Building a Smarter Economic Future

The UK Economic Development Conference 2009

7-8 October 2009

Royal Bath Hotel, Bournemouth

ADAPT AND SURVIVE – SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE FOR CHANGING ECONOMIC

CONDITIONS

IED Conference

8th October 2009

Adapt and Survive

ROLE OF THE HOMES AND COMMUNITIES ACADEMY IN THE NATIONAL SKILLS AGENDA

SUPPORT FOR REGENERATION KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS IN THE RECESSION

The Academy’s New Role

External skills arm of the HCA

National team of 35, main base in Leeds - restructured to create skills advisers based in HCA regions

Changed business model to support HCA investment priorities

Targeting places that need the most help

Supporting and improving places

• Practical information

• New ideas, know-how and best practice

• Up-to-date skills

Delivery partners better equipped to withstand market conditions and deliver housing and regeneration programmes

IMPROVED PLACE-MAKING

Creating the HCA’s external hub

Leading the skills agenda

• Externally: unified approach to place-making skills

• Internally: improved skills and capability

• Tailored support to places in regions

• Improved leadership

• Dealing with downturn

Building the skills, knowledge and capacity of HCA’s delivery partners to execute successful housing and regeneration programmes

Our priorities 2009-11

Priority 3: Leading the skills agenda

Leading a skills action plan on behalf of Government to ensure unified approach to place-making skills across sector –launched by John Healey and Sir Bob Kerslake in June 2009

Leading co-ordinated approach within the HCA to improving skills and knowledge of staff and partners

Supporting agency’s work on apprenticeships and local employment programmes

Skills Action Plan – Better Skills for Better Places

Attract and Retain Key People

– Recruitment and Promotion of the Sector – CIC

– Progression Routes, CPD and Retention – HCA Academy

Generic and Emerging Skills

– Leadership – IDeA

– Community Cohesion and Empowerment – CIH

– Climate Change - CABE

Technical and Specialist Skills

– Planning Skills – RTPI

– Urban Design and Greenspace Skills – CABE

– Skills for Changing Economic Markets – HCA Academy

Key Skills and Knowledge Issues in the Recession

New Initiatives/New System

Development Economics

Partnership

Risk Sharing

Resource Sharing

What works!

Academy Skills for Changing Economic Markets Programme

KNOWLEDGE SHARING

Debate Place – October

http://showcase.hcaacademy.co.uk/debate

Diagnostic Support

Support for the Single Conversation

Review of Development Economics Training (SKAP Group overview)

Academy Skills for Changing Economic Markets Programme

SKILLS AND CAPACITY BUILDING

Strategic Partnership with BURA

– Housing and Regeneration – skills transfer

– Partnership and Risk Sharing

– Development Economics

Place Based Support – commissioned by Regional Directors

Support programme for Local Delivery Vehicless in mksm – ‘skills bank’

Downturn, Upturn – same old story, or whole new game?

We are doing things differently We need to share experience about what is working and what is not We need to understand one another better, share expertise Some skills are even more important now – Leadership, Partnership,

Negotiation, Delivery But these are not necessarily new skills We need to keep these skills for the good times as well – they help

us to create quality, sustainable places Some places never really come out of recession Growth has its challenges

For the latest on our work, visit:www.HCAacademy.co.uk