Understanding the new learning and skills landscape

Getting People into Work: understanding the new learning and skills landscape

The new arrangements for the funding and delivery of employment and skills will impact on all providers in the further education sector. Outcome incentive payments, prime contracting commissioning models and the integration of employment and skills are now extending to the mainstream learning and skills programmes, as well as to welfare to work initiatives. These will create a new context of the delivery of learning and skills.

This workshop will provide you with an insight into the new employment and skills landscape from a variety of perspectives, including inputs from the Skills Funding Agency and Jobcentre Plus. Breakout sessions will provide delegates with the opportunity to gain more detailed information on specific areas of interest and how providers can span both employment and skills markets.

Outline programme

Understanding the new landscape:

• Integrated employment and skills and how it may evolve in 2011
• Key challenges for providers under the new arrangements
• Building new relationships between local stakeholders
• New welfare to work initiatives Work Programme and ‘Get Britain Working’

Breakout groups:

• Programmes for the short-term unemployed
• Pre-employment toolkit
• The Merlin Standard and working with prime contractors
• Get Britain Working – the new Jobcentre Plus initiatives.