Economy, Work, Skills & Learning
The overall aim of the Economy, Work, Skills & Learning Partnership is to coordinate the delivery of the Economy, Work, Skills & Learning elements of the Sustainable Communities Strategy (SCS) and consequent Local Area Agreement (LAA) targets and that the work of all partners in the City is these respects are aligned.
Work Streams
The Economy Partnership will have 5 work streams:
- Employability;
- Skills;
- Learning;
- Enterprise Development;
- and Business Support.
Employability
This work stream group will:
- Be the point of contact for the Tyne and Wear City Region Employment Consortium (TWCREC);
- Set employability targets in line with TWCREC;
- Develop a strategic programme of activity in line with TWCREC;
- Align funding with agreed objectives;
- Oversee the Newcastle Futures programme;
- Consider emerging employability and welfare policy.
Skills
This work stream group will:
Develop an understanding of supply and demand of skills in the local economy. In this it will consider:
Supply
- Young people entering the labour market;
- People in work with the potential to develop their skills;
- Inward migration.
Demand
- Growth sectors;
- Skills demand generated through strategic aspiration (e.g. Sustainable Communities Strategy, Science City, OECD recommendation, Regeneration Strategy etc.);
- Propose and monitor local targets for skills.
NB. Should a City region Employment and Skills Board be established this group would be the point of contact on behalf of Newcastle Partnership.
Learning
This work stream group will:
- Propose and monitor targets for adult learning;
- Bring funders, providers and learner representatives together to ensure learning is available for priority groups; increase quality assured provision; increase learner numbers; help learners progress into further learning; advise the LSC and Newcastle City Learning on the deployment of the Personal and Community Development Learning budget.
Enterprise Development
This work stream group will:
- Propose and monitor targets for Enterprise Development;
- Foster collaboration in pre-start up business support.
Business Support
This work stream group will:
- Propose and monitor targets for Business Support; monitor, review and advise on business start up and wider business advice activity, including the critical relationship with Business Link NE.
Performance and Reporting
A Partnership member will be tasked to lead on each of the work streams. They would be responsible for reporting on their work streams’ contribution to the Partnership’s overall objectives. Work streams leads would be expected to bring together groups of representatives of appropriate organisations to support them which would be ratified by the Economy Partnership. Others will be invited to join the Partnership or its work stream when specialist knowledge is required.
The Economy, Work, Skills & Learning Partnership will:
- Report to the Delivery Board & Strategy Board as appropriate;
- Assist in formulating the long term vision of the Sustainable Communities Strategy;
- Propose targets to be included in the Local Areas Agreement;
- Monitor progress towards targets;
- Where appropriate agree priorities for deployment of resources;
- Identify service improvements;
- Identify areas where collaboration would yield benefits;
- Consider implications of emerging policies and feed into Innovation Group.
The Partnership will meet quarterly (and at other times as required) allowing timely reporting to Delivery and Strategy Boards.
Economy, Work, Skills & Learning Meeting Papers 22 June 2009
Economy, Work, Skills & Learning Meeting Papers 14 May 2009
Economy, Work, Skills & Learning Meeting Papers 9 April 2009
Economy, Work, Skills & Learning Meeting Papers 12 March 2009
Economy, Work, Skills & Learning Meeting Papers 8 January 2009
Powerpoint presentation of meeting 27 November 2008
Economy, Work, Skills & Learning Meeting Papers 27 November 2008
Economy, Work, Skills & Learning Meeting Papers 21 August 2008
Economy, Work, Skills & Learning Meeting Papers 14 November 2007
Meeting dates
Membership of the Partnership
No One Written off consultation response September 2008