Why spotlight?
Understanding
the issues
What are we
doing now ?
What we need
to do
differently
Low Adult Skills in Salford
What is Spotlight?
Week
1
2-3
Stage
The Issue
Consultations
SPOTLIGHT;
Analysis of the
issue and its
cause and effects
on families,
individuals,
neighbourhoods
Learners,
Providers
(managers &
tutors), advisers,
employers, key
stakeholders,
schools/BEP, nonlearners
Project
Planning:
Key
Products
&
Tasks agreed;
Team established;
Resources identified;
Methods agreed ;
Stakeholders
Engaged.
4
Our current
response
Analysis of the
commissioning &
delivery systems;
structures and
incentives in the
delivery system;
‘Quick wins’ – supporting local ideas
5-6
Final report &
delivery plan
Immediate,
medium and long
term
commitments to
improve delivery;
Presentation to
panel of key
stakeholders
Why Spotlight on Adult Skills?
• Proposal by Skills Funding Agency
• Changing landscape: new challenges &
opportunities for Salford
• We need to improve the skills base if our
economy is to grow
• Low level adult skills has a high cost for
individuals, their families and communities
Who has been involved ?
Project Team
Consultations
Providers, Learners, Non Learners
Employers, Schools, Advisers
Reference
Skills and Work Commissioning Team
Adult Learning Team, Skills Funding Agency
Salford City College
Work Programme Primes
Community Learning Partnership
GM/AGMA
Work Based Learning
Salford University
Skills
Spotlight
Reference Group
SCC- Trinity Business Centre,
Jobcentre Plus, MediaCity Skills Broker,
Skills & Work/Next Steps, Salford CVS
Connexions, Head of Early Intervention
Head of Transformational Learning
Probation Economic Solutions,
SCC-Community Health & Social Care
Strategic Stakeholders
Leader and Lead member for Children’s
Services
Think Skills and Work Board
Strategic Partnership
Do our residents need skills?
Social Cost
Economic Costs
•Homelessness
•Ill-health
•Teenage & lone parents
•Offending
•Not voting
•Children with low aspirations & skills
• Skills at Levels 3+ linked to
improvement & prevention of decline in
areas
•5 times more likely to be workless
•Estimated cost to economy over £10bn
•£8,200 per year for those without L2
Numeracy
•98% Jobs close to those without
qualifications
• Estimated Cost to business in lost
productivity is £500 per employee per
year (e.g. SCC £1m per year potential
savings)
+
Yes they do!
Economic imperative….
Insert growth sectors
Salford’s economy needs people with the right skills
What skills does Salford’s economy need both today and tomorrow?
Key growth sectors: Digital and Media, Manufacturing, Financial & professional
All vacancies
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Sales reps
Care assistants
Telephone salespersons
Collector salespersons and
credit agents
HGV drivers
Customer care
Sales related occupations
Call centre operators
Cleaners, domestics
Marketing & sales
Hard to fill vacancies
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Sales reps
Care assistants
Telephone salespersons
Customer care
Call centre operators
HGV drivers
Sales related occupations
Cleaners, domestics
goods handling and
storage occupations
• Sales and retail assistants
Top 10 subject areas
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Skills for Life
Health & public service
Retail and commercial
Construction, planning
and built environment
ICT
Engineering &
manufacturing
Education and training
Business admin & Law
Arts, media and publishing
Leisure travel and tourism
Are Salford residents seeking the right skills?
What employers said about skills….
The skills training we need for employees
What we are willing to contribute
Higher level skills
Accredited skills
Softer, transferable skills
We will support our employees to learn
We should pay towards the cost of training
Sector specific and specialist skills
Employer Views
What we think of Salford residents
Why we are located in Salford
They have low skills levels
No particular reason
They are lower working class
We have no bias towards Salford, business needs are
the most important consideration
They are easy to recruit and train
Employers want to be part of the process.
If we don’t give them the skilled workforce they need,
they will look elsewhere
What learners, advisors & providers said…
What learners said…..
Barriers
Funding constraints from Level 2 to Level 3
hinders progression
Fear of losing benefits
Many had no qualifications
Learning/skills improve work & career prospects
Has a positive effect on children’s education
Has positive impact on health and well being
Transport
Valued delivery in community locations
Childcare
Desire to progress
Learners, advisors
& providers views
What Delivers & Advisors said………
Many learners in community provision are
below Level 1 in literacy, numeracy & IT
More wrap around support is required
Lack of confidence and poor communication
skills are critical issues
Increasing need for higher level skills e.g. IT
Advisors lack job market awareness
The skills identified to meet
Employer needs…
Good communication skills
IT skills
Vocational relevant skills
Recent work history
Work ready attitude
Skills in adult years
• Adults are 19+
• Skills levels are measured by
qualifications achieved or currently
being studied for
• Low skills are defined as Level 2 and
below
56.2% or 84,750 Salford Residents
have low skills
Stemming the flow-a twenty year legacy
Adult years
X
84,750 (56.2%) Salford
residents have low skills
Teenage years
X
Too few young people left
secondary education 5 good GCSE
passes
Foundation Years
?
Potential may have
been stifled and early
promise lost
Childhood years
X
Less than the national average
number of Salford primary schools
children achieving
….because today’s adults didn’t reach their full potential as children
and the economy no longer needs a large low skilled workforce
The skills picture today.........
Foundation Years
Achieving at least 78 points across the Early Years foundation Scale
60
50
54
40
52
53
53
57
43
30
20
England
10
Salford
0
2005
2006
2007
2008
Steady improvement in foundation learning
consistently above the national average
But poor parents’ skills can
limit children’s progress
2009
2010
By 7 children from poorer
families who were once in
the top 20% for cognitive
ability are likely to end up
in the bottom 20%
Skills in Childhood
% pupils at Keystage 2 achieving L4+ at English and Maths
84
83
82
81
80
England
80
79
78
Salford
76
77
75
74
72
70
2005
2006
60% Children in lowest
reading groups had low
skilled parents while only
2% had parents with high
skills
2007
2008
2009
2010
Steady improvement for 7-11
year olds at both English
and maths, now consistently
better than the National
average
Skills in Teenage Years
GCSE & equivalent results for pupils gaining 5 or more A*-C
including Maths and English
60
40
32.4
20
32
40.3
37.8
49.7
45.8
England
Salford
0
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
Achievements for L3 at 19
60.00%
40.00%
20.00%
34.50%
37.50%
41.50%
England
Salford
0.00%
2007/08
Only 27% of low skilled
parents have aspirations for
their children to continue
their education post 16
2008/09
2009/10
Achievements at 16 & 19 are
improving but still below
national averages
Adult Skills Trends
Gap between Salford and National Average
10.0%
8.0%
6.0%
4.0%
2.0%
0.0%
2001
02
03
L2
04
L3
05
L4
06
07
No Quals
More adults have qualifications notably basic and Level 4+
Falling behind the national average in Level 2 & 3
08
2009
Adult Skills
Salford Residents skills base
No Qualifications
17,000
Below L2
11,000
L2
29,000
L3
24,000
L4 and above
33,000
Salford Employment by Qualification
Level 4+
86.0%
L3
73.8%
L2
66.8%
Below L2
No quals
57.8%
30.1%
Salford’s low skills base is a
major contributor to
unemployment and directly
impacts on deprivation
Summary of skills achievements now?
• The pool of adults with low skills is still increasing
• There is an decrease in the number of adults with no qualification
• The gap between the national average and Salford continues to
widen in the adult population at Level 2 and Level 3
• Improvements at both Foundation and Key Stage 2 have improved the
skills of Salford children to a level above the national average
• Achievement at L2 at 16 and L3 at 19 are increasing but still below the
national average
•70% of the 2020 working age population are already over 16
• The higher the level a person is qualified to the more likely they are to
be in employment
• By supporting parents to develop basic skills to at least level 1 it can
have an effect on children’s skill levels
Two jobs to do tackling the stock and stemming the flow for this
changing economy
Where do we want to be?
Adult years
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Lower % of adults
with low skills
Teenage years

More young people achieving
and progressing
Foundation Years
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Children
starting life well
Childhood years
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Pupils leaving primary school
achieving better than average
We need to change how we do things to improve our skills base
Arrangements are complex, funding flows via providers
Est. £380m into Salford
FE & Adult Skills
Worklessness
Schools/16-18 Providers
We need to maximise outcomes of this investment
Our Partnership arrangements are just as complex and fragmented
National Government Departments
Sub Regional / AGMA
GM Employment & Skills Group
LEP
Provider Network 14-19 SR Group
Think Skills and Work Joint Commissioning Group
TSW Board
Adult
Learning
service
Children’s Trust
Salford 14-19 partnership
Salford
Learning
Partnership
Employer
engagement
group
CLP
CVS
Bridges to
Media City
WBL Provider Group
& Sub-groups
We need to change how we do things in Salford
A time of change
Adult Years
'Skills for Growth'
Freedoms and Flexibilities
Changing funding priorities
Market-driven provision
Teenage Years
Education Bill
Wolf Review
Greater autonomy for schools
Higher Education funding
Foundation Years
Refocusing of children’s centres
Tickle Review of Early years
Foundation Stage
Reduction in funding though LA
Childhood Years
Introduction of academies
at both primary & secondary
Changes to the curriculum
The landscape is changing, we need to change too
to get the best for Salford
Teenage Years - A time of change
Educational Reform - Education Bill, Wolf Review
• Increased focus on literacy and numeracy
• English Baccalaureate
• Review of vocational education
• Proposal for colleges to take learners aged 14+
• Raising of the participation age – 17 by 2013 and 18 by 2015
• Introduction of Free Schools, more Academies, UTCs - outside LA control
• Loss of EMA - Learner Support Fund and Pupil Premium
• Introduction of All Age Careers Service
• Careers education and work experience no longer statutory
• School responsible for securing independent IAG
• All age telephone and website via National Careers Service
• Higher Education Loans
• Statutory duty for local authority remains
We have to work with a changing landscape to stem the flow
Teenagers have many options
We have to make sure they make the right choices to progress
We have to make sure they gain the skills employers want
Good IAG is critical
Adult Years - A time of change
Freedoms and flexibilities for providers:
• National contracts, Single Adult Skills Budget
• Market-driven, demand-led, employer and individual needs
• Influenced and informed by local partners and stakeholders
• Overall reduction in funding and will reduce further
• New priorities for public funding:
Active
Benefits
Classroom
Workplace
19+
19-23
24+
19-23
24+
2011/12
Free ESOL
Free L2
Free L3
Free L2
Free L3
Free L2
Free L3
Free L2
Free L3
Free L2
Free L3
2012/13
Free L2
Free L3
Free L2
Free L3
L2 co-funded
L3 co-funded
(loan 2013/14)
Free L2
Free L3
L2 co-funded
L3 not funded
All years
Free Literacy and Numeracy for all
Apprenticeships co-funded (loan
2013/14 if 24+)
We have to influence the market to get the best for Salford’s employers and
communities, we have to add value to ensure priority groups are supported
Adults have many choices whether employed or workless
We have to make sure adults make good choices and progress
We have to make sure adults gain the skills employers need
Good IAG is critical
APPRENTICESHIP IN PLUMBING 2011
2011
L2 Mechanical
Engineering Services
2011
Tutorial Support
Key Skills L2 App; of
Number & Comm
2010
Learning Mentor Support
Cert in Basic
Plumbing
2009
Discretionary Funding Support
Intro to Basic
Construction
Dyslexia Support
L2 Adult Literacy &
Numeracy
2009
2008
Childcare Support
Learning Champion support
Low Confidence & Self Esteem
Everyday English &
Maths
2007
Every Day English
Mocha Parade
A LEARNER’S JOURNEY
Summary - what we need to do differently / better…..
1. minimise impact of complex national system and fragmented arrangements
have in Salford
2. work with schools, Academies and UTCs to get the best for Salford’s children
3. work with colleges and providers to get the best for Salford’s teenagers and
adults
4. influence the market to provide the skills needed for Salford’s economy to
grow
5. make sure teenagers and adults make the right choices to progress and gain
the skills needed by employers supported by good IAG
6. ensure at risk groups are supported and able to progress, closing the gap
The national landscape is changing, we need to change too
to get the best for Salford residents & employers
Can we trust the market will work?
Incremental change
Do nothing
Reactive responsive
Trust that the market
will work
No influence
loose partnership
still fragmented system
Some influence
Fundamental change
Proactive response
Collaborative delivery
Tight partnerships
Added value
Maximum influence
Or do we change, add value and ensure the best for
Salford residents and businesses ?
What do we have to achieve?
Ten key objectives:
1.
2.
3.
To increase the up take of L2 & L3
To empower deprived communities to drive up demand for learning
To ‘Stem the flow’ of young people becoming low skilled adults of
future
4. To increase engagement, participation, retention, progression and
achievement
5. To make Level 3 the level to which everyone aspires
6. To ensure skills provision responsive to local needs
7. To increase employability of local residents
8. To improve employer engagement and maximise apprenticeship
opportunities
9. To partnership readiness to collaborate & improve
10. To create efficiencies & better return on investment
How we will achieve this
By influencing and adding value
Collaborative strategy
and planning
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Integrated
Employer engagement
neighbourhood delivery • Sector route ways in
Joint Intelligence Hub • Community learning
digital media,
champions & wrap
construction and care
One partnership, joint
around support ( IAG) • Joint employer
team, joint
investment
• Extended provider
engagement team,
Network
incl. ‘skills broker
Joint ‘Skills and
Learning Plan’
• Early Intervention &
• Incentives for
prevention, skills
employers, individuals
Community voice:
assessments
& providers
employers, providers
& residents
• Enhanced neighbour- • apprenticeships
hood delivery
Joined up planning, investment & delivery
National Priorities
Overarching Priorities
Funding Eligibility
Procurement and Contracting System
Understanding Need
Planning and Deciding
LMI
Data and Intelligence
Employer Need
Individual Need
Overarching Strategy
Community Engagement
Stakeholder Engagement
Priority Communities
Priority Sectors/Quals
Prioritising
Reviewing
Delivery
Monitoring Outcomes
Evaluating Impact
Reviewing Priorities
Communicating priorities
to providers
influencing delivery
Stimulating demand from
employers and communities
Direct delivery
Procurement
Collaborating
Can we trust the market will work?
Incremental change
Do nothing
Reactive responsive
Trust that the market
will work
No influence
loose partnership
still fragmented system
Some influence
Fundamental change
Proactive response
Collaborative delivery
Tight partnerships
Added value
Maximum influence
Requires resourcing
and reprioritisation
No cost
Need to
maximise
existing
resources
No guarantees
targets groups
or skills
Some influence
on skills and
target residents
Maximum influence
Economies
through
partnership
Sharing risk
Added value
Support target
groups
Or do we change, add value and ensure the best for Salford residents
and businesses ?
One Salford - Skills and Learning Partnership
Providers: Schools, FE, WBL,
Third Sector & Work Programme
Joint Skills and Learning Plan
Shared priorities & intelligence
Partnership ‘Offer’
Co-ordinated skills brokerage
Joint investment
Less duplication & increased outcomes
Employers &
business brokers
Salford
University
Learning from good practice…..Bridges to MediaCity UK model
Putting ‘skills & learning’ at the centre of neighbourhood
delivery
Skills and
Work
Support
Housing
Advice &
Support
Drugs and
alcohol
support
Health and
Wellbeing
Skills &
Learning
Parenting
and Family
Support
Welfare
benefit,
money
advice
Offender
Management
support
Design Principles
• Skills and learning at centre of joint teams
• Clear roles for communities in planning and delivery
• Skills assessments embedded within Common needs assessments
• ‘Community Learning Champions’
• Skills and Training Zones
Sector Routeways work….
E.g. Salford Construction Partnership
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SCP products include; Skills Broker;
Shared Apprenticeship Scheme;
Construction Club
Skills Broker 2010/11
- 116 residents into employment
- 91 residents trained
- 70 sustained jobs
Shared Apprenticeship Scheme
- 10 L2’s
- 8 permanent jobs
- ‘Highly Commended’ at NW
Construction Awards 2011
Media City UK
- 52% of the workforce from
GMR
- 12,862 people trained
Media City
Workforce