ESF Launch Event
Peter Jones
Chairman
South East Local Enterprise Partnership
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Responsible for
whole €3.5bn ESF
Programme
ESF MANAGING AUTHORITY
14-20 Operational Programme
Skills, Employment,
Social Inclusion
Participants in work
& out of work
Allocates Money
Ensures
Compliance
Manages
Performance
Appraise OptIn Application
& Sign
Funding
Agreement
Launch Calls,
Appraise
Applications &
Sign Funding
Agreements
Project
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Opt-In Organisation
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Provider
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Provider
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No need to provide own match
LOCAL COMMITTEES
in LEP areas
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Project
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• Each Project applies in LEP area
• Each Project provides Own Match
Contracts with Providers in LEP area
Takes care of Match Funding
Provider
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Project
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Produce local ESIF Strategies – aligned to Growth Plans & used to inform ESF OP
Advice to MA on calls, local fit of projects & suitability of Opt-In delivery for local needs
Oversight of performance at local level
SELEP Escalator of opportunity
Mike Rayner
Skills Lead
South East Local Enterprise Partnership
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Escalator of opportunity
Advanced Level
Intermediate Level
Entry Level
Pre entry
Excluded
Overall Project
Higher skills (SFA)
Near the labour market (DWP)
Social Inclusion (Big Lottery)
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The Strategic Economic Plan said…
SELEP identified 3 main priorities for skills:
1. Improving the talent pool in support of priority sectors, particularly higher
level skills
2. Increasing participation of young people in work, education and training
with a focus on supporting priority sectors and skills gaps
3. Improving the basic skill levels and employability of our residents to boost
productivity and employment
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The ESIF Says:
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An Employer Portal to match employers with local training provision
Sector development work
Enhanced IAG
Apprenticeships
Work Experience
Reducing underemployment
Transition support
A range of employability initiatives
Literacy and numeracy
Community Learning
Bespoke employer-led higher level skills training
Retraining in key growth sectors
Skills Funding Agency (SFA)
£49m based on discussions
Endorsed by Board Dec 2014
Approved by Managing Authority 2015
Project areas:
• Increasing Apprenticeship numbers
• Supporting career choices
• Improving employer and provider collaboration
• Improving literacy and numeracy levels
• Increasing higher level skills
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SFA Opt in Roles and Responsibilities
• SELEP determines priorities through consultation
• SELEP develops Project Initiation Documents
• Calls for Applications are agreed with the Local Area
committees
• SELEP signs up to SFA opt-in MOU and partnership
agreement
• SELEP identifies future procurement priorities
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European Structural and Investment Funds
SFA Service Offer (the ‘Opt-in’).
Agency Role
Deliver the ESF element of the ESIF programme on
behalf of the Managing Authority.
Support LEP area level delivery of ESIF activity.
Agency Service Offer
• Advise and support LEPs to develop Procurement
Initiation Documents (PIDs)
• Develop specifications
• Procurement (via Bravo)
• Tendering and Evaluation Process
• Contracting and Managing Providers
• Performance Management Process
Agency Service Offer
• Operate and maintain systems and processes
to support delivery
• Provide data on activity being delivered
• Provide Match Funding
• Compile and submit ESF Claims
• Ensure compliance with audit requirements
• Manage risk.
Anticipated Timeline:
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Now: Draft specifications being prepared from the Procurement
Initiation Documents (PIDS) submitted by LEPs
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Now : Applications to Managing Authority for each LEP area. 1
application per Priority per LEP
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During June: appraisal of applications conducted by the MA
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End of June: Funding Agreements in place
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Mid July: procurement begins
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October: contracting begins
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December: delivery commences
DWP
£10m based on discussions
Endorsed by Board December 2014
Approved by Managing Authority 2015
• SELEP determines priorities through consultation
• Escalator of opportunity – middle step, near the labour
market
• Economic development at the heart of it
• Sector/Employability focus – starting and ending with the job
• Progression for participants from Big lottery and possibly on
to SFA
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SELEP Requirements (1)
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Funding for the beneficiary – no capital
Agile, not fixed premises
Responsive to local labour market needs
SELEP is employer led and in a position to articulate
employer needs
• SELEP to work with provider(s) to bring them into
LEP partnerships for ongoing employer intelligence
and feedback
SELEP Requirements (2)
Project outline and delivery
• Follow up leads with employers/sectors from local
partners to identify/confirm needs & generate
opportunities
• Eligible people referred into the programme
• Needs analysis; Key worker assigned
• Soft skills / job specific training / work place based
• Sustained employment or an Apprenticeship
SELEP Requirements (3)
• Geography - Location
• Priority & growth sectors
- now and in the future
• Volumes – Duration
• Eligibility - Funding Model
Opt-In Progress
• SELEP Requirements formally submitted to DWP 10 April 2015
• Cleared impacting across DWP Policy & Business, with some
questions for clarification which were turned around quickly
w/c 04 May
• No ‘show stoppers’ in the project as articulated by SELEP
DWP Procurement (1)
• SELEP involved at every stage - within ethical walls
• No more detail than today until ITT published
• ITTs fit with Managing Authority ESF ‘calls’
• DWP ESF Project team approx 12 week window
• SELEP have the final approval of Specification before
ITT is published
DWP Procurement (2)
• Financial Application to Managing Authority
• Financial Agreement from Managing Authority
• SELEP not in 1st tranche for July call
– Not the first to complete and submit Requirements, but
not the last
• Aiming for 2nd tranche
• Contract award ‘late Spring’ 2016
What can you do?
• Thank you for contributions & support so far
• Prepare to bid
• Prepare to welcome provider(s) and work with them
• How can we ensure all the ESF provisions add value?
• Communications
• Partnership & Collaboration
• Local intelligence/feedback – to SELEP & DWP
Big Lottery Background
• £8m + £8m cash match based on discussions
• Endorsed by Board December 2014
• Approved by Managing Authority 2015
• Consultation with a wide range of organisations
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Big Lottery – Feedback
• Keep it flexible
• Allow the sector to be creative
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Beneficiaries
• Those receiving health/disability
benefits
• Lone parents/carers
• Those unable to sustain employment
Areas of Focus
1. Gaps in Services/Overcoming Isolation
• Overcoming barriers to employment facing
those furthest from the labour market
• Sustaining meaningful employment and
overcoming isolation
2. Transitions
• Supporting a return to employment and reentry on to the escalator of opportunity
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North
Focus: Transitions
Participants: Health and disability
benefits claimants
Participant no: 292
Size: £1.17m
Focus: Gaps/Isolation
Participants: Health and disability
benefits claimants
Participant no: 568
Size: £2.27m
Focus: Transitions
Participants: Lone parents/carers
Participant numbers: 234
Size: £0.585m
Focus: Gaps/Isolation
Participants: Lone parents/carers
Participant numbers: 454
Size: £1.135m
Focus: Transitions
Participants: Unable to sustain
employment
Participant numbers: 234
Size: £0.585m
Focus: Gaps/Isolation
Participants: Unable to sustain
employment
Participant numbers: 454
Size: £1.135m
South
Focus: Transitions
Participants: Health and disability
benefits claimants
Participant no: 390
Size: £1.56m
Focus: Gaps/Isolation
Participants: Health and disability
benefits claimants
Participant no: 750
Size: £3m
Focus: Transitions
Participants: Lone parents/carers
Participant no: 312
Size: £0.78m
Focus: Gaps/Isolation
Participants: Lone parents/carers
Participant no: 600
Size: £1.5m
Focus: Transitions
Participants: Unable to sustain
employment
Participant no: 312
Size: £0.78m
Focus: Gaps/Isolation
Participants: Unable to sustain
employment
Participant no: 600
Size: £1.5m
Numbers
indicative
Projects within an area weighted towards health and disability benefits claimants and Gaps/Isolation
Why BBO?
Overall Vision for BBO
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OUR MISSION
Promoting social
Making a real
inclusion and
difference to
combating
communities and
poverty
the lives of people
most in need
OUTCOME 1
To maximise
the impact of
this funding
OUTCOME 2
To improve
access to
European Funds
by VCSE
organisations
The Big Lottery Opt In Offer
A Summary
1. How we differ from the other opt
ins
2. Supporting those furthest from the
labour market
3. Actual costs
4. No Payment By Results
5. Grants, not contracts
Application Process
Big Lottery development grants
• Outline
proposal
• Lottery
money
• Detailed
proposal
Tranche 2 Key dates
• October/November 2015 – Stage 1
Application
• December/January 2016/February (to
include Christmas break) – Stage 1
Assessment
• March – Stage 1 Decision Making
• March/April – Stage 2 Application
• May/ June– Stage 2 Assessment (there
are multiple assessment windows so this
is the earliest)
• July – Stage 2 Decisions and award
* All dates are subject to minor change.
Role of the ESIF Committee
Next Steps
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Launch programme in June
2015
Finalise Project Outlines for SE
LEP
Programme
material
and
guidance already available
online
Call for applications in SE LEP
area in October 2015
Monies awarded in SE LEP by
June/July 2016
Summary
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Skills Funding Agency £49 million,
DWP £10 million
Big Lottery £8 million
£1.8 million for Youth Employment Initiative in
Thurrock
• £8.25 million allocated to Community Lead Local
Development (CLLD)
• £5 million unmatched ESF?
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Next Steps
• DWP and SFA call July
• Big Lottery call October
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Escalator of Opportunity
Higher skills (SFA)
Near the labour market (DWP)
Social Inclusion (Big Lottery)
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For further information
Lorraine George: SELEP EU Funding Lead
lorraine.george@essex.gov.uk
Mike Rayner: SELEP Skills Lead
mike.rayner@kent.gov.uk
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