Michael Heanue

Learner Services ManagerSkills Directorate

Overview

•Skills Funding Agency

•Integrated Adult Careers Service

•Skills Accounts

•Programmes for the Unemployed

•Offender Learning

Skills Funding Agency

Profile funding for providers

Issue funding guidance for providers

New flexibilities to meet the needs of local communities: employers and learners

Changing landscape

Profile funding for providers

Issue funding guidance for providers

New flexibilities to meet the needs of local communities: employers and learners

Changing landscape

Integrated AdultCareers Service• IACS will have a strong public brand and a

national and local footprint – next step

• Local delivery of information and advice a vital part of the service including closer working with JCP and Probation

• One phone number, one website and one high street brand (face- to face)

Face to face service

• Identification of personal goals and targets• Skills and Career assessment• Skills action plan agreed with the customer• Support for learning, career progression and

job search• Help in accessing skills accounts

Intensity and frequency of the service depends on the customer profile, needs, assessment of their situation and outcome needed

• Employability skills programme

• Response to redundancy

• Six month offer (work focused training)

• Young persons’ guarantee - routes into work

Programmes for the Unemployed

Employability Skills Programme

(ESP)•ESP aims to improve basic literacy/language (ESOL), numeracy and employability skills for JCP customers

•All JCP customers aged 18 and over may be referred to the programme if they have basic skills needs

•Provision is delivered on a full-time (>20 hours pw) for 15 weeks or part-time basis (< 16 hours pw) dependent on learner need and number of courses undertaken

•Fares, child-care and training allowances may be payable

•10 providers across 6 JCP districts

Response to Redundancy What it is

Short Length - 2 to 8 weeks full or part-time.

For - Adults 18+ under consultation of, or notice of

redundancy, recently redundant or long term

unemployed

•Links to labour market needs/current

vacancies

What it isn’t

Not necessarily a qualification

Not totally re-skilling

Long courses of a few hours per week

(eg 26 weeks x 2 hours per week)

Six month offer: work focused

training (FE providers)

What it is• Contributes to vocational qualification

at L2/L3

• Short length (eg 2-8 weeks)

• Intensive (eg 15 hours per week)

• Substantial impact on individual’s

skills

• Flexible delivery – monthly intakes

What it isn’t• Stand alone basic skills (literacy or

numeracy)

• Very short courses/tasters

• Long courses of a few hours per

week

(eg 26 weeks x 2 hours per week)

Routes into work• Young people aged 18-24, approaching 6 months’

unemployment• 9 sectors – retail, hospitality, leisure travel and

tourism, facilities management, security, contract centres, construction, logistics, health

• Pre-employment training of up to 8 weeks• Linked to existing vacancies• 11 providers across London

Young Persons’Guarantee

Link to Skills Account website

www.direct.gov.uk/skillsaccounts

Offender learning

Custody - OLASS

Kensington and Chelsea College delivering across nine London prisons, including HMP/YOI Isis

Community

Improving access to mainstream services JCP / ESF / next step

Michael.heanue@skillsfundingagency.bis.gov.uk