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By: David Knox

To: ELS partnership board

Date 21/10/15

Subject Skills and Employability - Guilds

Classification:

Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism is the most advanced guild so far with a wide range of support across the sector, culminating in the Big Hospitality Conversation with a date yet to be decided. There was a HLTT zone at the Kent Choices 4 U Live event in March.

An employability passport is being reviewed with The Abbey School, MidKent College, The Rosemary Shrager Cookery School and East Kent College. Other key stakeholders include Visit Kent and Springboard UK, Tom Oulton is currently working with them for feedback on the pilot and agreeing the next stages.

We have coordinated the schools engagement for Rosemary Shrager and her apprenticeship scheme this year. Between February and May twelve events in local schools were held. The feedback has been very good, and the school has received a good level of applications for the September start.

The guild plans to create a web-based portal to assist employers to signpost changing employment and skills needs to ensure providers can meet existing demand and deliver skills pipelines in advance of future requirements. The portal will provide training and skills information, advice and guidance about entry paths to the sector and a means for employers to offer work experience, apprenticeships, part and full time work and professional career opportunities. The portal will link with Kent County Council’s Kent Choices 4U site.

A scoping meeting has taken place with Visit Kent about whether Transport and Logistics would be set up as separate guilds, however from discussions with employers it was agreed to keep them as part of this guild. A meeting for the steering group is being planned for November to review current status and a new date for the Big Hospitality Conversation has been confirmed 27/1/16 at Ashford.

Construction and the Built Environment – An initial steering meeting took place in February. Key stakeholders at this stage include trade organisations, FE Colleges, schools and contractors. Those present at the meeting from the education sector included MidKent College, Folkestone Academy, KAFEC and TrAC SAS. The guild format was established after several successful steering groups to discuss how we might as local authorities use procurement to increase the quantity and quality of young people going into the sector.

A call for action has been sent out to create a single point of contact and a guild website, which will publicise outreach opportunities available through the guild to schools. Land Securities have now attended the last meeting and we are working with them on their employment strategy in Ebbsfleet, which will create 600 opportunities year on year until 2022.

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At the Kent Construction Guild Meeting which took place on 30th June. Speakers included Joseph Buels of Mascalls School, who spoke about study programmes and best practice in schools, and Ed Dean of Land Securities, with a focus on the employment strategy in Ebbsfleet Valley.

The next meeting of this guild is being planned for November to review outcomes and action points from last meeting, with updates from key stakeholders.

Case Study from TrAC

Hi Tom

Thanks for getting in touch – TrAC has recently been very busy in Kent with one completion and into employment and two starts in the last 3 weeks plus 12 due to start by mid-September of which overall 8 have been generated by KCC pro - here are the facts and figures which may help to show progress. For reference TrAC continues to have an 100% record of apprentices moving into employment on completion with TrAC.

• Callum S a TrAC P&D apprentice has just completed with Baxall construction and is being fully employed by them – we are asking for some feedback/testimonial from the apprentice and the Host Company by lunch time on Friday

• There has been a significant number of recent apprenticeship starts with companies in Kent in recent months: o L3 Site Technicians ( trainee site managers) x 2 . Ben D - Medway school for Bolt & Heeks a Medway Council project, . Andrew C - Sittingbourne for DCB Kent – o L2 Carpenter for Galliford Try at Sheerness – Nicky B a KCC school project • Planned starts in rest of August & September o L3 Site Technicians . Sam B - Sittingbourne for Galliford Try a KCC Primary project . Adam M – Folkestone for BAM a KCC school project . David S - Folkestone for BAM a KCC school project o L2 5 apprenticeships for DCB in St Nicholas-at-Wade = Marney K - P&D/ Kieran M- Plastering/ TBA Tiling/TBA Maintenance operations x 2 o L2 Carpentry or Ground works in Kings Hill for Galliford Try a KCC school project o L2 x 3 ground worker/P&D/ Carpentry in Folkestone for BAM a KCC school project – (some of these placements may run into Jan 2016 depending on progress with the project)

Kind regards

Sally

Sally Moore Director TrAC

Creative & Media – We have currently been researching the marketplace to understand the needs of the industry and have met with KCC own Arts and Culture Service who have been successful in gaining apprenticeship funding through the Creative Employment Programme. This has created links to a wide range of employers we need to see how we can develop the guild through this portal. A meeting has now taken place with our Arts and Culture team who already have set up a Cultural Transformation Board, which has the same principle of our Guilds, so a new meeting has been arranged to see how we can work with this group. They have already created an Arts Award portfolio, which is similar to our employability passport

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with the arts Council England.

Inspire is a school based learning programme which they have created to provide opportunities for students to learn outside of schools. Developing creative and leadership skills and introducing them to the world of work.

Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing - We are currently talking to different training providers to under the level of training available and to under the issues around recruitment and how we can address this and move this guild forward, with the relevant employers involved. Partners, schools, colleges and training providers have been emailed to send

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The Engineering and Construction event take place at Detling County show ground with a lower than expected turn out from the schools and the reasons why are being reviewed by Toni Clarke. A meeting has taken place with Greenwich University about degree level apprenticeships and how this guild could link together. Guy Robinson who is our new Employability Development Officer has now started and will be tasked with driving this guild forward; we are due to attend the next ECITB forum to start this process.

The land based and environmental sector - The third Land Based & Environmental Guild meeting took place on 30th June at Thanet Skills Studio.

So far the meetings have been school/provider heavy so the next meeting will include employers like Thanet Earth and organisations Like LANTRA, Produced in Kent and the Kent Agricultural Society. We will be developing the Kent PLC website as a host page for all resources and linking this with the National Farmers Union youth magazine which promotes the sector to school students.

Life Science - we are currently working with Kate from Pfizer’s who is part of the BioGateway which was launched at the end of June http://biogateway.co.uk/. Recently we had a meeting with Canterbury Christchurch around developing a degree level apprenticeship in life sciences, so are looking at how we can take this forward and have made links with East Kent College.

A meeting has taken place with East Kent College, Canterbury Christchurch University and Pfizer’s to discuss setting up a degree level apprenticeship. All parties expressed an interest in working together to set up a guild in life sciences. Vicki Main will now arrange further meeting to agree how we can develop and move this forward, the next meeting has been booked for mid-December.

Healthcare

We have been initial discussions with NHS about our Health & Social Care guild and Centre of Excellence, which is currently being reviewed to identify a clear action plan.

List of people who have worked with the Guilds so far:

Construction

Sally Moore TrAC, Misia Carroll South East Consortium, CITB. Peggy Sue Nicholson Moat HA. Yvonne Pick Hyde Housing, Nigel Midmer Hampshire County Council, iESE, Joanne Barton Canterbury City Council, Caroline Carney Ashford Borough Council, Donald Farquharson KCC Strategic and Corporate Services, Stephen Innis Amicus Horizon, Sheena Field Town & Country Housing Group, Carl Rogers Medway Council, Donna Newell Rydon, David Tibbitt Maidstone Borough Council, Les Howell Hampshire County Council, iESE, Alexander McKenna National Federation of Builders, Tim Warren Town & Country Housing Group, Michael Kelly Medway Council, Jacqui Brown MidKent College, Sara Taylor NHS Procurement, David Walach NHS Procurement, Marti Scott-Lee CITB, Tim Stevens East Sussex Council, TrAC, Will Campbell-Wroe West Kent Housing Association, John Morley University of Kent Procurement, Peter Webb MidKent College, Nigel Futter

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University of Kent Procurement, Jane Mortlock University of Kent, Kevin Bush Electrical Contractors Association, Constructing Excellence Kent, David Hughes KCC Economic Development, Laura Miller CITB, James Ireland JTL, Karen Buck Medway UTC, Chris Hare KAFEC, Debbie Wright NHS Medway, Claire Howard Moat, Sara Taylor NHS Foundation Trust, David Howells JTL, Matthew Johnston Folkestone Academy, Cheryl Causebrook Epps Construction, Constructing Excellence Kent, Colin Davies Kent Invicta Chamber of Commerce, Toni Clarke Medway Education Business Partnership, Dawn Janson Medway Education Business Partnership, Janette Welton-Pai CITB, Jayne Anderson RAP Office Interiors, Ayo Browne Northfleet Technology College, Louise Townsend, Morgan Sindall, Tim Ingleton Dover District Council, Matthew Johnstone Folkestone Academy, Debbie Akehurst Land Securities, Edward Dean Land Securities, Emily Foster Circle Housing Group, Karen Hazelden CITB, Nick Congleton West Kent College, Joseph Bules Skills for Employment, Mascalls School, Lynn Bayliss Mascalls School, Michael O’Reilly East Kent College, Bradley Harper Homewood School, Rachael Fagg Homewood School, Jennie Phillips Westlands School, S. Scales Westlands School, Dave Bateman North West Kent College, Sarah Warner MidKent College.

Hospitality, Leisure, Transport & Tourism Guild

Ruth Wood Visit Kent, Sean Stratton MidKent College, Jason Main Rosemary Shrager Cookery School,

Elaine Shirley Rosemary Shrager Cookery School, Kim Neve East Kent College, Susan George East Kent College, Penelope Amatt Springboard UK, Ms S Spring The Abbey School, Sam Coulstock Springboard UK.

Engineering

Troy Barrett (Contracts Engineering) Andy Munn (Megger) Colin Boughton / Clare Scales (Fuji Film) Gary Taylor (MEP) Steve Baker (Wilmington Bogs GS) Clayton Laker (SSC) Denise Clements (IPS) Kim Neve (EKC) Deborah Wilson (MKC) Karen Buck (Medway UTC) Paul Winter / Linds Nutley (Wirebelt) Jim Davidson (EEF) Martin Blincow / Mike Rayner / Laurence Guedon (KCC)

Land Based

Paul Muddle (Abbey) Sue Butler, Pat Young, Lee McCloughlin (Greenacre) Sue (Monkshill Farm) Matthew White, Nicola Wood (Hartsdown) Robin Fuller (Brockhill) Gerry Sum (North School) Pauline Llewllyn (Wilmington Academy) Chris Homewood, (KCC) Chris Williams (Brogdale) Lee Clark (RHS) Kevin .(Hadlow Colege)

Creative & Media

Vicki Main (KCC) Tracey Brunt (KCC)

Life Sciences

David Knox / Allan Baillie/ Vicki Main (KCC), Margaret Crabtree (KCC member) Tracey Searle (East Kent College), Amanda Hutson / Angela Gill/Simon Harvey (Canterbury Christchurch), Dr Katherine Barclay (Pfizers)

The way forward for the guilds

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We have set up a monthly steering group of all officers and relevant senior managers to drive this agenda forward and ensure relevant support and guidance are in place for each guild to achieve its full potential.

This review to include Ross Gill’s paper on key skill sectors and we need to use this report for future development of the guilds.

We have been working on promoting and developing degree level apprenticeships across the guilds for each sector and to bring HE providers into the groups.

Looking at ways we can create better access to the KEP programme within the guilds.

The lead Officers for each Guild:

Current Guilds Officer

Construction & the Built Environment Tom Oulton

Land Based Chris Homewood

Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism Tom Oulton

Creative and media Vicki Main

Engineering & Advanced Manufacturing and Environmental Technologies and Guy Robinson Energy Vicki Main Life Sciences Chris Homewood HealthCare

At the last cabinet members meeting, our members have agreed to support a guild each:

HealthCare – Roger Gough

Engineering & Advanced Manufacturing and Environmental Technologies and Energy – Margaret Crabtree

Life Sciences – Michael Northey

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