Agenda
•Welcome
•Healthy workplaces
•Workwise
•Walsall Works Update
•Funding Opportunities
•AOB / Questions
•Date of Next Meeting
Healthy Workplaces
Joe Holding
Public Health, Walsall Council
Workwise
Walsall Works
• Financial incentive to employers for Apprenticeships
• Pre-apprenticeship Programme
• Jobs brokerage
• Additional projects
Walsall Works Financial Incentive Criteria
• Young person
• 16 – 24 year old at start of apprenticeship
• From Walsall
• Employer
• Walsall premises
• Small to medium enterprise (Under 250 employees)
• Supported sector
Walsall Works Financial Incentive Criteria
• Employment conditions
• Apprenticeship
• Minimum 52 weeks
• Minimum 35 hours per week
• Meet wage conditions (NMW at age group)
Walsall Works Financial Incentive Sector Criteria
Walsall Works continues to focus on unlocking jobs within
enterprises from the growth sectors:
• Niche and high value manufacturing and engineering
• Environmental technologies and construction
• Financial, professional and business services
• Creative and digital services
• Health and social care
• Logistics
•Other sectors may be considered on a case by case basis
Walsall Works Financial Incentive criteria notes
• Focus on Walsall SME’s but will consider large
companies if they traditionally don’t take apprentices
• Employer committed to sustainable employment
• Employee to apprentice staff ratio of approx 2:1
Walsall Works financial incentive Pay rates
Age group
Old rates
New Rates from 01/10/15
16 to 17 year olds
£3.79 per hour
£3.87 per hour
18 to 20 year olds
£5.13 per hour
£5.30 per hour
21 to 24 year olds
£6.50 per hour
£6.70 per hour
Walsall Works Financial Incentive Amounts
• £3,000 for employers taking on a young person
aged 16 or 17 at a rate of £3.87 per hour
• £4,500 for employers taking on a young person
aged 18 to 20 at a rate of £5.30 per hour
• £6,000 for employers taking on a young person
aged 21 to 24 at a rate of £6.70 per hour
Walsall Works Pre-Apprenticeships
These offer each young people the support to get ready to
start a full apprenticeship through a 20-24 week course
which will enable them to gain :
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Literacy, Numeracy & ICT Skills
Employability Skills
Customer Care
4 week work placement
Intensive Job Search
Guaranteed job interview
Accreditation to a Level 1 qualifications
Walsall Works Pre-apprenticeship Programme
• Working with W.A.C.C on a hybrid Traineeship
programme for 16 – 24 year olds
• Sectors include Health and Social care, Sports,
Construction, Digital engineering.
Walsall Works Jobs Brokerage
• Working with all age groups
• Using contacts with developers, contractors and
partner organisations
• Advertising roles and supporting people into those
roles
Walsall Works other programmes
• Transitional Care Leavers
• Building Better Futures – View fund
• Partnerships with Black Country partners including:
City Deal – Working Together
Talent Match
Walsall Works in Numbers
• 33 Training providers accessing incentive for
employers
• 273 Employers receiving incentive
Walsall Works Outcomes for residents
• 514 Apprenticeships supported by incentive
• 435 Pre-apprenticeships
• 898 other positive outcomes including:
• 23 non-WW pre-apprenticeships;
• 416 jobs;
• 193 non-WW apprenticeships
Future Opportunities
• The
European Structural and Investment Funds
Programme provides funds to help local areas grow.
• Black Country LEP submitted Implementation Plan
• The Funds will run from to 2014 to 2020
• 3 types of funds involved in the programme
• European Social Fund (ESF)
• European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
• European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD)
ESF - Youth Employment Initiative
• Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) programmes in a number of Local Enterprise
Partnership (LEP) areas that demonstrated high levels of need amongst its
young people, this included the Black Country.
• This programme is designed to tackle youth employment from ages 16 to 29.
• The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for the ‘Call for
Proposals’ and the allocation.
• The timeframe for spending these EU resources includes the 2018 period
• The total funding available for the YEI programme in the Black Country is
£51m,
• EU funding of £17m, YEI funding of £17m Partner Match of £17m
ESF - Youth Employment Initiative
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The funding has to be targeted at getting 16-18 year-olds NEETs and 19-29
unemployed into positive outcomes such as mainstream education and
training, employment, Apprenticeships and Traineeships.
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In the Black Country, the Local Authorities of: Dudley, Sandwell, and
Wolverhampton, plus Talent Match have designed a programme that fits all
of the EU criteria.
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Dudley Council is the Accountable Body for the Black Country proposal.
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Notification of the success of the submission should be received by November
2015
ESF - Building Better Opportunities
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£23.7m allocated to the Black Country
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Building Better Opportunities tenders announced in June 2015
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Big Lottery identified as the opt-in partner
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Family Poverty – including troubled families (£3.4m)
Targeted Community Approach (£5m)
Financial and digital inclusion (£3.9m)
Employment support for the over 24’s (£10.7m)
• Stage 1 applications submitted on 3rd August 2015
• Successful applicants to be notified in Nov-Dec 2015
• Project Start date is September 2016
Question & Answer Session
Future Sessions
January 2016
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