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South East London Housing PartnershipHCA apprenticeships & skills activities

Liz Cowie28/07/2010

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Why is the HCA committed to promoting apprenticeships and employment and training initiatives?

Government commitment to maximising employment opportunities

Important in current economic climate – rising unemployment

HCA outcomes are about thriving communities; building capacity and capability in communities is key to this

Creating an employment and skills dividend

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HCA’s Employment and Skills outputs

Output heading HCA core output Sub-outputs contributing to core output

Apprenticeships(NAS-approved)

- Created

- Safeguarded

EmploymentInitiatives

- Progression into employment (unemployed less than 6 months)

- Progression into employment (unemployed more than 6 months)

Training Initiatives

- New entrants

- Existing workforce

- Skills culture

- School/college/university visits or School/college workshops or Work experience 14-16 or Work experience 16+

- Vocational qualifications or CSCS skills cards

- Short courses

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HCA London’s regional Employment and Skills targets

For the 08/11 period, the HCA nationally has been given the target of delivering 2,800 apprenticeships and training initiatives through NAHP and other housing pledge-funded projects

Based on baseline data from across various programmes, the London apprenticeship-specific targets are to deliver 403 newly created or safeguarded apprenticeships. To date, 21 have been delivered

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E&S Monitoring forms for NAHP-funded schemes

Discussed and agreed at AHPB

Single region proforma– NAHP: for RPs who only work in one region– LANB

Multi region proforma– NAHP: for RPs who work in two or more regions

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Single region proforma

For NAHP:Name, method statement, forecast apprenticeship numbers inserted by E&S team from Oct ’09 proforma

Regional staff fill in SOY allocation

The RP fills in the site details and outputs

For LANB:Regional staff fill out name, site details, approved allocation

LAs fill in outputs

Any comments or points to note are filled in per quarter

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Multi-region - Summary sheet

Name, method statement, forecast apprenticeship numbers inserted by E&S team from Oct ’09 proforma

Mark the regions the RP works in and will be reporting on (delete “X’s” where not applicable)

The ‘Achieved’ outputs on the Summary sheet are populated by a formula already inserted.

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Multi-region proformaRegion specific reporting

The partner fills in site details and outputs for each of the regions they work in

Any comments or points to note are filled in per quarter

Tabs at the bottom of the spreadsheet are ignored for regions they do not work in

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Return dates

Period Return Date

Q1 1 April to 30 June 14 July

Q2 1 July to 30 September 7 October

Q3 1 October to 31 December

7 January

Q4 1 January to 31 March 7 April

Return dates for ES monitoring forms are:

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Q1 Feedback from RPs

There is a widespread existing commitment, by most RPs, to the creation of Employment and Skills opportunities at the local level

A number of London RPs refer to the Notting Hill Housing’s Construction Training Initiative (CTI) in West London

The cost implication of Employment and Skills, especially apprenticeships, requirements needs to be considered

There are some significant difficulties in monitoring through the supply chain

Employment and Skills returns were required at too short notice for Q1 reporting on NAHP-linked outputs

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Next steps

Most RPs are starting to consult and create framework agreements for the creation and/or procurement of streamlined Employment and Skills opportunities

Many RPs are starting to introduce streamlined systems for monitoring Employment and Skills outputs on each contract on a monthly or quarterly basis

Some RPs are starting their own apprenticeship sponsorship schemes

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Issues for HCA

Advice is needed on the monitoring and evaluation of the apprenticeship and training profile and matrices

Best practice should be shared more widely: understand what other RPs have done, strategy and policy for implementation, procedures to be applied through the supply chain, etc.

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