EU Structural and Investment
Fund Growth Programme
Social Inclusion
Marches LEP and area’s voluntary
sector infrastructure organisations wish
to work together to determine how
partnership working can maximise
implementation of new Structural
Investment Fund (SIF) funding priorities.
In particular to consider cross LEP
working to design a commissioning
approach that will maximise the
delivery of social value and generate
an approach to LEP commissioning
that will ensure agreed priorities are
delivered against the future LEP
Strategic Plan.
Introductions
Specialists
DWP
Cabinet Office
Funding Team
Big Lottery
Aims of the workshop
 Present key national and regional drivers around social
inclusion
 Consider the EU Structural Investment Fund priorities
relating to social inclusion
 LEP commissioning against these priorities
 Existing & planned national programmes currently
addressing social inclusion
 Models of delivery and examples of best/emergent
practice
 SWOT analysis
 Working together
 Next steps
EUROPEAN STRUCTURAL
AND INVESTMENT FUNDS
ESIF 2014-20
Helga.Edstrom@cabinet-Office.gsi.gov.uk
Delivery Track Record:
Delivering public services worth £11.2 billion
Volunteering as alternative source of value
worth £23bn
Creating employment opportunities -priority
for 30% of SEs
Partnerships:
Scale and Reach:
900,00 Organisations
UK social economy estimated to contribute
over 4% of GDP
Contributes over 5% employment (more
than ICT or Finance & Insurance sectors
Focus:
Value driven
Used to working with private sector - 47% of
Work Programme supply chain
Tackling some of the most complex, and
costly social problems
Commercial skills and codes of practice
Often in the most (relatively) disadvantaged
areas
Transforming Local Infrastructure
Specialist delivery
Structural and Investment Funds (SIF)
EU Structural and Investment Funds
European Regional
Development Fund
(ERDF)
European Social Fund
(ESF)
• Research,
innovation,
business
development
(including SE ) and
infrastructure
investment
• Training,
enhancing access
to employment
and social
inclusion
• 20% Social
Inclusion
European Agricultural
Fund for Rural
Development (EAFRD),
• Will be aligned
with the European
Maritime and
Fisheries Fund
(EMFF). This
funding should
begin to come on
stream in mid2014.
Social Inclusion
 European Context
 The Europe 2020 strategy has a goal of promoting social
inclusion, in particular through the reduction of poverty;
 To lift at least 20milion people across the EU out of the
risk of poverty and social exclusion
 National Policy Context
 Governments Strategy for Social Justice “ Social Justice:
Transforming Lives” sets out the commitment to giving
individuals and families facing multiple disadvantage
the support and tools they need to turn their lives
around.
Social Inclusion: National Policy Context
 Focus on
• Prevention and early intervention
• Concentrating interventions on recovery and independence,
not maintenance
• Promoting work for those who can as the most sustainable route
out of poverty, while offering unconditional support to those
who are severely disabled and cannot work
• Recognising that the most effective solutions will be designed
and delivered at a local level
• Ensuring that interventions provide a fair deal for the taxpayer
Social Inclusion: National Policy Context
• This strategy is backed up by the Social Justice Outcomes
Framework
• Sets out specific priorities within the Social Justice Strategy
which identifies those working at the local community level,
from public, voluntary and community, and social enterprise
sectors as well placed to identify and drive forward the
solutions that are needed
• Welfare Reform,
• tax free childcare for working families,
• Commission on Childcare,
• Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission,
• Troubled Families Programme
The draft 2013 EU Country Specific Recommendations to
the UK include:
‘Step up measures to facilitate the labour market
integration of people from jobless households. Ensure
that planned welfare reforms do not translate into
increased child poverty. Fully implement measures
aiming to facilitate access to childcare services.’
Social Inclusion Priorities
EU Structural & Investment Funds Core Themes
CORE THEMES
Minimum spending levels at national level required by the
regulations
Less Developed
Regions
Transition
Regions
(Shropshire)
More Developed
Regions
Employment
Skills
Social Inclusion
(at least 20% value of
ESF)
At least 60% ESF
must be spent on
up to 4 subpriorities within
these themes
At least 70% ESF
must be spent on
up to 4 subpriorities within
these themes
At least 80% ESF
must be spent
on up to 4 subpriorities within
these themes
Thematic Objectives
 For ESF (but ERDF can also be used as well)
 TO 8: Promoting Employment and Supporting Labour Mobility
 TO 9: Promoting Social Inclusion and Combating Poverty
 TO10: Investing in Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning
 Due to the European requirement for at least 80% of European
Social Fund to be focused on four investment priorities in more
developed areas (and at least 70% and 60% in transition and less
developed areas respectively) for thematic objectives 8,9 and 10,
Local Enterprise Partnerships are encouraged to focus on activities
that would align with the following investment priorities:
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Investment Priorities
• Access to employment for job-seekers and inactive people,
including local employment initiatives and support for labour
mobility.
• Sustainable integration of young people, in particular those
not in employment, education or training into the labour
market.
• Active inclusion in particular with a view to improving
employability
• Enhancing access to lifelong learning, upgrading the skills and
competences of the workforce and increasing the labour
market relevance of education and training systems; including
improving the quality of vocational education and training
and the establishment and development of work-based
learning and apprenticeship schemes such as dual learning
systems
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How does it all fit together
 Important to remember that Social Inclusion is cross cutting and
will fit with other ESIF Priorities:
 TO 1- Innovation- skills, technical and higher level workforce
 TO 2 ICT- capacity, work placements
 TO 3 SME & Competitiveness- internships, specific programmes ,
HLA
 TO 4 Low Carbon- skills/ employment opportunities, land
management
 TO 5 Climate Change Adaptation training, watercourse, flood,
protection
 TO 6 Environmental Protection, habitat restoration, NEETS, Active
Citizens, recycling
 TO 7 Sustainable Transport-skills, drivers, qualifications bespoke
training
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Community Led Local Development
• Community Led Local Development is a method of using
European Structural and Investment Funds in a way which is
focused on smaller areas, usually much smaller than the
average Local Enterprise Partnership area, and typically
through small local community projects.
•
It is based on a partnership of public, private and civil
society contributors that come together to form a Local
Action Group and deliver change for their area through a
Local Development Strategy.
• This is similar to the Leader20 approach but open to nonrural as well as rural areas.
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BLF and “opt in” Match Funding
• All projects resourced from the European Regional
Development Fund and/ or the European Social Fund will
require “match funding”, as only a proportion of the total
project costs will be paid by European funds.
• The opt-in model works by national programmes/
organisations offering a mechanism for the delivery of Local
Enterprise Partnership priorities and/ or the provision of
eligible match funding.
•
In relation to social inclusion activities, Government asks
Local Enterprise Partnerships to opt-in to the offer from the Big
Lottery Fund unless they are able to find and set out
alternative sources of match funding for these activities.
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Local priorities
West Midlands data information:
 Economy
 Employment land
 Employment
 Housing
 Poverty
 Health
Centre for Local Government – West Midlands
May 2013
Discussion
Having considered the national and regional drivers, and the EU
Structural Investment Fund priorities relating to social inclusion:
 What are the implications for the Marches LEP?
 What might need to be considered?
Commissioning cycle
Review – monitor service
delivery against expected
outcomes and report how well it
is doing against the plan
Do – make decisions based on
the appropriate action identified
in the ‘plan’ section;
opportunities for collaboration or
partnerships need to be
considered
Understand - recognise local
outcomes, needs, resources
and priorities and agree what
the desired end product should
be. Involves shaping with
service users and with
providers.
Plan- map out and consider
different ways of addressing the
needs identified. How can they
be addressed effectively,
efficiently, equitably and in a
sustainable way?
LEP commissioning against these priorities
POSSIBILITIES
Providers
Commissioners
PITFALLS
Providers
Commissioners
Addressing social inclusion in the Marches
How are we currently addressing social inclusion?
What is planned?
BREAK
Models of delivery
 How are we currently addressing social inclusion?
 What is planned?
 What models are known and what best/emergent practice
do we know about?
 What is not known?
 What areas are we unsure of?
 Where do we need further research?
Readiness of the VCS to deliver projects
STRENGTHS
WEAKNESSES
OPPORTUNITIES
THREATS
Working together
 What themes could be worked on together?
 Cross LEPs?
 Cross boundary?
What next?
 What tasks need to be completed/undertaken before
engaging more fully with the sector?
 Who needs to do these tasks?
 What does the LEP need to do next?
Identify:
Key actions and who will do them.