Project - Work Based Learning in the Changing Landscape: The project aims to enable WBL providers in the Yorkshire and Humber region to work together in response to the new single adult skills budget, develop collective and collaborative arrangements, agreements and protocols to address the challenges of increased employer contributions and effective employer engagement.
Aims:
The region needs to increase its economic and social prosperity and skills are seen as a major solution. The employer need is still there and new markets are emerging for providers able to adapt, in both what and how they deliver. Significant numbers of adults in our region still lack the skills they need to find and keep work and to progress within work. The learner need is at least as great as ever.
The new single adult skills budget, with its increased freedoms and flexibilities offers a real opportunity for WBL providers willing to adapt and adopt new ways of working. In this new landscape providers must also continue to improve the quality of what they deliver.
WBL providers in the region have a long history of engaging successfully with employers for the delivery of government funded work based learning, which in recent times primarily included Apprenticeships and Train to Gain. The new Adult Skills Budget brings greater freedoms and flexibilities, but there is also a challenge with the changes to learner entitlement and required collection of employer contributions. Many WBL providers need to develop new ways of working with employers to further increase Apprenticeships, whilst implementing the new Adult Skills Budget and developing effective arrangements for the collection of employer contributions. Those providers that have delivered Train to Gain will also have to manage down the expectations of employers that have received free training, whilst working with the new Adult Skills Budget to develop an attractive employer offer.
This project has the following two key aims:
The main focus will be the further development of WBL providers to meet the challenges of the new Adult Skills funding arrangements, increasing Adult Apprenticeships and increasing employer contributions through new and effective arrangements, agreements and protocols, providing an attractive employer offer.
The project will achieve the following outcomes with WBL providers in the region:
Additionally the project will deliver the following Outputs:
Impacts and benefits:
The key benefit of this project is the consistent approach to the collection of employer contributions by WBL providers, within sector subject groups or industries across the region. These sectors have been selected due to their driving demand for skills and being of economic significance in the region, as identified by the Skills Funding Agency.
The project will enable an improvement in the way WBL providers work with employers, as a result of the activities developed and delivered through this project. Providers will measure the impact of their interventions with employers and employers can identify the impact of the provider interventions. This results in improved employer satisfaction and increased employer contributions.
The agreements, protocols and arrangements for employer engagement developed through this project and utilised by the participating WBL providers, will be cascaded across all WBL providers in the region through the WBL network organisations. This information and the successes achieved can be shared nationally and across sectors.
If you want to be involved or sign up for any of the working groups please contact jane@avantpartnership.co.uk
Project - Work Based Learning in the Changing Landscape: The project aims to enable WBL providers in the Yorkshire and Humber region to work together in response to the new single adult skills budget, develop collective and collaborative arrangements, agreements and protocols to address the challenges of increased employer contributions and effective employer engagement. …
There are a range of options and challenges facing providers, most notably the introduction of Minimum Contract Levels (MCL) by the Skills Funding Agency. Avant Partnership has developed a model that is attractive to any organisation wanting to continue delivery, whilst retaining their individuality.…
