2019 Kingston Upon Hull City Council
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Please ask for: Antony Spouse Telephone: 01482 613712 Fax: 01482 614804 Email: [email protected] Text phone: 01482 300349 Date: Thursday, 16 January 2020 Dear Councillor, Economy and Investment Overview and Scrutiny Commission The next meeting of the Economy and Investment Overview and Scrutiny Commission will be held at 09:30 on Thursday, 23 January 2020 in Room 77 . The Agenda for the meeting is attached and reports are enclosed where relevant. Please Note: It is likely that the public, (including the Press) will be excluded from the meeting during discussions of exempt items since they involve the possible disclosure of exempt information as describe in Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972. Yours faithfully, Scrutiny Officer for the Chief Executive Town Clerk Services, Hull City Council, The Guildhall, Alfred Gelder Street, Hull, HU1 2AA www.hullcc.gov.uk Tel: 01482 300300 Page 1 of 146 Economy and Investment OSC To: Membership: Councillors Abbott, Brabazon (DC), Burton, Chaytor, Drake-Davis, Dunstan, Gardiner, Healand, Herrera-Richmond (C), Williams Portfolio Holders: Councillor Brady, Leader of the Council Councillor Craker, Portfolio Holder for Culture, Leisure and Tourism Councillor Hale, Portfolio Holder for Economic Investment, Regeneration and Planning, Land and Property Officers: Mark Jones, Director of Regeneration Malcolm Relph, City Economy Manager Antony Spouse, Scrutiny Officer (x5) For Information: Reference Library (Public Set) Public Set: Reference Library Page 2 of 146 Economy and Investment Overview and Scrutiny Commission 09:30 on Thursday, 23 January 2020 Room 77 A G E N D A PROCEDURAL ITEMS 1 Apologies To receive apologies for those Members who are unable to attend the meeting. 2 Declarations of Interest To remind Members of the need to record the existence and nature of any Personal and Discloseable Pecuniary interest in items on the agenda, in accordance with the Member Code of Conduct. (Members Code of Conduct - Part D1 of the Constitution) NON-EXEMPT ITEMS 3 Minutes of the Meeting held on Thursday, 14 November, 2019 5 - 20 To approve the minutes as a true record. 4 City Centre and Local Plan Update 21 - 126 To update the Commission on the performance of the city centre and Local Plan. 5 Director of Regeneration Presentation 127 - 134 To update the Commission on any service, performance, strategy or policy issues that fall within the remit of the Commission. 6 Hull Truck Theatre - Annual Update 135 - 146 To receive the annual update from Hull Truck Theatre. EXEMPT ITEMS Page 3 of 146 Page 4 of 146 Economy and Investment Overview and Scrutiny Commission 9:30 a.m. Thursday, 14 November, 2019, Room 77, The Guildhall, Alfred Gelder Street, Hull, HU12AA Present: Councillors Abbott, Burton, Chaytor, Drake-Davis, Dunstan, Gardiner, Healand, Herrera-Richmond (Chair), Pritchard (substituting for Councillor Drake-Davis) and Williams In attendance: S. Gamble, Head of 14-19 Learning and Skills, Employability, Skills and Participation, Hull City Council S. Tomlinson, Employability and Skills and Participation Lead, Employability, Skills and Participation, Hull City Council C. Howell, Provider Manager, Employability, Skills and Participation, Hull City Council S. Pashley, Principal, Ron Dearing UTC T. Chalmers, Executive Director Employment and Skills, Humber Local Enterprise Partnership J. Blesic, Assistant Director, Human Resources and Organisational Development S. Sloan, Head of Learning and Development, Hull City Council P. Holloway, Arts and Culture Manager, Hull City Council M. Martins, Artistic Director and Joint Chief Executive Officer, Freedom Festival Arts Trust A. Codd, Assistant Director, Economic Development and Regeneration, Hull City Council A. Spouse, Scrutiny Officer, Committee and Scrutiny, Town Clerk’s Service, Hull City Council Apologies: Councillors Brabazon and Drake-Davis Page 5 of 146 Minute Number Action to be Taken by 23 DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST (a) Scrutiny Officer - AS Councillor Dunstan declared a personal interest in Agenda Item 5 (Minute 26) in so far as he was a Council nominated Director on Kingstown Works Limited and in Agenda Item 6 (Minute 27) in so far as he was a Council nominated Director on Hull Culture and Leisure Limited. Councillor Pritchard declared a personal interest in Agenda Item 6 (Minute 27) in so far as he was a Freedom Festival Arts Trust volunteer. 24 MINUTES OF THE MEETING HELD ON THURSDAY, 17 (a) Scrutiny Officer - AS OCTOBER, 2019 The Scrutiny Officer submitted the minutes from the October meeting for consideration and approval. Recommendations: Reasons for Recommendations: Agreed: a) That the minutes of the meeting held on Thursday, 17 a) N/A October, 2019, are agreed, and having been printed and circulated be taken as read and correctly recorded. P a g e 2 Page 6 of 146 25 POST-16 EDUCATION, LEARNING AND SKILLS (a -b) S. Gamble / T. Chalmers / S. Pashley (c -d) S. Gamble / T. Chalmers S. Gamble, Head of 14-19 Learning and Skills, Employability, Skills and Participation at Hull City Council, S. Tomlinson, Employability, Skills and Participation Lead, Employability, Skills and Participation at Hull City Council, C. Howell, Provider Manager, Employability, Skills and Participation at Hull City Council, S. Pashley, Principal, Ron Dearing UTC and T. Chalmers, Executive Director Employment and Skills, Humber Local Enterprise Partnership (Humber LEP) attended for the item. The Head of 14-19 Learning and Skills explained that the paper aimed to provide an overview of the current post-16 education, learning and skills landscape, including where we were as a City and what we needed to do to meet current and future workforce challenges. The Executive Director Employment and Skills (Humber LEP) advised the Commission that the Department for Education had placed a requirement on all LEPs to establish a Skills Advisory Panel to produce local skills data and analysis. Each LEP had received £75k funding to support the process. The LEP had worked in partnership with the Council to develop the commissioning and tender process and a company had now been appointed to carry out the work. The first set of data dashboards had been produced for the region. The data had not thrown up any huge surprises but it was the first time all the data had been brought together under a single banner and presented in such a way. It was hoped that the skills providers would use the data to help shape skills and training provision. The Employability, Skills and Participation Lead explained that the new Skills Advisory Panels (SAPs) were in essence morphing into the old Employment and Skills Boards. In terms of their remit they had been created to monitor workforce supply and demand within the local economy with a view to ensuring local labour market needs were being met. The Commission discussed: i. How much input the SAPs had from pre-16 providers and how the new data had influenced the development of the Industrial Strategy. The Executive Director Employment and Skills at the Humber LEP explained that the main focus was post 16 provision but the LEP did also work with schools. The SAP data sets ran to 39 pages most of which was available in the public domain. The data had been used to shape the ‘people chapter’ of the Industrial Strategy. The Employability, Skills and Participation Lead advised the Commission that the terms of reference for SAPs were prescriptive in terms of membership, and the membership included schools. P a g e 3 Page 7 of 146 ii. The future for the 40% of Ron Dearing UTC pupils who had not gone into full time apprenticeships. The UTC Principal advised the Commission that the majority of pupils’ who had not entered an apprenticeship had either gone on to university or into work. The links with their employer partners were what made the system so effective. iii. If other schools in the City could learn from the UTC’s approach. The UTC Principal felt it would be difficult to replicate elsewhere given the requirements of the education system and national curriculum. The UTC had been set up in conjunction with its employer partners and they continued to work with them across all areas. The curriculum included the core subjects required by the Department for Education but beyond that they worked with their partners to develop the other elements of the curriculum and the options for pupils. Pupils learnt the theory in the classroom and then applied that theory to real projects in conjunction with employee partners. Her relationship with the employee partners was just as important as her relationship with UTC management team. She felt it represented a culture shift other schools would have difficulty embracing. In practical terms employers had stopped moaning about the skills gap and done something about it. The Employability, Skills and Participation Lead explained that historically most secondary schools had a strong academic base, the development of UTCs allowed for a bit more freedom. Nationally, some UTCs had not done so well, including the UTC on the south bank. The Ron Dearing UTC had to be commended for its approach, including the level of integration and success to date. The UTC Principal explained that the school still had a strong academic base but it offered academic and applied learning with a strong technical element. None of the sixth form qualifications offered were anything less than A-Level standard. iv. Whether the qualifications offered in the City were meeting the demand of the local labour market. The UTC Principal outlined how they worked with partners to shape the curriculum as well as developing an understanding of the individual skills and strengths employers were looking for. v. If the UTC mapped where their pupils were coming from and if it was from all parts of the City, including more deprived areas? The UTC Principal advised the Commission that they took pupils from all the secondary schools in Hull as well as schools in the East Riding.