Moving forward - Challenges for the Region WMRO Conference Tuesday 20 October 2009 John Lee Assistant Director Economic Inclusion Government Office West Midlands

Tackling Worklessness: 5 Key Challenges 1. Understanding the shape of the Economy 2. Creating sustainable jobs in growth sectors 3. Driving the Workforce Planning Agenda 4. Harnessing Public Sector ‘buying power’ 5. Nailing Best Practice - the Holy Grail!

1. Understanding the shape of the Economy

2. Creating sustainable jobs in growth sectors

3. Driving the Workforce Planning Agenda

4. Harnessing Public Sector ‘buying power’

5. Nailing Best Practice - the Holy Grail!

Understanding the shape of the Economy What will it look like? What are the Growth Sectors? Who is doing this work? Do we need more data and analysis? Or do we need actions?

What will it look like?

What are the Growth Sectors?

Who is doing this work?

Do we need more data and analysis?

Or do we need actions?

Creating sustainable jobs in growth sectors £3 Trillion Global Market Higher Entry Level Skills Creating Supply Chains A West Midlands Green New Deal Green Technology School Challenges/Prizes

£3 Trillion Global Market

Higher Entry Level Skills

Creating Supply Chains

A West Midlands Green New Deal

Green Technology School Challenges/Prizes

Creating sustainable jobs in ‘our own back yard’ £1b Future Jobs Fund £11m C2O What happens in March 2010? A return to JSA The prospect of sustainable employment

£1b Future Jobs Fund

£11m C2O

What happens in March

2010?

A return to JSA

The prospect of sustainable employment

Driving the Workforce Planning Agenda Demographic Change Ageing Society Apprenticeships Diplomas Graduate Internships Work Experience Reversing the ‘upward drift’ in job entry level requirements

Demographic Change

Ageing Society

Apprenticeships

Diplomas

Graduate Internships

Work Experience

Reversing the ‘upward drift’ in job entry level requirements

Nailing Best Practice - The Holy Grail National Programmes Local Flexibilities Demonstration Projects Pilots C20 Economic Assessments Work and Skills Plans But will the JSIB prove to be the Round Table?

National Programmes

Local Flexibilities

Demonstration Projects

Pilots

C20

Economic Assessments

Work and Skills Plans

But will the JSIB prove to be the Round Table?

Harnessing Public Sector Buying Power UK: £ 175 Billion Annually Region: Circa £ 16 Billion Goal: 10% of contracts include Jobs and Skills requirements = £ 1.6 Billion Assumption: 2-4 jobs created per £ 1 million of procurement Outcome: Access to an additional 3,200 to 6,400 jobs every year The potential is ten-fold

UK: £ 175 Billion Annually

Region: Circa £ 16 Billion

Goal: 10% of contracts include Jobs and Skills requirements = £ 1.6 Billion

Assumption: 2-4 jobs created per £ 1 million of procurement

Outcome: Access to an additional 3,200 to 6,400 jobs every year

The potential is ten-fold

The strategic consideration of jobs and skills requirements in the end-to-end public procurement process Whereby public sector organisations deliberately adopt a ‘default’ position, which requires clauses pertaining to jobs and skills requirements to be routinely considered for their relevance to all stages of the commissioning and procurement process and each and every procurement exercise undertaken (and measure, on an ongoing basis, the percentage of contracts and the proportion of expenditure to which such clauses apply, in addition to tracking outputs and outcomes).

Whereby public sector organisations

deliberately adopt a ‘default’

position, which requires clauses

pertaining to jobs and skills

requirements to be routinely

considered for their relevance to all

stages of the commissioning and

procurement process and each and

every procurement exercise

undertaken (and measure, on an

ongoing basis, the percentage of

contracts and the proportion of

expenditure to which such clauses

apply, in addition to tracking outputs and

outcomes).