Construction Employment

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Construction Employment Skills Partnership
CHRIS DUNN CESP Project Manager
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What Partnership?
SISM Partnership
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What is CESP?

• Its an European Social Funded project to
• Engage with social housing or housing benefit
  tenants
• Provide Construction Training, Employment and
  Advice
• Responsible to ECOTEC on behalf of LSC

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Specifically CESP Delivers

• 1250 Engagements
• 1000 significant engagements
• 450 Basic Skills qualifications
• 300 CSCS cards
• 300 level 1 qualifications
• 200 level 2 qualifications
• 250 construction industry jobs

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The Vision of CESP

• Help change the culture of Construction Training
  Provision to
• Employer demand led Leitch Report ro-ro
• Increase training capacity pan London by Widening
  Partnership Working
• Help co-ordinate construction initiatives across
  London

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CESP Structure
A Leitch Report Structure
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Where is CESP now?

• The Usual ESF problems!
• End loaded project profiled payment
• Well discuss these later..

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Where is CESP now?

• Engagements 1214 beneficiaries 97 of overall
  target
• Outcomes Outputs February profile
• Disabilities 10 100 profile
• BAME 689 92 profile
• 50 87 87 profile
• Women 106 - 96 profile
• All engaged beneficiaries receive interview and
  ILP

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Where is CESP now?Training, Qualifications
Outcomes

• Level 1 350 100 profile
• Level 2 139 70 profile
• CSCS 120 78 profile
• JOBS 120 60 profile

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Our Biggest Obstacles

• Lack of Buy-In from Developers
• s106 need to be owned
• Local Authority planners need to understand s106
  value
• Lack of Buy-In from RSLs
• Process owned by CESP-like organisations
• RSLs need to bring pressure on contractors
• Contractors reluctant to take new staff
• Increase buy-in from contractors
• Ownership of training process

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Lessons Learned part 1

• What we already knew.
• End loaded projects cause cash flow problems
• ESF projects rarely start on time and therefore
  rarely finish on time
• Regarding new projects, its a brave body that
  takes on lead partnership

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Lessons Learned part 2

• What we discovered
• No one, not even the LSC know whos out there
  delivering training!
• Eg UNOCO Circle Anglia etc
• Weve only just scratched the surface
• Tons of beneficiaries out there disabilities,
  women, SfL
• In times of change, prime players entrench!
• Finance Departments dont like risk!

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Where we go next part 1

• The Changes Flexible Responses
• LSC 16-19 provision and cash moves to Children's
  Trusts
• LAs, Connexions E2E EMA
• DWP adopts Australian model of work based
  provision
• transfers New Deal to Super Prime Contractor
  Providers
• ND 18-25 25 narrowed to Flexible ND
• Rudimentary Skills Health Check
• 6 intensive work based interviews in 3 months
• Employment Support Allowance
• DWP places 70-80 core business with Core Super
  Prime Contractors Working Links A4E Carter
  Carter REED SERCO Work Directions Instant
  Muscle

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Where we go next part 2 DWP Routes into Work
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Where we go next part 3

• Core Prime Contractors
• Non-interference by Govt
• Graded Performance Payment Scheme rewards
  achievers
• Incentive for non-achievers
• More packaged response means more holes in system
• Train to Gain means Employer Buy-in
• Incentive to employ level 1 staff

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