York and North Yorkshire Local Skills Improvement Fund Project Showcase

Welcome to the York and North Yorkshire Local Skills Improvement Fund Project Showcase.

Join us for a day filled with displays and presentations highlighting the activities our further education colleges and providers are undertaking to meet the skills needs in York and North Yorkshire.

You will be able to learn firsthand about the Mayor of York and North Yorkshire’s vision for skills in the region. You will also see and hear how investments in industry standard equipment and capacity building, supported by DfE's Local Skills Improvement Fund, are helping employers in key sectors such as Health and Social Care and Digital Technologies to upskill their current and future staff.

The event will be held at the Pavilions Of Harrogate, where you can network with fellow skills stakeholders, try out some of the training innovations, and learn about new courses that will make a difference to our region's workforce and businesses.

York and North Yorkshire Local Skills Improvement Fund (LSIF) Partnership Project

York College is lead partner of the York and North Yorkshire LSIF Partnership, and is providing overall project management for two projects allocated a total of £2,500,000 and involving the following partners:

· Askham Bryan College

· Craven College

· Darlington College

· Luminate Group (Harrogate College)

· North Yorkshire Council (Adult Learning & Skills Service)

· Heart of Yorkshire Education Group (Selby College)

· TEC Partnership (Scarborough TEC campus)

· York City Council (York Learning)

· York College

· Yorkshire Learning Providers

The two projects are:

Project 1: Digital technologies driving digitisation across key priority sectors.

This project’s high level aims and objectives are:

· To put into place a digital technology infrastructure and resources that will contribute to collaborative development of digital curriculum and skills provision, responding to digitisation and automation and skills shortages and gaps across diverse sectors.

· To support digital upskilling of learners, teaching staff and employers increasing employability, transferable and technical skills and business resilience, in a changing digital world.

· To invest in, and maximise use of, digital technologies that will enhance teaching and learning, support different learning styles, increase engagement and participation, and improve accessibility of provision, thus addressing the skills needs of diverse groups of learners and employers across York and North Yorkshire’s geography and economy.

Project 2: Health and Social Care

This project’s high level aims and objectives are:

· To identify gaps in health and social care learning facilities and provision across the York and North Yorkshire region, informing investments and activities.

· To put into place state of the art mock learning facilities, technology and resources, where needed, enhancing current availability, to enable delivery of up-to-date provision, addressing significant skills shortages and gaps across the health and social care sector and across the region.

· To develop and deliver flexible courses to engage and support skills development for potential entrants into the health and social care sector and upskill existing sector workforce, improving employability, transferable and technical skills, to respond to changing health and care needs.

· To engage with employers to showcase the benefits of upskilling to maximise innovations in the sector, supporting efficiencies and increases in productivity.

Calder and Derwent Rooms, The Pavilions, Harrogate

10.30 am ARRIVAL, REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS

11.00 am WELCOME: DAVID SKAITH, MAYOR OF YORK AND NORTH YORKSHIRE

11.10 am INTRODUCTION: KEN MERRY, PRINCIPAL AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE YORK COLLEGE AND UNVERSITY CENTRE, LSIF PARTNERSHIP LEAD PARTNER

11.20 am YORK AND NORTH YORKSHIRE LOCAL SKILLS IMPROVEMENT PLAN: WEST AND NORTH YORKSHIRE CHAMBER

11.35 am THE IMPACT OF LSIP AND LSIF ON SKILLS: MELANIE COLINS, HEAD OF LOCAL SKILLS IMPROVEMENT TEAM, DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION

11.50 am YORK AND NORTH YORKSHIRE LSIF PROJECT: ANNABEL JELLEY, LSIF PROJECT MANAGER

12.10 pm CASE STUDY – tbc

12.20 pm CASE STUDY – tbc

12.30 pm COLLABORATIVE WORKING FOR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION: ALAN JONES, PROJECT 1 LEAD, DARLINGTON COLLEGE and ANNIMERSION LTD

12.45 pm INNOVATIONS SUPPORTING NORTH YORKSHIRE’S KEY SECTORS: ALEX ASPDEN, CRAVEN COLLEGE and SKIPTON BID MANAGER

1.00 pm LUNCH AND VISIT TO THE PARTNER MARKET PLACE

2.30 pm EVENT CLOSE

Host or Publisher LSIF Project Manager, York College