Learning, Skills
and Innovation
Partnership
8th October 2015
Tracy Murphy
Tracy.murphy@kpmg.co.uk
City Deal Regions
Wave I
Bristol
Newcastle
Manchester
Birmingham
Leeds
Sheffield
Nottingham and
Liverpool
Wave II
the Black Country
Greater Brighton
Greater Cambridge
Coventry and Warwickshire
Hull and the Humber
Great Ipswich
Leicester and Leicestershire
Greater Norwich
Oxford and Oxfordshire
Plymouth and South West
Peninsula
Preston, South Ribble and
Lancashire
Southampton and Portsmouth
Southend-on-Sea
Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire
Sunderland
Swindon and Wiltshire
Tees Valley
Thames Valley Berkshire
Collectively, the deals from Wave I have the potential to create an estimated 175,000 jobs over
the next 20 years and 37,000 new apprenticeships.
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Summary of Ideas to support skills growth by Wave I City Deals
1) Creation of City Apprenticeship Hub to centrally promote and manage apprenticeship
provision and to promote growth of apprenticeships.
2) Developing an employer brokerage system to provide employers with skills advice and
guidance and to remove bureaucracy
3) Establishing Apprenticeship Training Agencies to act as an employment agency on behalf of
employers unable to employ an apprentice directly.
4) Promotion of Group Training Agencies, which are employer owned and led. This model
would enable groups of employers to each contribute towards the delivery of apprenticeship
frameworks and standards.
5) Development of a new programme for enterprise education in local schools
6) To form a unified job creation investment fund for Small and Medium Size Businesses
7) Establishing a Skills for Growth Bank – an employer-owned mutual to simplify skills funding
through grants and loans to businesses.
8) Improvement to the effectiveness of the skills system – by piloting a “payment by results‟
approach to adult skills
9) The Commissioning of Youth Unemployment Task Force.
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Summary of Ideas to support skills growth by Wave I City Deals
10) Implementing a Skills for Growth Compact. This will commit employers, colleges and schools
to building a best-in-class skills service to link pupils and learners with real-world work
opportunities.
11) To offer a Guarantee to the Young supported by a range of integrated pathways including
education, training, volunteering, work experience and apprenticeships, leading to jobs and
higher level qualifications.
12) Opening a 4-24 Apprenticeship Academy which will offer to young people of multiple routes
to employment starting from school age and leading up to higher education qualifications.
13) Piloting a skills tax incentive and locally determined outcome payments to providers
Full and completed bids for Wave 1 and submissions for Wave II can be found here.
https://www.gov.uk/search?q=city+deals
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Bristol
Implement a single skills investment plan linked directly to the West of England LEP jobs growth
agenda, and complementing capital investment through the Economic Development Fund, for
the whole of FE college post-16 provision with a total value of £114m.
Create a City Apprenticeship Hub to deliver an average of 5% per annum increase in 16-24
apprenticeship starts over 3 years (2013-15).
Develop and implement the business-led Charter Mark to enhance the employability of young
people entering the labour market.
Provide strong governance through the West of England LEP Skills Group with sustainable
collaboration between business, the city-region and learning providers.
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Newcastle
To improve employment opportunities, through: co-location of services, sharing of data, more
integrated working and co-financing between Jobcentre Plus and local services; implementation
of a more effective employer-led skills system, including through the Newcastle Skills Hub;
increasing apprenticeships by 15%; and delivering a locally-devolved NEET Youth Contract
Pathfinder across Newcastle and Gateshead.
We also intend to work with local apprenticeship providers and firms to reduce the cost and risk
of taking on an apprentice for SMEs, increasing apprenticeships by 15%, or 500. Government
funding, through the City Skills Fund, will be used support these activities.
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Sheffield
We believe we can play the key brokerage role necessary to stimulate businesses to invest in
skills and to incentivise colleges and providers to respond quickly and flexibly to the emerging
skills needs of key sectors. We will support small businesses in Sheffield City Region (SCR) by
removing bureaucracy.
Through this agreement, SCR will deliver 4,000 additional Apprenticeship places and
achievements, and 2,000 additional employees’ up skilled
The creation of a City Region Hub based on learning from the successful Opportunity Sheffield
brokerage model (developed using the City Skills Fund) which will include an Apprenticeship
Training Agency (ATA) and sector-based Group Training Associations (GTAs) that are organised
by employers and supported by colleges and providers where no single SME can afford to
employ the apprentice full time
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Nottingham
Work with the ESB to strengthen accountability on skills
Up to £1m for a Skills and Apprenticeships Hub
Notional ring-fending of up to 300 AGE grants to boost apprenticeships.
Use of the Innovation Code to support the delivery of provision and development of new
qualifications where gaps exist in the current offer.
Flexibility and to develop a Youth Hub to tackle unemployment.
Dialogue to develop a new programme for enterprise education in local schools.
Subject to business case, up to £0.3m funding to increase capacity in the Voluntary and
Community Sector to deliver qualifications to low skilled parents from disadvantaged
communities.
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Liverpool
Up to 10,000 Additional New Jobs Created with SMEs – from a unified job creation investment
fund for Small and Medium Size Businesses;
The Skills for Growth Bank – an employer-owned mutual to simplify skills funding through grants
and loans to businesses. Unlocking £20m skills co-investment from the Private Sector and
allowing businesses to reshape the skills system to deliver 6,000 Apprenticeships and help 7,400
people into work;
Significant improvement to the effectiveness of the skills system – by piloting a “payment by
results‟ approach to adult skills, where providers are rewarded when their services get people
into work or progress in work; and
Reducing long-term youth unemployment by half in three years – by Government supporting
directly (and through its contracts) the recommendations of an ESB commissioned Youth
Unemployment Task Force.
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Birmingham
Tackle the long-standing skills deficit that weakens our economy, by implementing a Skills for
Growth Compact. This will commit employers, colleges and schools to building a best-in-class
skills service to link pupils and learners with real-world work opportunities. Our ambition is to
recruit 25% of local businesses to the Compact by 2015.
3560 apprenticeships (AGE) grants to be delivered by March 2013;
We would also like to develop a gain-sharing arrangement whereby jobs created through specific
initiatives are rewarded financially through a share mechanism to recycle the benefit into further
development of the supply chain, skills training and creating a job-ready workforce. This model
could be developed first around Birmingham Energy Savers and then once proven, rolled-out to
other appropriate initiatives.
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Leeds
Transform the city region’s job market with progress on two fronts: a long-term ambition to move
to a ‘NEET-free’ Leeds City Region and to shape the skills investments of Government,
employers and individuals to align with the real growth sectors in our economy
Our first step is to offer a Guarantee to the Young supported by a range of integrated pathways
including education, training, volunteering, work experience and apprenticeships, leading to jobs
and higher level qualifications
4-24 Apprenticeship Academy in Leeds at the heart of an offer to young people of multiple routes
to employment starting from school age and leading up to higher education qualifications. These
will incorporate Apprentice Training Agencies delivering sustainable jobs with SMEs which would
otherwise not employ apprentices, supported by dedicated employer incentives in line with BIS
and LEP priorities.
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Greater Manchester
Create a City Apprenticeship and Skills Hub to place apprentices with SMEs, as well as
piloting a skills tax incentive and locally determined outcome payments to providers
Creating 6000 apprenticeships & 2000 adult skills programmes
To provide support to SMEs (information, contracting etc) through the Hub, where there are
capability or information gaps that prevent SMEs from functioning as effective customers for
skills. The Hub will also be used to make or broker 'deals' between groups of SMEs and skills
providers which secure a better return on the state's investment in skills
Development of agreements between providers and the LEP, to deliver LEP Priorities. These
agreements should cover all of the budget deployed in the City Region that is received by
providers from Government
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