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SELEP SKILLS UPDATE

Louise Aitken, SELEP Skills Lead EPN, 19th July 2017 CLICK TO EDIT MASTER TITLE STYLE LEP SKILLS SHOWCASE 7th JULY

• Attended by over 120 people • Speakers included former Skills Minister Robert Halfon, & Head of ESF Catherine Blair • Delegates received a booklet overview of LEP ESF and Skills Capital investments (available online) • Included stands showcasing programmes and training facilities Hosted by

Harlow CLICK TO EDIT MASTER TITLE STYLE College CLICK TO EDIT MASTER TITLE STYLE LEP SKILLS SHOWCASE 7th JULY

• Key messages from Robert Halfon: • Apprenticeships are essential and there are excellent retention rates (90%) in long-term employment from apprenticeships • We must support disadvantaged people into apprenticeships and ensure young people in schools are aware of opportunities CLICK TO EDIT MASTER TITLE STYLE LEP SKILLS SHOWCASE 7th JULY

• Skills ESF and Skills capital brochure: • Outlines all LEP Skills capital investment • Describes ESF programmes • Available on SELEP website Showcased Essex, SouthendCLICK TO & EDIT MASTER TITLE STYLE Thurrock investments

• Harlow Advanced Manufacturing & Engineering Centre (HAMEC) • STEM Training and Equipment at Braintree College • Centres for Excellence for Advanced Industrial Technologies and Engineering Manufacture • Digital Labs for the Construction, Health and Social Care and Science Sectors • Raising STEM Skills to Higher Levels, • Advanced Construction, Infrastructure and Telecoms, PROCAT • Creating a Centre for Logistics, South Essex College • Science to support the Health Professions, South Essex College • Industry Standard Surveying Equipment and Soil Laboratory for Technical Construction, • Construction facilities to support economic growth, South Essex College • E-Hub, Harlow College STEM Innovation Centre, Braintree, Colchester Institute CLICK TO EDIT MASTER TITLE STYLE Virtual Reality for construction, PROACAT Construction facilities, South Essex College Science Facilities before and after, South Essex College FUTURE: Technical & Professional Skills Centre at Stansted Airport CLICK TO EDIT MASTER TITLE STYLE Showcased ESF projects across the LEP Showcased ESF projects CLICKin TO EDIT MASTER TITLE STYLE Essex, Southend and Thurrock

• On Track Thurrock • Reed in Partnership ‘Work Routes’ • Gingerbread ‘Working Forward’ • SEETEC ‘Enhancing Apprenticeships’ • 4SX ‘The Way to Work’ • Digital Skills for people in • Ixion Connecting Choices employment, East Kent College (with local partners) • Enable East ‘Heads up’ • Ixion Holdings ‘Skills for Growth • Essex Rural Skills Project and Careers’ • Papworth Trust Community • Basic and numeracy skills in the Connections workplace, Skills Training UK CLICK TO EDIT MASTER TITLE STYLE LEP SKILLS SHOWCASE 7th JULY • Shared SELEP wide apprenticeship video

• Included a presentation from Essex Employment and Skills Board Vice Chair Alison Calnan CLICK TO EDIT MASTER TITLE STYLE LEP SKILLS ADVISORY GROUP • Includes representation from EPN, FEDEC, Essex, Southend & Thurrock Councils and voluntary sector • With thanks to SCTP, CXK and NCS, received funding for a series of apprenticeship videos across the LEP area • Overseeing the Skills Strategy (draft for comment next month) • Approved the first sample of Strategy Evidence Base information • Exploring an online portal through a Thurrock pilot • Agreed a letter to the ESFA and Skills Minister expressing concern with the allocation for non levy apprenticeship funding LOCAL DATA

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CLICK TO EDIT MASTER TITLE STYLE SKILLS STRATEGY: CONSULTATION EMERGING HEADLINES CLICK TO EDIT MASTER TITLE STYLE

• Virtually all respondents want a simplified landscape • Many have flagged the need for adult (in work and out of work) training and funding which is flexible • The challenges of Brexit, the apprenticeship levy and funding highlighted • Over half respondents have a negative experience of the skills system SKILLS STRATEGY: CONSULTATION WHO HAS RESPONDED CLICK TO EDIT MASTER TITLE STYLE SKILLS STRATEGY: CONSULTATION STILL LIVE! CLICK TO EDIT MASTER TITLE STYLE

http://www.southeastlep.com/skills/skills-survey

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HAVE YOUR SAY AND SHARE WITH YOUR NETWORKS!!

CLICK TO EDIT MASTER TITLE STYLE Apprenticeship videos and more!

• On new SELEP ‘YouTube’ channel includes the apprenticeship videos and more https://www.youtube.com/channel/ UCkA5bGNj1ss8Xm4OjM1Va6g

• You can try out the pilot skills portal at https://my.opportunitiessoutheast.co.uk

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FURTHER INFO http://www.southeastlep.com/ skills

SAVE THE DATE: 12th September ESF Workshop (London venue TBC)