Employment and skills workshop Chair: Terry Hodgkinson, Yorkshire Forward

1. Employment and skills workshop Chair: Terry Hodgkinson, Yorkshire Forward

2. C3: Enterprise Lynsey Robinson One NorthEast Senior Specialist Enterprise

3. Enterprise investment priority starting point • Look at the ‘Story of Enterprise’ across the North • Undertaken Spring 05 taking a broad look at enterprise; • Process of prioritisation, looking at: • What RDAs/BLs/others are currently doing; • Govt policies and priorities; • Enterprise issues across the North.

4. Emphasis is - • Young people/schools/education; • Focus on entrepreneurship rather than enterprise more generally as business start-up is what we are about; • Need a continuum of provision across age groups and those that influence young people; • Govt Howard Review welcome but raises some issues gaps e.g. age range, compulsion.

5. North Enterprise Education Programme • Aim • Test out approach that fills gaps; • Create a continuum; • Build capacity; • Tests out “obligations” and flexibilities within schools currently and in the future; • Finance invested in schools; • Integrated within and adding value to, current infrastructure - but not propping up or replacing; • Development consultancy contract signed; • Tendering process for delivery contract if appropriate; • Aims to reach 300 schools across the North, investment in the order of 10k per school. • Contact lynsey.robinson@onenortheast.co.uk

6. Other education programmes • FE • Led by the AOC; • Integrating enterprise education within particular curriculum areas; • CPD for Staff; • Development of toolkit and policy recommendations for colleges, Government and other funders; • HE • Bringing together detailed mapping currently underway with NCGE; • Looking across the North for Policy implications.

7. Other collaborative activities • Attracting entrepreneurs • Research project about to be commissioned; • Integration within RDA enterprise & communication plan, link with C10; • Informal economy • Hartlepool pilot underway; • Ongoing evaluation commissioned by One NorthEast; • Integration within RDA enterprise plans & policy;

8. Next steps & Question • Commence development and delivery of education • Disseminate research results and evaluation of informal economy pilot • Review of the Northern Enterprise Story for further areas of collaboration/investment • How can we ensure that we are maximising the potential of the enterprise education programme, how should we ‘select’ schools for investment within the programme?

9. C1 Bring more people into employmentC5 Meet employer skills needs Led by NWDAAndrew HeydemanRon Pelleymounter

10. C1 Bring More People into Employment Aim: Effectively engage and support Incapacity Benefit (IB) claimants back into sustainable employment opportunities

11. Planned Activities • Ten pilot projects in locations across the North, will “test out” effectiveness of wide range of different approaches to engaging IB claimants • Pan – Northern Approach enables us to do this in a mixture of different locations and communities

12. Planned Activities (continued) • Project examples include using the voluntary/community sector as vehicles for engagement (in Middlesbrough) and focusing on inter-generational/cultural dependency amongst families (in Liverpool)

13. Anticipated Outcomes • Sharing of good practice and experiences across the North, both within and between projects • Collective detailed evaluation of all the projects, producing both formative and summative evaluation • This rigorous evidence base will be used to inform / influence and lobby at national level for changes in policy/resource allocations and greater flexibility for the North

14. How can we ensure we capture relevant evidence and issues from activities on worklessness in the North, beyond the Northern Way Projects ? What do you think are the main worklessness issues we should influence and lobby for nationally on behalf of the North ? Questions

15. C5 Meet Employer Skills Needs Aim: To promote the need for a Northern Approach to intervention and investment in skills development.

16. Planned Activities • In conjunction with the LSC-led “Train to Gain” activity, a “Northern Skills Offer” will be made available initially to approximately 3000 employers across the North • Offer to employers will be for economically relevant second level 2 qualifications (and priority level 3 qualifications in some parts of the North) • Will focus on sectors where there are significant skills issues across the North – e.g. construction and food/drink

17. Anticipated Outcomes • Test out effectiveness of new approaches in stimulating increased demand and investment from employers in skills development • Evaluate the extent to which investment in second Level 2 qualifications and the stimulation of employer investment in priority Level 3 qualifications, can produce a significant impact upon skills and productivity in the North

18. Anticipated Outcomes (continued) • Gather and present rigorous evidence base, which will be used to underpin policy discussions with government and mainstream public sector investors • Evidence gained will be used to inform/influence and lobby for changes in policy, resource allocations and much greater flexibility to respond to unique Northern Skills issues on a Pan-Northern and regional basis

19. How can we best ensure that evidence on barriers to effective skills development in the North is gathered ? What are the main barriers to our ability to respond effectively on a “Pan Northern” basis to addressing skills issues ? Questions

20. Northern Leadership Academy • A £5 million flagship initiative to strengthen leadership across the North • Developed by the NWDA, the National Leadership Academy (NLA) will be led by a consortium including Lancaster University Management School, Leeds University Business School and University of Liverpool Management School

21. Northern Leadership Academy • Will be supported by a wide range of public and private sector organisations across the North, and based at Lancaster University • Its success will be founded on strong partnerships, and will put in place something over and above the traditional Business School or Leadership Programme

22. Northern Leadership Academy • The Academy aims to provide new opportunities for leadership development for existing leaders, and those with leadership potential throughout the North in business and within communities • It will help to identify and address the leadership gaps that are most significant in ensuring the Northern regions close the North-South productivity gap

23. NLA Programme of Activity • will include: • Creation of a think-tank which will enable NLA to provide advice on leadership and enterprise development • Master classes, mentoring and scholarship across the education community in the North to champion leadership

24. The NLA has been developed to take leaders forward - its now up to everyone to make sure it succeeds, how are you going to engage with the Academy ? Question

25. Design Centre of the North

26. Design Centre of The North • Aims to be a Hub for the interface between design and science and technology • Enables the development of design capacity for science and vice versa • Chancellor’s Budget 05 announcement • Cox Review published Dec 05, named as part of a network of design centres to encourage creativity • Currently developing business plan, all subject to financial approval through CPRG and planning approval through GMBC.

29. DCN next steps • Many of the proposed facilities and opportunities have Northern and National relevance • Proposed Hub and Spoke structure within the business model • Early discussions to take place Spring 06 with complementary activities throughout the North including: • Academic institutions • City Regions • Private sector • Business support sector • Other RDA funded programmes • Aim for financial approvals and planning approvals by May 06 • Contact - lynsey.robinson@onenortheast.co.uk