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2. Aims for the day
• Update on the Technical Assistance Project
• Skills Support in the Workforce – Partnership Opportunities
• LLEP - ESF Consultation Findings
• Workshop: Collaboration and Partnership Building
5. Outreach
• Met with 5 groups this quarter
• Discuss ESF programme in detail
• Your current projects
• Collaboration Opportunities
• Potential ideas for new projects for ESF funding
6. How to Guides
• Guides available:
• Match Funding
• Building Consortia
• Project Planning
• Coming soon:
• Running a Direct Spend Project
• Available online:
http://www.valonline.org.uk/groups/forums-voice/technical-assistance/how-to-guides
7. Training Sessions
• We ran two training sessions in July and August:
• Marketing Your Organisation
• Pitch your group successfully in 30 seconds
• Running a Direct Spend Project
• Understanding the difference between direct and indirect costs and
costing out staff
10. Three LLEP commissioned
projects to meet skills needs:
• Leadership and management skills project:
• http://www.llepbizgateway.co.uk/hiring-training/funded-training/lep-leadership-
management-skills-support-workforce-leicester-leicestershire/
• ‘Open Doors’ Skills Metro project:
• http://www.llepbizgateway.co.uk/hiring-training/funded-training/open-doors-skills-
metro/
• Business Enterprise Skills project
• http://www.llepbizgateway.co.uk/hiring-training/funded-training/skills-support-
workforce/
11. The Leadership and
Management Skills Project
• Over £1.8m to deliver fully funded (i.e. free) training for 500 SMEs
within the private and third sectors
• Wide range of management topics available including team leading,
project management, strategic management and change management
• Units from qualifications or bespoke non-accredited provision from
Levels 2 to 4, including taster modules
• Tailored to meet business needs and delivered in a way to minimise
business disruption
12. What is on offer?
Professional courses and qualifications to suit any organisation:
•Strategic management
•People management
•Financial management and accountancy
•Stakeholder management
•Change management:
•Project management:
•Quality management
•Sales and marketing management
17. • Desktop review of underlying economic evidence, changing labour market
and trends since 2013
• Voluntary Action Leicester Technical Assistance Forum 6th
June
• Online survey consultation: link from the LLEP website and wide
distribution – live until the 21st
July
• Consultation Event – 13th
July at City Hall, Leicester
• Opportunity for an interview with key partners, delivery bodies and
members of LLEP People Board
Research into Future Open Calls
19. • Period of uninterrupted economic growth, creating around 25,000
additional jobs in Leicester and Leicestershire since 2013
• Growth in per capita Gross Value Added is the 6th
highest of English
Local Enterprise Partnerships
• Employment rate has risen and unemployment has fallen faster than
the national average (by 65% since 2013)
• Youth unemployment has also fallen rapidly and there has been a
reduction in NEET rates
Changing economic circumstances
20. • Ageing workforce creating replacement demand and increasing skills
shortages in businesses, some parts of Leicestershire have falling working
age population bases
Changing economic circumstances
21. • Reduction in overall level of skills available to the economy through
demographic and structural changes in workforce
Changing economic circumstances
22. • Reduction in overall level of skills available to the economy through
demographic and structural changes in workforce
Changing economic circumstances
23. • Whilst employment has increased, low average earnings remain an issue
Changing economic circumstances
24. • Employment Rates for BAME individuals remain lower than overall
employment rates
Employment Rate for BAME residents and overall Employment Rate (December 2016)
Changing economic circumstances
25. • IB/ESA claimant rates for those aged 55-64 from 2013 to 2016 have
increased whilst the claimant count has fallen
IB/ESA Claimant rates for those aged 55-64
Changing economic circumstances
November 2013
November
2014
November
2015
November
2016
Leicester and Leicestershire
3.42 3.79 4.58 5.45
Leicester
6.29 6.85 8.29 9.69
Leicestershire
2.33 2.61 3.13 3.78
England
3.49 3.98 4.51 5.59
East Midlands
3.24 3.66 4.54 5.77
26. • Changes in composition of new emerging communities, in some
cases quite rapidly
• Access to services and employment remain an issue in rural
areas and some communities
• Disadvantaged communities still in relatively the same position
• Whilst NEET classifications have fallen, there are still high
numbers of young people in situations at risk of NEET
• Number of people on benefits with caring responsibilities has
been increasing
Changing economic circumstances
27. Thematic Objectives 8 and 9
Provision ending in March 2018 Potential Gaps in Provision
Some NEET Provision Support for some BME groups – with
links to additional work focussed
ESOL provision
Employment Gateway service Support for those with low level
mental health problems/disabilities
to access employment and training
Accessing employment in growth
sectors
Support for over 50s to play an
enhanced role in the labour market
Specific support to ex-offenders
28. • Should open calls be released for Social Inclusion (IP 1.4) at this point in
advance of any formal notification from the Big Lottery Fund about future
participation
• Is additional Young Persons/NEET activity needed and desirable? Where
should the emphasis be placed? Is there enough resource in IP 2.2 or is it a
Social Inclusion IP1.4 project?
• Are any of the existing projects that end in 2018 essential, would they work
as Open Calls?
• Health has arisen as a growing issue – does it make sense to put out activity
that might compete with the DWP Work and Health programme?
• Given the level of resources available for over 25s, would targeted provision
be a sensible use of resources? Older people generally seem to be a growing
issue
Key areas to consider in future calls
29. Thematic Objective 10
Provision ending in
March 2018
Potential Gaps in Provision
Skills Metro Support to enhance the employability of graduates and
support enhanced retention
Business and Enterprise
Skills
Enabling the development and delivery of Higher Level
Apprenticeships
SME Leadership and
Management Skills
Leadership and Management support aimed at support
SMEs with Skills Development, HR and workforce planning
Specific activity to develop vocational STEM skills
Skills to support growth in key sectors, particularly given
major capital investment in facilities and infrastructure
Support for those who are in unsustainable or low paid
employment to move up the career ladder, particularly in
the provision of transferable skills
30. • Strong evidence based and well consulted series of
interventions in Leicester and Leicestershire to progress IP1.1,
2.1 and 2.2 to 94% commitment
• Programme of activity that meets the changing requirements of
the Leicester and Leicestershire economy
• Evidence base and subject matter for any additional calls that
may be required
• Deliverable series of calls with the underpinning of research
and consultation to attract potential providers
Conclusions
31. • Report and presentation endorsed by ESIF Committee on 30th
September 2017
• Draft Call Specifications submitted to DWP on 6th September
2017
• Awaiting response and further information on timings of call
release prior to endorsement of final specifications by ESIF
Committee
• Full Report published at ERDF Dissemination Event 19th
October
2017
Next Steps
34. Workshop
1. In what ways can your group contribute to a potential ESF
project?
2. Are there any organisations you currently work with/are aware
of that would make ideal partners in an ESF project?
3. How would you prefer to be informed of potential partnerships?
35. Upcoming Dates
• LLEP – ERDF: PA1 Call Launch Event – 25 September
• LLEP – ERDF: PA4 Call Launch Event – 25 September
• LLEP – ESIF Dissemination Event – 19 October
• Volunteering Network – Wednesday 25 October
• Health and Social Care Forum - Tuesday 21 November
• Children, Young People and Families Forum – Tuesday 12
October
Average GVA per head: £21,900 compared with £23,050 nationally (2015).
Earnings and hence consumer power in Leicester are low at £412.30 per week compared to an average of £523.60 per week in England)
In 2015, 32.5% of the working age population in the LLEP area were qualified to Level 4 or above, compared with 36.7% of the working age population nationally. A smaller skills deficit exists at Level 3: 56.1% of the LLEP working age population are qualified to at least Level 3 compared with 57.1% nationally.
Across Leicestershire there - more investment in skills:
Drives employee performance, raises their confidence and wellbeing and improves the quality of the overall of what the business does.
Enables workers to be more versatile to respond to different workplace challenges and stay competitive in the labour market
Enables businesses to recruit from a strengthened talent pool and have better placed recruits to aid the growth of their business
Managers, Directors and Senior Officials are underrepresented in the LLEP area. These occupations typically deliver higher GVA
Demand or managers and senior officials is forecast to increase in the LLEP area by 3% between 2015 to 2022 – an increase of 1300 jobs!
Nearly three quarters (70%) of the employers consulted for the study expect leadership and management skills to become more important to their business over the next three years. Currently, a lack of finance, strategy and business management skills amongst smaller businesses is impacting upon growth. Difficulties are also reported in filling the skills gap between supervisor and manager, especially in the manufacturing sector and especially in relation to lean manufacturing and Six Sigma techniques
Employers say this is due to a combination of not having the in-house training capacity to develop these skills and external training being, in their view, prohibitively expensive.
Three quarters of the businesses who reported a shortage of job applicants with the required skills said this was a particular issue when recruiting managers and senior officials.
Skills for the Future, York Consulting on behalf of the LLEP , 2016
Give out concertina leaflet/training catalogue
Many options to choose from and a small sample listed on the slide – much more available but actually nailing down what a business needs as opposed to what it wants is critical. Our expert skills advisors are available to discuss what your ideas and plans for growth are, how upskilling / training staff can make a difference and then develop a package of support that fits into your ideas and plans for growth
Keen to work in partnership with public and private sector intermediaries to engage with as many SMEs and their employees – huge opportunity to make a sizeable difference to the Leicestershire economy and the prospects and quality of life for its residents.