Strategic Plan 2016 - 2020 cambria.ac.uk

OUR 2020 VISION Leading for Excellence in Education & Skills

INSPIRE. INNOVATE. SUCCEED. OUR CAMBRIA VISION

To be a leading education and skills organisation - internationally recognised for excellence in all that we do.

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OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU Welcome from Chair and Chief Executive Officer

Thank you for taking the time to read our latest Strategic Plan; “Our 2020 As proud as we are of these successes, we Vision – Leading for Excellence in Education & Skills”. This new plan now need to look forward, adapt and grow. We’re only as good as our latest performance - has been developed with students, staff and key stakeholders, and was developing and delivering our plan for the next approved by the Cambria Board of Governors in July 2016 - it aims to four years is crucial. Our overriding priority is safeguarding and supporting active build on the resounding success of Cambria since its formation in August still to deliver excellent teaching and learning, and supportive citizenship. 2013. in order to stretch, challenge and inspire all learners to explore and achieve their full Qualification and apprenticeship success rates Our 2013-2016 Strategic Plan, was published on 5 August 2013, at the formal launch of potential. alone are no longer sufficiently robust measures Cambria by the First Minister of . This “Vision for Excellence” has served us very well of institutional performance. Additionally, over the following three years. All key priorities and targets have been met or exceeded, Our Plan recognises that we live in changing measuring our success through progression is with particular highlights being: times, with many opportunities, but also now the key measure - we must ensure that our significant challenges across North East students meet their potential and move from Wales and across the wider cross-border our courses into jobs, higher apprenticeships socio-economic region that we serve. The EU and onto the very best university courses. referendum outcome, the and cross-border Growth Bid, Deeside Enterprise This Plan is not “War and Peace” - we believe Zone, Cheshire-Warrington Area Based Review, strongly in actions speaking louder than • Major expansion and the outcomes of the Diamond and Hazelkorn words. The Plan succinctly sets our ambition improvements to our estate, reviews, are all developments to which we need in terms of our commitments, our culture, our including the Deeside 6th to confidently respond. It is essential that we objectives, and our targets and key results. • Our excellent and sector- Form, and our University continue to offer the highest possible services Progress on the Plan and its associated annual leading FE inspection by Engineering Centre. in all that we do - raising skills levels, even more operating plans will be regularly and forensically in November 2015, influenced effectively meeting the needs of employers, scrutinised by our Board. We will also continue in particular by the outstanding and developing our offer to ensure that it is to report on progress at an annual public success and achievements of appropriate and increasingly meeting Higher meeting, at which we will publish our Annual our learners. level skills demands. Report - an open, transparent and honest update on Cambria. • Consistently excellent financial We will also continue to be a proactive and performance. partnering organisation in our communities, Thank you again for your interest and support, • Sector leading success in playing our part in reducing the impact of and we look forward to working with current WorldSkills UK, and indeed social disadvantage, providing for students and new partners to deliver our new 2020 more generally in national with additional learning needs, promoting Vision. and international skills and • Significantly expanding our Welsh enterprise competitions. language provision across North East Wales, and the creation of our Camu Welsh Language Centre in . John Clutton David Jones OBE DL • Successful and expanding links with Chair of the Governing Body Chief Executive Officer employers across North Wales, and into the North West of England.

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OUR CULTURE Cambria Behaviours

Learner and Customer Respectful and Transparent Financially Aware Embrace Change Focused - Listening and supporting - treating - Making financially informed - Working flexibly - Meeting learner and other everyone with respect decisions - Seeking opportunities and being external and internal customer - Acting consistently - Working efficiently and sustainably positive about change needs - Working collaboratively - Delivering excellent value - Helping others to embrace change - Acting professionally - Celebrating diversity and - Having excellent standards multiculturalism - Encouraging the use and development of the Welsh language

Lead with Passion Develop Ourselves and Others Dynamic Implementers - Working enthusiastically and with - Inspiring and celebrating the success - Challenging ourselves to be the best pride of others - Delivering solutions - Valuing the contribution of others - Making time for others and acting as - Taking responsibility - Leading by example a critical friend - “Making it happen” and completing - Developing ourselves - personally and tasks early or on time professionally

Meet Employer Needs Innovative Partnership Orientated - Developing mutually beneficial - Researching and being creative to - Actively networking relationships with employers improve - Developing mutually beneficial - Delivering excellent service for - Learning from failure to get better partnerships amongst our teams employers, and exceeding their - Questioning established ways of doing and with other organisations expectations things - Celebrating and sharing the credit - Piloting ideas and trying new things for joint achievements

These behaviours define the attitudes and standards that They are the key we expect of everyone at Cambria. They are derived to us achieving the from our “Core Values” and priorities, standards provide the foundation for our and targets that we ethos - they are actively used have set in this plan. and visible across Cambria.

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OUR PLAN OUR AMBITION FOR ACTION Priorities 2016 - 2020 People

INSPIRE. INNOVATE. SUCCEED.

WHAT DOES Develop an extensive and wide-ranging THIS MEAN? Cambria Apprenticeship Programme to develop our own future talent. Recruit, develop and retain Cambria is a “people a proactive, diverse and agile workforce that is able organisation” - students, staff, to innovate and exceed governors and partners. student and customer We’re committed to SUCCEED in expectations. all that we do.

Be the employer of To achieve this we need everyone choice that motivates, to be INNOVATIVE. empowers and offers Fundamentally the key exceptional development to our development and For this to happen we need opportunities for all staff. continued success is the performance of our staff leaders at all levels who INSPIRE. and this will continue to be the focus of all our work.

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OUR PLAN FOR ACTION Priorities 2016 - 2020 Customer

Deliver a relevant and valued offer, aligned to the needs of employers, to support economic and social growth, and meeting local, regional and national priorities.

Increase the number of learners progressing to employment, apprenticeships or Deliver our HE Strategy, higher level study. expanding Higher Education and Higher Apprenticeship learning opportunities, to meet employer needs and emerging employment opportunities. Achieve sector leading success in national and international skills and enterprise competitions.

Ensure equality of opportunity and a learner-first culture is maintained across all services and functions, championing the learner voice to provide the best possible experience.

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OUR PLAN FOR ACTION Priorities 2016 - 2020 Society

Support the economic Ensure that our learners have development of the regional the literacy, numeracy, ICT, and Welsh economy through a entrepreneurial and employability comprehensive and integrated skills that equip them for a employer engagement and productive working life. business development service. Deliver a community benefits strategy to support and enrich the social, cultural, economic and physical well-being of the wider communities served.

Extend Welsh language bilingual opportunities, including effectively delivering our new Learn Welsh contract in Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham, and developing and growing Camu, our Welsh Language Centre in Wrexham. Maximise the commercial, community and business opportunities to be presented by the new HMP Berwyn offender learning programme and help to reduce reoffending.

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OUR PLAN FOR ACTION Priorities 2016 - 2020 Performance OUR KEY RESULTS

Deliver our Financial Strategy, Continue to deliver the priorities At a corporate level we will measure these targets at our Annual Public Meeting and with a focus on efficient resource agreed in our Estates Strategy, performance using the following ten Key in our Annual Report. management and diversification of using leading edge technology that Results; focussing on our Customers, our income streams facilitates new learning styles and People and Society. The targets set for these Key Results will be reviewed meets business needs. during the period from 2016 to 2020, to ensure The initial target set for each result is shown in that they continue to be sufficiently ambitious and the chart. We will report on progress against relevant.

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