EUROPEAN STRUCTURAL AND INVESTMENT FUNDS (ESIF) STRATEGY Eleanor Dearle 14/06/2016 1

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1 EUROPEAN STRUCTURAL AND INVESTMENT FUNDS (ESIF) STRATEGY Eleanor Dearle 1

2 OVERVIEW 2

3 SHEFFIELD CITY REGION 10 YEAR ECONOMIC STRATEGY Aim: Working together to create a stronger and bigger private sector that can compete in national and global markets 70,000 new private sector jobs 6,000 new businesses over the next ten years 30,000 more highly skilled jobs 3 Billion + Increase in GVA 3

4 SHEFFIELD CITY REGION ESIF is integrated into the Strategic Economic Plan and contributes towards its outcomes TOTAL VALUE EURO M M (Current exchange rate 0.78p per Euro) ERDF = 96.7 M ESF = 64.9 M Growth Deals ( 350 M) Devolution ( 900 over 30 years) ESIF ( 161.6M) 4

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6 PRINCIPLES One city region Ambition Demand led Coherent offer 6

7 THE SKILLS LANDSCAPE The Sheffield City Region has: 2 Universities 8 high-performing further education colleges Over 20,000 apprenticeships annually The National College for High Speed Rail, opening in September 2017, which will cater for 1050 students on four specialist pathways 7

8 SCR AND ESF 8

9 ESF DIFFERENT INVESTMENT PRIORITIES HAVE DIFFERENT OUTPUTS Employability and Labour Mobility Social Inclusion Access to Lifelong Learning (Skills) 1.1 Supports unemployed and inactive people to gain work including funding skill development Focus on gaining work 1.2 Supports young people to get traineeships, apprenticeships and jobs Focus on work and learning 1.4 Helps unemployed and inactive people with multiple problems progress to the labour market Focus on Progression and Equality 2.1 Helps Employees to progress in the labour market focus on Progression, especially of women, people with protected characteristics and higher skills to meet business demand 2.2 Improving links between business and education focus on employers 9

10 ESF FUNDING BREAKDOWN TOTAL SCR Funding Split over Programme period TOTAL SCR Priority Value Euro Sterling Exchange ,306,421 15,059, ,264,594 2,546, ,241,613 17,348, ,149,845 25,856, ,250,935 4,095, TOTAL ESF All SCR 83,213,408 64,906,458 10

11 KEY STRATEGIC PRIORITIES Skills Bank Employer led flexible skills support based on skills deals Progress to Work Holistic person-centred employability support based on individual barriers and needs rather than cohort characteristic Social Inclusion Programme Dedicated programme to promote social inclusion and integration of social inclusion across all activities Learn to Work To reduce the mismatch between the supply of young people and the demands of businesses 11

12 CHANGES 12

13 UK EU NEGOTIATIONS KEY CHANGES 5 ESF Investment sub-priorities with distinct output and result indicators Improving labour market relevance of education focuses on supporting SME capacity to influence. Approximate doubling of outputs on original SCR ESIF Exclusion of Social Inclusion priority 9 activities in for SCR ERDF funding Removal of Environmental Sustainability Priority for SCR ESIF Restriction of ESIF Sub-Committee influence to provision of strategic fit advice 13

14 PROGRESS 14

15 PROGRESS TO DATE GENERALLY A SIMILAR PICTURE FROM

16 ISSUES FOR SCR Ill Health Low Skills Young People Low levels of entrepreneurship Migrant Workers/ Roma ESOL Areas of High Deprivation Digital Literacy Older People Economic Inactivity Gender Inequality 16

17 LOWER LEVELS OF EU FUNDING - ESF FUNDING M M Phasing In M 17

18 SCR APPROACH Coordination Progression Inactivity Unemployed - Distant Unemployed Closer Employed sustain - progress Employed Higher level skills Tackling Barriers Developing Routes Matching Employer Needs 18

19 PIPELINE Live : Skills Bank Launchpad (New Business Support) Growth Hub. Getting there: Big Lottery Opt-in, Business Readiness Support for Social and Community Enterprise, Growth Hub enhancement (including national business support products) ICT, Innovation and Rural Development proposals Current Open Calls ICT ERDF Closes 24 June Socially Inclusive Self Employment ESF Closes 16 June Community Innovation Grants ESF Closes 16 June Under Development Skills for Jobs Growth ESF/SFA Opt-In NOW LIVE Employability support (pilot and W&HP) - ESF Access to Finance support to VCSE sector ERDF/ ESF 19

20 SKILLS BANK 20

21 PROCESS AND OFFER 21

22 SKILLS BANK MARKETPLACE Promoting Demand Led Skills System Skills Deals are made on GROWTH potential On-line Market PROVIDER APPLICATION ster Training providers will only be approved if part of framework agreement. Framework training providers will be selected via a tender process. 22

23 ESF - NEEDS AND GAPS NEEDS Basic Skills including ESOL NEETs provision Pre-traineeship support Youth Enterprise Business/education links SME Capacity for internships, apprenticeships etc. GAPS Still too little capacity for unemployed people and inactive people NEETS - Lack of current flexible provision and intensive support Youth Enterprise - Now fragmented with gaps Need to sustain and build on learning from enterprise pilot 23

24 QUESTIONS. CONTACTS: Tel WEBSITE: Technical Assistance contact: Paul Bareham 24