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SKILLS & EMPLOYMENT IN LONDON

Michelle Cuomo Boorer Director – Skills & Employment Greater London Authority

Mayor’s Vision for Skills

A City for all Londoners –

making sure Londoners, employers and business get the skills they need to succeed in a fair, inclusive society and thriving economy.

Strategies overview

– Draft Economic Development Strategy (EDS) published and consulted on until 13 March 2018. – Final EDS published in autumn 2018 – Skills for Londoners Strategy published on 6th June 2018 – Skills & Employment Framework published end of June 2018; consultation closed in August – Discussions with Grant providers begins June 2018 – ESF and AEB procurement starts autumn 2018

• Draft Funding Rules published October 2018
• Final Funding Rules published Spring 2019

– AEB & ESF commences delivery 1st August 2019

Economic Development Strategy

(statutory)

Skills Strategy (non-statutory) Skills & Employment Framework AEB Funding Rules

AEB and Skills for Londoners Governance Structure

Skills for Londoners Strategy

Empowering Londoners Meeting economic & employer need Strategic city-wide approach

• First stand-alone strategy for London
• First time London will see true

devolution of part of the skills system

• Greater focus on outcomes.
• Greater focus on inclusion, diversity and

social mobility.

• Collaborative and strategic approach

between London government, employers, skills providers, unions and key stakeholders.

• Widely consulted on between November

and January with skills providers, boroughs, employers and Londoners

Programmes/ initiatives underway

Adult Education Budget European Social Fund Mayor’s Construction Academy Digital Talent Programm e Post-16 SEND Review 16-18 Education Research Wider Devolution UKSPF/ LIS Skills for Londoners Capital Fund LEAN Expansion Brexit and Automatio n

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Strategy

Apprenticeship s Pilots Mayor’s All- age Careers Offer Action Plan

Digital Talent Programme

£7m programme launched in February 2018 to plug the growing digital skills shortage in the digital, creative and technology industries with diverse, home-grown talent.

Mayor’s Construction Academy

£9m programme launched in spring 2018 to help more Londoners train in the skills they need to access construction-sector vacancies on the capital’s housing and construction sites

• £40m made available
• £35.7m successful applications
• £25.4m committed
• SfLCF £20.5m
• Development Support Fund £1.3m
• Small Projects and Equipment

Fund £3.6m

Skills for Londoners Capital Funding Round 1

Further Education Capital projects Skills for Londoners projects Development Support Fund projects

• £82m
• Grant investment requests from £200k -£10m
• GLA OPS
• MCA - £7.2m ringfence
• IoTs

Skills for Londoners Capital Funding Round 2

Apprenticeship action plan & pilots

• The Mayor’s aim is ‘to promote the development and take-up of

relevant and high-quality apprenticeship opportunities to support the needs of employers and achieve social mobility objectives’.

• City Hall’s forthcoming £1.3m apprenticeship pilot programme will

support employers in London’s key sectors to use levy funds to develop skills in their business, sector and supply chain, including through use of levy transfers.

• The Mayor is also supporting apprenticeships through:

– Good Work Standard – London Growth Hub – Extension of the London Enterprise Adviser Network – Coordination of apprenticeship ambassador activities – 5 Cities apprenticeship diversity initiative

Adult Education Budget (AEB)

• AEB is being delegated to the Mayor from 2019/20
• DFE gave indicative 19/20 budget of £311 million for London.

Final figure to be confirmed in Jan 2019.

• Distribution to follow similar pattern to ESFA programme initially
• Minimal policy change in the first two years.
• Around 90% provision allocated to grant providers

– Will not be ESF compliant; and – Will not require a competitive tendering process

• Around 10% competitive provision allocated to ITPs

Will be used to match £71m additional ESF provision Will be competitively tendered over 4 years

AEB implementation timeline

Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4 Evaluation of the deal Programme clarification Transition plan implementation Moving into delivery Determining whether the

• ffer from govt.

is acceptable in principle:

• Readiness

conditions

• Funding

settlement Determining the

• perational

structure, system and resourcing requirements: Putting the requisite structures and systems in place Assuming responsibility for the devolved AEB Feb – Sept 2017 April – Nov 2017 Nov 2017 – Aug 2019 Aug 2019 Acceptance of devolution deal in principle

London’s AEB allocation

1.3% 5.7% 3.9%

21.9%

8.4% 1.7% 7.5% 4.4% 45.3%

AEB 2015/16 notional allocations

• by devolved authority

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Greater Manchester Liverpool City Region London Sheffield City Region Tees Valley West Midlands West of England Non Devolved AEB

London adult skills providers

(2015/16)

410 approved prime

providers Of which:

292 grant funded 118 contracts for services

(Independent Training Providers (ITPs)

110 approved prime

providers located in London Of which:

71 grant funded 39 contracts for services

(ITPs) Totals do not include an unspecified number of sub-contractors working beneath the primes

Challenges & Opportunities

Still many unknowns:

• Tolerances for out of

London delivery

• Data - detail of how

existing budget is spent and what it buys – hampers our ability to model future allocations to providers

• Audit – who will lead on

this But, opportunities to:

• Align the budget to the Mayor’s

priorities and needs of Londoners and London’s businesses

• Develop a holistic skills system
• Move to more outcome based

commissioning – getting the results London needs

• Utilise most of London’s

remaining ESF by matching it at 50% with the devolved AEB

European Social Fund

Adult programmes:

• Occupational skills
• ESOL
• English and maths
• Parental employment
• Targeted employment

support Youth programmes:

• Continuing participation
• Gangs prevention
• SEND
• Targeted support for

NEETs

• Careers clusters

£71m programme focused on the following:

SKILLS FOR LONDONERS FRAMEWORK

– Framework set out the Mayors intentions for funding for a range of Skills and Employment Funding Streams – Relatively few changes will be made to AEB in 2019-20

• Ensures provider stability
• Smooth handover of a complex programme
• Consultation ran from June to 17th

August

• Responses positive with the majority of

respondents in favour of proposed changes

Type of organisation responding Number of written responses Local Authority 16 Further Education College 8 Other Education/Training Provider 6 Education Provider Representative Body 8 Sub-regional partnership 4 Campaign Organisation 2 Charitable

• rganisation

2 Business 1 Business Representative Body 1 Think tank 1 Other 7

OUTCOMES

• Move towards outcomes related funding
• Sub-group of the Skills for Londoners Board is

being established to lead the work.

• Development and implementation will be

incremental in consultation with the sector

• Three strands:

– What outcomes should we measure – How will these be measured – Ooutcomes related funding pilots

July 2018 Framework published Initial engagement with existing grant providers Dec 2018 Publish draft funding and performance management rules Jan 2019 Final AEB allocation from the DfE confirmed Mar 2019 Publish final funding and performance management rules Final allocations confirmed to providers Apr-Jul 2019 Award Funding Agreements Aug 2019 Delivery starts

TIMETABLE: AEB GRANT PROGRAMME

• Strong working relationships with the sector and FE

Colleges in particular

• Single point of contact within the GLA
• Responsive and nimble
• Better understand your area, need and

provision

• Support through transition
• 7 contracts per project manager
• Focus on quality not volume
• Lia Teski, will be point of contact for all 4

Hertforshire LEP Colleges

DELIVERY APPROACH

In the short term the GLA will:

• Retain minimum contract values for AEB/ESF provision

(£100,000 per year)

• Annual minimum contract value of £100,000
• We may offer AEB grants lower than £100k in

exceptional circumstances if providers can make a case for why

• Having a 20% cap on sub-contracting fees, unless a

provider can demonstrate that a higher fee is justified

FUNDING & CONTRACT VALUES

July 2018 Framework published Aug 2018 Prior Information Notice issued Mid-Oct 2018 Publication of Contract Notice and tender documentation Mid-Dec 2018 Deadline for tender submissions Dec 2018 - Mar 2019 Scoring, moderation, due diligence etc. Apr-Jun 2019 Contract award, standstill period, clarifications. Aug 2019 Delivery starts

TIMETABLE: PROCURED AEB

Forward Look

AEB & ESF Procurement launch Building the case for wider devolution/ Local Industrial Strategy Apprenticeships pilot launch Access to skilled talent post-Brexit The Skills and Employment Knowledge Hub The Mayor’s 100 year vision for Adult Skills

QUESTIONS

Contact Details

• Michelle Cuomo Boorer michelle.Cuomo-

boorer@London.gov.uk tel 020 7904 6547

• Lia Tseki lia.tseki@London.gov.uk tel 020 7084 2516