30 Comfort Break 11.30 – 12.15 Unemployment Workshop Employers Workshop NEETS Workshop 12.30 – 13.00 Workshop feedback & Summary of key messages 13.00 Conference Close & Networking Lunch

Programme

Emma Buckman Interim Strategy Manager Heart of the South West LEP

ESF in Action Conference

3rd October 2014

Strategy Development

Strategic Economic Plan

• Finalised in March
• Overarching economic plan

for the area http://www.heartofswlep.co.u k/strategic-economic-plan ESIF

• Plan setting out how we will

use EU Structural funds to deliver our priorities

• Formally submitted to

Government at the end of January, but can’t be finalised until the ‘National Operational Programme’ has been signed off

Our core aims

Our priorities in a nutshell

Creating the Conditions for Growth Maximising Productivity and Employment Opportunities Building on our Distinctiveness Place

Infrastructure for growth:  Transport and accessibility  Digital infrastructure  Sustainable solutions for flood management  Energy Infrastructure The infrastructure and facilities to create more and better employment:  Enterprise infrastructure  Strategic employment sites  Unlocking housing growth The infrastructure and facilities needed to support higher value growth:  Specialist marine sites  Innovation infrastructure  Our environmental assets

Business

Creating a favourable business environment  A simpler, more accessible, business support system Achieving more sustainable and broadly based business growth:  Reaching new markets  Globalisation Supporting higher value growth:  Innovation through Smart Specialisation  Building innovation capacity

People

Businesses and individuals can reach their potential:  Skills infrastructure  Accessibility to education/employment  Employer engagement and

• wnership

Increasing employment, progression and workforce skills.  Moving people into employment  Supporting people to progress to better jobs  Improving workforce skills Creating a world class workforce to support higher value growth:  Enterprise and business skills  Technical and higher level  Skills for our transformational

• pportunities.

ESIF 2014-2020

• England Programme, steered locally by

HOTSW ESIF strategy

• The role of the strategy is to set out the types
• f activity we expect to see funded in this

programme

• Strategy available on-line
• http://www.heartofswlep.co.uk/news/europe

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EUSIF - background

• Proposals for

investment of:

– ERDF (place blind) – ESF (place blind) – EAFRD (rural only)

• Split by Transition

(Plymouth, Torbay and Devon) and More developed (Somerset)

• Submitted 31st Jan

Transition More Developed Total ERDF £43.25m £14.34m £57.60m ESF £28.84m £14.34m £43.18m EAFRD Not split £15.54m

Approach

• EUSIF – a tool for implementation of the SEP

priorities.

• EUSIF investment supporting a large number

(but not all) of SEP priorities

• Same vision, mission, evidence base
• Looked at how we could link SEP priorities

together in the form of integrated activities

5 Integrated Activities

• A. Maximising Innovation through

Transformational Opportunities and Smart Specialisation

• B. Enterprise and SME Competitiveness
• C. Reaching New Markets
• D. Digital
• E. Social and Economic Inclusion

ESF Activities

Integrated Activity Group ESF Activities A - Innovation

• Employer led solutions to address higher level skills

B – SME Competitivenes s

• Start-up support and leadership and management skills
• Linking students and graduates to industry and

retaining higher level skills C – New Markets

• No ESF Activity

D - Digital

• Digital Inclusion
• Intermediate, Technical and Higher Level Skills

E – Social Inclusion

• Supporting the hardest to reach access economic
• pportunities
• Supported approaches for young people
• Tackling ‘in work poverty’

Opportunities to input

• People theme group consulted on SEP

priorities and broad ESF activities

• Planned event on14th November to engage

with wider stakeholders and partners to define/shape scope and details

How will activity happen?

Opt-Ins

• Three ESF Opt-In providers

– DWP – SFA – BIG Lottery

• HOTSW currently

negotiating Opt-In activity

• Majority of ESF allocation is

likely to go through this route ‘Calls for Proposals’

• Managing Authority to issue

‘Calls for proposals’

• Organisations can apply

against the call

• ESIF committee sets out an

implementation plan, identifying areas for calls each year.

What Next?

• Finalising the ESIF strategy, potentially

tweaking to reflect UK/EC negotiations up until OP signed off

• Setting up the ESIF Area Committee (closing

date 9th Oct)

• Working up implementation plan
• ESF OP signed in the Autumn
• Programme live early in New Year

• 130m in total
• 63m in 15/16
• 8th largest overall
• 9th largest per capita

Heart of the SW – Growth Deal

Growth Deal 1+

• Currently in development
• Capital funding only
• FE Colleges invited to submit proposals
• Desire to engage with private sector in future

deals

heartofswlep.co.uk

Paul Taylor Head of Strategy & Operations Heart of the South West local enterprise partnership paul.taylor@heartofswlep.co.uk 07525 806334

Welcome

Skills Funding Agency 3rd October 2014 Presented to ESF in Action Conference Mary Graves

Current projects

14 - 19 NEET

• Young people aged 14-19
• Either not in education, employment or training (NEET) or at

risk of becoming NEET

• Likely to face multiple barriers to participation and need a

different type of offer to engage them in learning and keep them engaged

• Individually tailored solutions leading to the onward

progression into education or employment with training.

14 - 19 NEET SW

Provider Contract value Contract end date BOURNEMOUTH CHURCHES HOUSING ASSOC LTD £790,264 31 July 2015 CITY COLLEGE PLYMOUTH £222,956 31 July 2015 PETROC £510,432 31 July 2015 PETROC £676,754 31 July 2015 PROSPECTS SERVICES £756,088 31 July 2015 SWINDON COLLEGE £898,752 31 July 2015 WESTON COLLEGE £633,260 31 July 2015

14 - 19 NEET Summary

• Generally successful - SW budget spend up to high 90s
• Considerable successes in terms of achievements for

individuals

• Tended to cover Local Authority areas which encouraged

good buy-in from local stakeholders

Community Grants

• Activities that help individuals in the hardest to reach

communities to enter the labour market

• Provide grants of up to £15,000 to allow small third sector
• rganisations to access ESF through simplified

arrangements

• Grant co-ordinating bodies administer Community Grants
• n a regional basis. They publicise the availability of grants

as well as providing support to successful applicants

Community Grants SW

Provider Contract value Contract end date THE LEARNING CURVE (VOLUNTARY SECTOR DEVELOPMENT) £1,000,000 31 July 2015

Community Grants Summary

• Most successful in terms of overall spend
• Simplest in terms of ESF administration requirements

Skills Support for Redundancy

• To ensure that capacity is in place to respond to

redundancies and the employment implications of local economic conditions

• Support newly unemployed individuals
• Providers deliver tailored skills activities

Skills Support for Redundancy SW

Provider Contract value Contract end date CITY OF BRISTOL COLLEGE £701,200 31 July 2015 LEARNDIRECT LIMITED £1,628,900 31 July 2015

Skills Support for Redundancy Summary

• Less successful in terms of overall spend
• Engages with businesses which has been difficult over this

programme due to the nature of the economy

• SW redundancies have tended to be micro organisations

rather than large scale - harder to respond to

Skills Support for the Unemployed

• Skills support to unemployed individuals on benefits who

are looking for work but face a skills barrier to entering work

• Training and skills which may include regulated units and

qualifications

• Training must respond to an individual’s skills needs
• Learners aged 19 or over, must be unemployed; in receipt
• f state benefits; looking for work, and require skills
• Training to help people enter work

Skills Support for the Unemployed SW

Provider Contract value Contract end date CAREERS SOUTH WEST LIMITED £1,550,000 31 July 2015 CITY OF BRISTOL COLLEGE £677,650 31 July 2015 LEARNDIRECT LIMITED £518,500 31 July 2015

Skills Support for the Unemployed Summary

• Worked well particularly where providers:
• Were embedded in the local infrastructure
• Had a track record of working with the client group

Skills Support for the Workforce

• To meet local skills needs identified by the Local Enterprise

Partnership

• Emphasis on individuals progressing to higher levels of

learning or to Apprenticeships

• There is a responsive element within the contract, to enable

providers to adapt provision to meet emerging skills needs, as identified by the Local Enterprise Partnership

• Supports employed individuals who work in small to

medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and micro sized

• rganisations.

Skills Support for the Workforce SW

Provider Contract value Contract end date SERCO LIMITED £5,339,554 31 July 2015 SOMERSET COUNTY COUNCIL £188,500 31 July 2015 Provider Contract value Contract end date WESTON COLLEGE £1,574,000 31 July 2015 WESTON COLLEGE £278,000 31 July 2015

Skills Support for the Workforce Summary

• Later start date so too soon to tell
• LRF element has been successful
• Demonstrated that working on a LEP-scale footprint can

work – LEP level management partnerships have developed

Workplace Learning

• To promote the in-work progression of employed individuals

with low skills levels

• Delivery of work related skills training
• Enabling individuals to improve their employment status

and to move on to undertake higher levels of training

• Particularly aimed at those vulnerable to future

unemployment

• 19 or over

Workplace Learning SW

Provider Contract value Contract end date PETROC £3,659,580 31 July 2015 PETROC £453,173 31 July 2015

Workplace Learning Summary

• A single contract for the whole of the South West co-

financing area proved challenging (with ESF rule of only

• ne layer of subcontracting)
• https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sfa-esf-

programme-summaries

ESF 2014 - 20

Working with LEPs

• 1. ESF plans, specifications, procurement, reporting
• 2. FE Capital
• 3. Skills support, advice and guidance, including facilitating

relationships with providers

Issues to consider

• LLDD, age, gender, sector focus
• Rigid specifications vs flexibility to meet new and emerging

challenges

• How long should projects be procured for?
• How to manage impact rather than outcome
• Links to other programmes – ERDF, JCP, Big
• Election – how to add value to mainstream when

mainstream priorities change

• Opportunity to think differently

Issues to consider

• Potential providers - Register of Training Organisations
• Agency procurement will still be about education and skills
• Timescales

Area Teams

Deputy Director – Paul Lucken The East Hampshire, IOW and Dorset Team Fareham Office

Head of Employer and Delivery Services – Fiona Willmot 3 x Managers – Alan Jenkinson, Norma Landgraf, Caroline Pover 1 x Advisor – Lyndsey Hamper 1 x Administrator – Malcolm Wright

The Somerset, Devon and Cornwall Team Plymouth Office

Head of Employer and Delivery Services – Tony Skeel 3 x Managers – Richard Daulton, Alison Thorpe, Mary Graves 1 x Advisor – Debbie Young 1 x Administrator – Sadie Cox

Any questions?

mary.graves@sfa.bis.gov.uk

Big Lottery Fund ESIF Offer

Catherine Stevens Policy & Learning Manager October 2014

The Big Lottery Fund

Since June 2004, we have awarded over £6 billion to projects supporting health, education, environment and charitable purposes In 2013/14 we made 12,000 new awards with a total value of £670m We are presently managing circa 22,000 awards and 88% of our awards are for £10,000 or less Over 92% of our funding currently goes to voluntary and community sector organisations

Why ESIF?

OUR MISSION Making a real difference to communities and the lives of people most in need ESF TO9 Promoting social inclusion and combating poverty OUTCOME 1 To maximise the impact of this funding OUTCOME 2 To improve access to European Funds by VCSE

• rganisations

Delivery and Match-funding service

‘2 years +’ Bespoke proposals Award; Deliver; Monitor; Match-funding

Draft Time-line

Development Phase Application Phase Delivery Phase Grant management & reporting Partnership Grants Single Grants Local Negotiation Agreeing Priorities/MOU Project delivery Award and funding set up Programme Development Funding July 2013 December 2014 January onwards Late 2015 2018

Draft priorities

Priorities identified by the LEP so far for this work : - Supporting people furthest from the labour market, including digital skills, access and support for older people Increase work readiness skills of young people Social enterprise and Social Investment, including enterprise coaching In work poverty and those at risk or redundancy to increase wages and sustained employment levels

An opportunity and a challenge

STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES OPPORTUNITIES THREATS New money to LEP areas Managing Demand Local solutions to local problems Size of funding Experience Additional rules Greater impact Monitoring requirements Learning Exclusions Improve cross sector links Claw back The Heart of the SW LEP circa £5,248,800 Total Match Fund £8,748,000

Building Better Opportunities Programme Development Funding

Additional Lottery money available to help local areas make the most of the joint Big Lottery Fund and ESF funding A single Programme Development grant to an organisation in each LEP area The objectives of this are:

• Ensure widespread awareness of the ESF opportunities available
• Provide administrative support
• Provide a publically advertised contact for local organisations

To find out more

www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/global- content/programmes/england/building-better-opportunities

• Further information
• Q& A Document
• ‘Our Learning’ factsheets on:
• Employability
• Financial Inclusion
• Multiple and Complex Needs
• Social Investment
• VCSE Support

http://www.heartofswlep.co.uk/news/european-structural- and-investment-funds-strategy

Jobcentre Plus Devon Cornwall and Somerset inspiring independence through work Lee Tozer

Partnership Manager Jobcentre Plus

DWP Co-financing Offer to LEPs

• DWP has experience of co-financing in ESF and applying lessons

learned

• DWP has agreed to act as a CFO to support LEPs by providing

match funds and procuring / managing provision where the LEP wishes to opt in with its ESF Employment Priority Funds.

• Advise and help LEPs navigate ESF requirements
• Local input to identify provision opportunities, design and delivery

through JCP local contracts.

Local Jobcentre Plus Offer to LEPs

• Broad strategic identification, planning, advising and supporting the

LEP on the full ESIF agenda in context of district labour market analysis

• Maximising funding impacts locally by advising on additionality and

added value

• Supporting the LEP to design their DWP managed employment

provision, where the LEP has chosen to opt in

• Supporting implementation and delivery of provision

Local Jobcentre Plus role in delivery

• f ESF Employment priority provision
• Advice to LEPs on the full range of provision locally, including

Flexible Support Fund plans

• Ensuring new provision is additional, complementary and

compatible

• Ensuring there is a need and market for the provision
• Influencing the design of provision specifications

Any Questions?

Workplace Learning

To promote the in work progression of employed individuals with low skills. Individualised Programme Delivered across the South West Competitiveness Area

Statistics to Date: 1,590 individuals supported 1,071 individuals achieved a qualification 227 individuals progressed 548 Companies supported

Flexible Fund for the Unemployed

To address the barriers & respond to the needs

• f unemployed individuals

To align with employers current & emerging skills needs.

Jobs, Education & Training

To support young people who are NEET or at risk

• f becoming NEET.

Across Devon & Somerset Original Project completed on 31/12/13 New Project due to complete 31/7/14

Previous Contract Statistics: Total Value £2,631,703 1617 learners supported 1441 completed their programme 664 achieved a paid positive outcome £238,223 capacity build projects supported

JET contract Statistics to Date: 255 learners supported 53 completed & achieved 12 Delivery partners

Any Questions

Employment Workshop

Unemployment Workshop

NEET Workshop

ESF in Action

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