Delivering skills provision for unemployed adults

[Background] [Aims] [Outcomes] [Audience] [Programme] [Event Information] [Application Conditions]

Background

Skills provision for unemployed adults through the Adult Skills Budget began on 1^st August 2011. The provision, initially announced in Skills for Sustainable Growth, BIS, (2010) requires providers to:

• identify resources from within their adult skills budget allocation to fund the provision
• develop provision based on local labour market demand following local planning in conjunction with key stakeholders including Jobcentre Plus
• provide short courses through which learners can gain QCF units
• provide support for learners mandated to attend by Jobcentre Plus
• ensure provision is flexible enough to meet individual needs; and
• meet capacity building objectives in 2011/12 to receive 2.5% of their adult skills budget paid in the form of a Job Outcome Incentive Payment.

The ongoing challenging economic circumstances have meant that in order to make the provision a success, providers have had to be highly innovative to identify new sources of work experience and job opportunities for learners.

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Aims

This seminar will discuss helpful approaches to employer engagement within an environment of rapidly changing labour market demand and will reveal the results of a study recently undertaken by NIACE on learning provider engagement of micro businesses. The seminar will also include an input from the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills and from the Department of Work and Pensions on the introduction of Universal Credit and the possible implications for identifying those eligible for skills provision for unemployed adults and an opportunity for delegates to give their views on these possibilities.

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Outcomes

The seminar will:

• give policy makers and providers the opportunity to hear from providers that have adopted innovative approaches to employer engagement
• reveal the findings of NIACE's recent study into the engagement of micro businesses which are sometimes underutilised as a source of work experience and job opportunities
• give providers keen to extend their support for unemployed adults, an insight into the realities of engaging employers as part of skills provision for unemployed adults
• give providers an opportunity to exchange ideas and consider future developments within skills provision for unemployed adults, including implications of the introduction of Universal Credit.

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Audience

• National and regional policy and decision makers within government departments and agencies, local authorities and other stakeholders
• Business support organisation and business network provider representatives
• Business development and employer engagement managers and practitioners within general FE colleges, independent training providers, ACL providers and voluntary and community sector learning providers
• Senior and operational managers within general FE colleges, independent training providers, ACL providers and voluntary and community sector learning providers
• People with an interest in skills provision and/or support for unemployed learners.

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Programme

A late start so those traveling from London and the South can take advantage of the 9.15am off-peak rail fare; arriving in Leicester at 10.30am

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 Event Information

• Arrival and registration is at 10:30am for a 10:45am start. The event will end at 4:00pm
• Event fee per person: £ 99; NIACE Members: £85 (includes sandwich lunch, tea/coffee)
• NB: NIACE does not charge VAT on conference or course fees
• Only online application forms with the payments section completed will be processed
• NB: If you wish us to invoice your employer we require a copy of the Purchase Order before the form is processed
• Places will be allocated in order of receipt of completed online application forms (one online application form per person)
• Video cameras may be in use at this event. If you do not wish to be photographed or appear on the video outputs please indicate this on the application form and make yourself known at registration
• Participants should be prepared to take their own notes as there will not be handouts for all sessions
• If you have not received an e-mail confirming your attendance and joining instructions 4 working days before the event please contact: events@niace.org.uk

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Application Conditions

• Event date: Wednesday 2 May 2012
• Closing date: Thursday 19 April 2012
• Cancellations are non-refundable.
• The full fee is payable prior to the event
• Substitutions are to be advised 5 working days prior to the event
• A 15 working days notice period is required for provision of electronic note-takers, sign language interpreters and transcription to Braille
• Places are to be reserved online - scroll up and click on Apply Now
• Reservations by telephone cannot be accepted
• Application forms are individually acknowledged by e-mail. Joining instructions, including map and directions, will be e-mailed out one week before the event.
• NIACE reserves the right to reject applicants who are not from the target audience list.

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