Decision Maker: Executive Member for Open to Business
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: No
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.
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]
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.
N/a
Publication date: 14/02/2022
Date of decision: 14/02/2022
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