Employment and Skills Partnership Alliance

Lyn GardnerJuly 2011

JHP Group - The Company• £70M+ turnover employing > 1,400 staff• MBO in January 2010, LDC funded• JHP in skills and employability as:

– a deliverer

– a sub contractor

– a manager of supply chain arrangements

• Strongly committed to our core values and core ethos– Staff: IiP Gold and IiP Champion

– High quality, high success rates: Ofsted Grade 2

– Our values are our competitive advantage, conscience and map

– And…underpin our strong commercial drive to reach and benefit lives of staff, learners and clients

• Key and distinctive strengths in technology, IES, IWS and with performance in the top decile

Introduction

Skills• 2nd largest independent training provider

• No 1 in Apprenticeships, NVQs, flexible – span Entry level to Level 5

• Work based learning and commercial training – employersEmployability• Awarded largest contract by Skills Funding Agency for Programmes

for the Unemployed

• DWP

• awarded 7 ERSS framework contracts (maximum allowed)

• Work Programme: 1 of just 18 prime providers • MWA: Scotland and NW

Our Vision: Work Programme

• To replicate or continue previous businessmodels and practices will = FAILURE

It is NOT more of the same

What is so radical?

• It is the biggest transfer of risk to the private sector• Payment by results• Changing the focus from job search and placement to:

• Holistic - understanding and meeting personal needs • Progression - personal and professional• Employer opportunity and support

Key to our success…• Partnership: 77% delivery via our supply chain• Technology

– Diagnostic tools feeding into online action plans, CVs– Job matching immediately (email, post and texting)– Case and employer management – matching and managing– MIS, client tracking and performance measurement– Staff development through our Virtual Academy

• IES and IWS– Engaging with and meeting employer need– Creating opportunities with employers, developing people

• Leadership and management– Staff : Induction and development programme (ND to WP, ‘can do’)

• Regional Stakeholder engagement through convergence of government policy - ‘making work pay’