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Decision details

Funding Application to Department for Education Skills for Boot Camps

Decision Maker: Executive Member for Open to Business

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

Seek authorisation to apply for DfE funding for Skills Book Camps on behalf of the York and North Yorkshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and acceptance of any subsequent offer.

Decision:

a) authorise the submission of an application for Department for Education (DfE) funding to support delivery of a one year (April 2022 to March 2023) Skills Bootcamp programme in York and North Yorkshire;

b) delegate the acceptance of any grant funding offered as a result of this bid to the Corporate Director Strategic Resources following consultation with the Corporate Director Business and Environmental Services and the Assistant Chief Executive (Legal and Democratic Services)

[Not open to call-in as urgency procedures apply]

Reasons for the decision:

The Skills Bootcamp programme will address the problem of employer/sector ‘in-demand’ skills needs. This will support skills issued identified in the YNY LEP published ‘Covid-19 A Plan to Reshape our Economy plan published in October 2020; the Skills Strategy, launched in January 2021; and the LEPs Labour Market Analysis 2021 which provides an assessment of York and North Yorkshire’s (YNY’s) skills needs based on a detailed analysis of the supply of and demand for skills.

The aim of the Skills Bootcamps programme is to secure benefits for adults by giving them access to in-demand skills training and a guaranteed interview for a more sustainable, higher-skilled job and higher wages over time. The benefits for employers include helping them fill specific skills shortage vacancies, enabling them to become more productive, more quickly.

The Skills Bootcamp programme will deliver significant benefits and outcomes such as:

• Addressing the needs of employers and the wider economy, to deliver targeted interventions to meet short-medium term demand to fill vacancies and drive productivity. They will help fill medium-higher level vacancies and bring individuals closer to better jobs, by linking them with line of sight to a job/ different role, additional responsibilities or new opportunities/contracts.
• Addressing the needs of adults (19+) who are full-time and part-time employed, unemployed, returning to work after a break or self-employed, and provide individuals with wider access to opportunities to retrain, update or formalise their skills or acquire specialist skills.
• Enabling adults (19+) to do training around work and other commitments, looking to gain work, additional responsibilities, or access new opportunities and will offer a guaranteed job interview (in the case of a new job) to individual participants on completion of the course.
• Helping to fill vacancies and bring individuals closer to better jobs (including those currently in employment), by linking them with line of sight to a job/different role, additional responsibilities or new opportunities/contracts.

Alternative options considered:

N/a

Publication date: 14/02/2022

Date of decision: 14/02/2022

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