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MAYOR’S SKILLS STRATEGY

F O R O G H R A H M A N I

S T R AT E G Y, P O L I C Y A N D R E L AT I O N S H I P S M A N A G E R

Mayoral commitments on skills

• Establish a Skills for Londoners taskforce to develop a city-wide

strategic approach to skills

• Seek a devolution deal over further education
• Create thousands of new, high quality apprenticeships
• Setup a digital talent programme as part of a tech talent pipeline
• Establish a construction academy scheme with the

housebuilding industry

Skills for Londoners (SfL)

Taskforce Stakeholder Advisory Group Task & Finish Group Task & Finish Group Task & Finish Group Task & Finish Group

Skills and education experts and providers Employers and business representative

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Central and London Government representatives Learner and employee representatives VCS

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Deputy Mayor London Councils Lead Skills / education experts Employer reps Think tanks Social enterprises

LEAP Mayor

Skills Strategy Background

• First Mayor to produce a stand-alone Skills Strategy for

London.

• First time London will see true devolution of part of the skills

system (£400m p/a Adult Education Budget from 2019/20).

• Greater focus on inclusion, diversity and social mobility.
• Greater shift to outcome-based commissioning.
• Collaborative and strategic approach between London

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

A Skills Strategy for London

16+ technical & vocational education Adult education & community learning Employment and in-work progression support Pathways from school and other learning settings Pathways to further learning and work Careers information, advice and guidance

Mayor’s Vision for Skills

A City for all Londoners – making sure Londoners and employers get the skills they need to succeed in a fair, inclusive and thriving economy.

Skills Strategy Priorities

Empowering Londoners

Meeting economic & employer need A strategic city-wide approach

• 1. Empower all Londoners to

access the education and skills to participate in society and progress in education and work

• 2. Meet the needs of London’s

economy and employers, now and in the future

• 3. Deliver a strategic city-wide

technical skills and adult education offer.

EDS & Skills Strategies

– EDS consultation until 13th March 2018 – Skills Strategy consultation closed 2nd January 2018, final publication in May 2018 – Skills & Employment Framework published May 2018

Economic Development Strategy

(statutory)

Skills Strategy (non-statutory) Skills & Employment Framework

£7million investment to plug a growing digital skills shortage in London’s labour market with diverse, home- grown talent Supporting young women and young Londoners from diverse ethnic and disadvantaged backgrounds aged 16-24 years old Working with industry, skills providers & schools, women in tech organisations, youth & community groups and extra- curricular providers.

Mayor’s Digital Talent Programme

Outputs

1,000 young people access digital skills training 500 Uni students gain new skills & work experience with SMEs 400 ‘Educators’ receive digital skills training 2,000 young people access careers advice & information sign-posting 400 start-ups and SMEs access higher level skills

Skills Devolution

• The Adult Education Budget (AEB) is being

devolved to the Mayor from 2019/20

• AEB is also being devolved to other Combined

Authorities after a year’s delay:

• Greater Manchester, West Midlands, Sheffield City

Region, Liverpool City Region, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Tees Valley, West of England.

What is the AEB?

Delivered by:

• FE Colleges
• Local authorities
• Independent training providers (ITPs)

INCLUDES:

• 19+ skills provision
• Community Learning
• Discretionary Learner

Support

DOESN’T INCLUDE:

• Apprenticeships
• 16-19 provision
• Careers provision

Challenges

• Still many unknowns:
• Size of London’s funding allocation - dependent on

17/18 delivery to London residents

• Whether London’s allocation will be single or multi-

year

• 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

• Availability of administration budget for the GLA

Opportunities

• Ability to align the budget to the Mayor’s priorities

and needs of Londoners and London’s businesses

• Move to more outcome based commissioning
• Address identified needs in London (which are

different to national priorities, e.g. ESOL)

• Utilise remaining ESF (£135m) by matching it with

the devolved AEB – potentially doubling it into a £270m fund.

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

Comms & Engagement Plan

Activity How When Provider visits

• One-to-one providers visits by officers and

the Deputy Mayor

• December 2017 – March

2018 Mayoral Decision, confirming the Mayor’s intention to proceed with AEB devolution

• Mayoral Decision
• February 2018

FAQs/ communication note on AEB progress

• Core script on FAQs published on GLA’s SfL

webpages

• February 2018

Provider roundtables

• Roundtables to test and feed in views to

the developing AEB Framework

• March-April 2018

Governance confirmed and new boards/ strategic groups set up

• Quarterly meetings (tbc)
• From May 2018

Provider engagement events

• Regional and sub-regional events
• From May 2018

Press / political engagement

• Publication of the final Skills Strategy, SfL

Capital round and AEB Framework

• Mayor / Deputy Mayor visit to provider(s)
• May 2018

Website development and information bulletins

• Dedicated website pages
• Blogs and information bulletins
• Twitter account to be established for the

unit

• From May 2018