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London’s Future: Skills and Employment Strategy

London’s Future: Skills and Employment Strategy. Paul Cuttill, Board Member, London Skills and Employment Board. The Board. Board established – December ’06 Chaired by the Mayor Employer led

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London’s Future: Skills and Employment Strategy

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  1. London’s Future: Skills and Employment Strategy Paul Cuttill, Board Member, London Skills and Employment Board

  2. The Board Board established – December ’06 Chaired by the Mayor Employer led Responsible for providing strategic direction of skills and employment in London (inc steering £600m LSC funds)

  3. What the Board is wanting to achieve • A skills and employment system which • helps maintain and enhance London’s globally competitive labour market • raises the skill levels of Londoners, motivating them to learn and helping them secure sustainable employment • helps improve business productivity and innovation

  4. London labour market • London is a globally successful city: a world leading centre in financial and business services • Success due to the availability of qualified staff - access to national and international labour pools • Job market greatest growth at higher level skills: 50% of jobs by 2020 • Significant new job opportunities with major projects such as 2012 Games and Crossrail • Maintaining access to well-qualified staff is crucial to retaining London’s global competitive advantage

  5. London labour market London’s labour market is highly competitive London employers are more likely than employers nationally to have skills gaps (17% vs 15%) Almost 30% of working age residents are not in employment – more than elsewhere in England Many Londoners lack skills to compete in London’s labour market – 600,000 no qualifications

  6. Worklessness in London Employment rate currently at 70.5 % - lowest in England, has been around 5 percentage points below the national figure for past 15 years Closing national gap difficult – London has high number of students, dynamic population Within London average some big disparities –within communities (eg Hackney, Haringey), and groups eg BAME, disabled people Large proportion of London’s workless out of work over 2 years

  7. London vs UK working age employment rate

  8. The Board’s Strategy • In order to tackle these issues the Board’s Strategy identifies three Strategic Aims. These are: • Strategic Aim 1: Working with employers to better support them in providing more job and skills opportunities to Londoners, to the benefit of their businesses and to keep London’s economy competitive • Strategic Aim 2: Supporting Londoners to improve their sills, job and advancement prospects through integrated employment support and training opportunities • Strategic Aim 3: Creating a fully integrated, customer focused skills and employment system

  9. Strategic Aim : Working with employers • A London ‘employer to employer’ sales force to promote business benefits • A new integrated employer offer – the London Employer Accord • employers to commit to help job ready Londoners gain a job, take on Apprenticeships and to develop their workforces; • Simple to access advice and public funding to support these commitments • Stronger voice to employers in shaping skills provision inc SSCs with a regional focus

  10. Strategic Aim : Engaging and supporting London’s people • Raising aspirations and awareness through an engagement campaign • Employability support and progression routes • Better information supported by a London Skills and Employment Observatory • New advice, advancement and careers service in London

  11. Strategic Aim : Customer focused skills and employment system • Improving the customer experience • Joint commissioning of employment and skills services • Targets which support progression and improved employability • Better collaboration – local, regional, national

  12. Making it happen • Need to engage wide range of stakeholders in delivering this Strategy • Public agencies LSC,LDA, Jobcentre Plus to lead and co-ordinate delivery of key actions in Implementation Plans • Underpinned by local level partnerships/alignment – local gov, third sector, colleges/providers/HE, unions • Board performance and accountability framework

  13. The Board’s Targets • Board’s targets • A substantial increase in the number of Londoners in sustainable employment • Inc London-wide employment rate from 70.5% to 72% by 2013 • Progress on closing the gap for disadvantaged groups • Reducing sub-regional disparities in employment outcomes • Raise skills levels so that Londoners have necessary skills to compete • Measured through a basket of indicators eg imp in literacy/numeracy, employer training

  14. What the Board is wanting to achieve • A skills and employment system which • helps maintain and enhance London’s globally competitive labour market • raises the skill levels of Londoners, motivating them to learn and helping them secure sustainable employment • helps improve business productivity and innovation

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