Zarah Lowe, 1419 Deputy for Surrey LSC

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• Zarah Lowe, 14-19 Deputy for Surrey LSC

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Introduction Chapter 1
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The Big Picture

• Young People have an entitlement to a high
  standard of education across England.
• The 14-19 reform programme will raise the
  Participation Age (RPA) to 18.
• The September Guarantee will ensure that every
  young person who wants one has a suitable place
  in learning by age 18.
• The qualifications will be streamlined into four
  main routes. All 4 routes will incorporate
  functional skills in English, maths, ICT and
  personal, learning and thinking skills.

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Chapter 2 Qualifications
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Qualifications

• There will be 4 main learning routes
• Apprenticeships
• Diplomas
• Foundation Learning Tier
• General Qualifications (GCSEs and A Levels)

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Apprenticeships

• Entitlement to off-the-job training
• Apprenticeship completion rates reached 63.
• Requirement to undertake high quality
  theoretical and competence based learning
  integrating functional skills and personal,
  learning and thinking skills.

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Diplomas

• Principal Learning the compulsory core to give
  knowledge and skills in a work-related context.
• Generic Learning to give young people the
  functional skills and the personal, learning and
  thinking skills that HE and employers say must be
  improved.
• Additional and Specialist Learning (ASL) to
  give learners the option to add depth and breadth
  to their studies.

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General Qualifications

• Revised A Levels incorporate increased stretch
  and challenge
• Interdisciplinary study encouraged
• Coursework discouraged, replaced by controlled
  assessment enabling better task management
• Extended project to prepare for University

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Foundation LearningTier

• FLT progression pathways each have 3 components
• Functional skills (in English, maths and ICT)
• Personal learning and thinking skills
• Subject and vocational learning

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Support for Young People
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Support for Young People

• Every young person needs to have the right
  information to want to stay on in learning and
  achieve by having the right IAG.
• Personal tutors can support young people through
  key transition stages in learning e.g. at age 16
  and 14.
• They can offer support practically, financially
  (EMA) or personally.

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Support for YoungPeople

• A new emphasis will be placed on schools to
  encourage all young people to progress in
  learning.
• A post 16 progression measure will show the
  proportion of young people who continue in
  learning and achieve.
• More training will be offered for teachers and
  others about all options.

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Support for YoungPeople

• More guidance will be available early in 2009,
  and additional funding over 3 years.
• Alignment is needed between the online
  prospectus, the Common Application Process (CAP)
  and National Apprenticeship Vacancy Matching
  Service (NAVMS).
• Improved Management Information systems eg.
  MIAP and the development of ULNs.
• Build on good practice from third sector in
  piloting Entry to Learning schemes.

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Strengthening Collaboration 14-19 Partnerships
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14-19 Partnerships

• Throughout England it is the responsibility of
  consortia, 14-19 Partnerships and local
  authorities to deliver the entitlement.
• 14-19 Partnerships are a subgroup of Childrens
  Trusts and determine the strategy for 14-19
  across any given Local Authority area.

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14-19 Partnerships

• Diploma Entitlement guidance to follow on local
  delivery of entitlement next year (09).
• There is a need for more flexible start date
  provision.
• Continued emphasis on partnership working
  including compatible timetables, transport and
  facilities.

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14-19 Partnerships

• Consortia are required to involve students in
  the design, delivery and evaluation of IAG.
• Gateway 3 will have a pilot Student Voice
  initiative, best practice will be shared.
• Independent schools will be encouraged to join
  consortia as full or associate members. Standard
  protocol will be developed.

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14-19 Partnerships

• More guidance will follow about 14-19
  Partnerships and effective consortia working.
• Support will be offered to develop overall
  collaborative infrastructure good practice of
  curriculum models will be disseminated and
  aligned timetables.
• Partnerships will work across boundaries.

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The Local Delivery System
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Context

• our delivery model remains one with as small a
  degree of national prescription as we can
  achieve, as much local flexibility as possible
  and mechanisms through which different parts of
  the country can learn from each other about what
  works.

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Context

• ..need to ensure that we do not overburden
  schools, colleges, local authorities or any of
  our delivery partners with bureaucracy.

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Role of Local Authorities

• 14-19 Partnerships strengthened.
• Duty to co-operate in Childrens Trust
  arrangements with more specificity on 14-19
  Plans.
• From 2013 duty to secure place in learning for
  all 16-19 year olds resident in area, including
  access to all diplomas and the broader
  entitlement.
• Plan to deliver 100 participation by 2015
  guidance to follow.

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Role of Local Authorities (2)

• From 2010 develop 16-19 Commissioning Plan to
  include
• Provision own area
• Provision other areas, YP LA
• Apprenticeships
• Expanding 6th Form Colleges (designation) other
  institutions can apply
• Impact of Academies
• Impact of local collaborative arrangements.
• Suitable 14-19 facilities for delivering
  entitlement aligned with my place investment in
  youth facilities and coherent strategy..

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Role of Regional Planning Groups

• Scrutinise 16-19 Commissioning plans to
  ensure
• Coherent
• Consistent assumptions
• Common data
• Within regional budget
• Delivery of 14-19 entitlements
• Work with RDA to ensure local skills needs
• RDA co-chair RPG with LAs

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Role of YPLA

• Small NDPB supporting LAs.
• Core functions include
• Ensuring the coherence of plans
• Funding and budgetary control at National and
  Regional levels
• Developing national frameworks and providing
  support for planning and commissioning

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The Role of the YPLA (2)

• Undertaking national commissioning and
  contracting where appropriate.
• Ensuring LAs provided with data, management
  information and strategic analysis to make
  intelligent commissioning decisions.
• Power to intervene if risk of non delivery by
  LAs.
• Joint chairs JACQA.

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The end to endprocess

• 14-19 Plan Partnership
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• Dialogue local providers
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• LAs 16-19 commissioning plan
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• Plan agreed sub-regional ? RPG ? YPLA
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• YPLA fund LAs ? providers

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Watch this space!

• Blueprint for YPLA
• Guidance on commissioning process
• Guidance on capital arrangements
• Data/MI systems to support processes
• FfE piloted in schools 6th form from Sept 2009