Lancashire Digital Skills Partnership: the first local Digital Skills Partnership
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Speakers: Kerry Harrison, digital skills coordinator, Lancashire Enterprise Partnership Dominic Martinez, project officer, Lancashire County Council The Digital Skills Partnership, coordinated from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), works to extend commitments within the UK Digital Strategy which sets out the government’s ambition to create a world-leading digital economy that works for everyone. Local Digital Skills Partnerships aim to tackle local digital skills challenges and build thriving and inclusive local economies through increased collaboration and coherence between public, private and charity sector organisations and help address local digital skills needs in more targeted and innovative ways.
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Lancashire Digital Skills Partnership: the first local Digital Skills Partnership
- 1. Lancashire Digital Skills Partnership: the first local Digital Skills Partnership Kerry L. O. Harrison & Dominic Martinez
- 4. Data 4 • Many jobs have a digital element, and it is predicted that within 20 years 90% of all jobs will require some element of digital skills, “ Skills Funding Agency 2016
- 5. Skills and Employment Strategic Framework 5 Future Workforce • Inspiring young people • Improving employability skills and aligning curriculum. • Investing in our learning infrastructure. • Apprenticeship growth • Professional / Graduate attraction & retention. • Workforce planning. • Leadership and Management / Innovation capacity in SMEs. • Enabling an inclusive workforce; supporting unemployed & inactive into work. • Digital inclusion. • Incorporating social value into public procurement processes. • Employer engagement to inform our approach. • Maintain our evidence base and insight. • Influence, prioritise and direct the use of funding – maximise impact. • Connect with other LEPs. Skilled & Productive Workforce Inclusive Workforce Informed Approach
- 6. Structure 6
- 7. T levels – brand new level 3 qualifications 7 • Coming in 2020 – Digital, Construction and Education & Childcare • Significant government priority - £500m per year investment • Developed by industry using new apprenticeship standards • Includes an integral and significant 45 day work placement for all students
- 8. Teach Too – CPD opportunities for Digital Teaching staff 8 • New broad curriculum the size of 3 A levels and will students will study full-time • Upskilling to new industry standards to meet new curriculum identified by staff through surveys • DSP has identified & brokered industry partners who have developed and co-created new exemplar curricula-based masterclasses and industry awareness sessions • Over 40 teaching staff and 10 local & national companies involved
- 10. Was it easy to turn on your torch? Yes – show your torch light
- 11. Was it easy to turn on your torch? Yes – show your torch light
- 12. Have you seen any improvement in the numbers of women/girls on tech related courses? Yes – show your torch light
- 13. Have you heard of T Levels prior to today, if so would you know where to go locally to get more information? Yes – show your torch light
- 14. Based on Lancashire's experience, do you think there is a need for a DSP in your own area? Yes – show your torch light
- 15. Thank you Kerry Harrison Digital Skills Coordinator Kerry.Harrison@lancashirelep.co. uk @LancsSkillsHub #DigitalSkills #InspiringLancashire Dominic Martinez Technical Education Project Officer Dominc.martinez@lancashirelep.co.u k
Editor's Notes
- Bringing a little sunshine in to your life today and tell you a little about the T levels and the Digital Skills Partnership – Lancashire.
- From two linked Government papers – the Industrial Strategy and UK’s Digital Strategy, a partnership was established at a National Level with Government working with corporate partners including Google, BT, Barclays, AWS, Nominet, Raspberry Pi, Tech Nation, Tech UK. The aim of the Digital Skills Partnership is to bring together public, private and charity sector organisations to boost skills for a world-leading, inclusive digital economy. It was realised that for this to have impact at a local level a pathway to local areas was needed. LEPs and Combined Authorities were encouraged to bid to be part of a pilot scheme of Local Digital Skills Partnerships. Lancashire has already identified Digital as a priority and commenced work on developing Lancashire’s skills within the framework of the Skills and Employment Hub. As a result of this our bid was successful and in April 2018, Lancashire became the first Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) to establish a Local Digital Skills Partnership. In role from November - Digital Skills Coordinator Role - I see my role as bringing together the right groups of partners to take forward the local priorities and vision for improving Digital Skills within Lancashire capitalising on opportunities such as those developed by the Digital Skills Partnership and introductions from the DCMS. So much good work already happens in Lancashire to improve the digital skills landscape and the LDSP can help highlight good practice and work with partners to fill gaps. This role acts as a conduit of knowledge so I can share opportunities appropriately and join the dots between existing good practice and those in need of support and development. Growing the number of people, businesses and providers in our partnership will continue to strengthen the work that takes place now.
- Evidence for need… Good Things Foundation - https://www.goodthingsfoundation.org/research-publications/understanding-motivations-non-users-internet Skills Funding Agency – 2016 - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/review-of-publicly-funded-digital-skills-qualifications Lloyds Business and Charity Index 2018 - https://resources.lloydsbank.com/businessdigitalindex/ Lloyds Consumer Index - 2018 - https://www.lloydsbank.com/banking-with-us/whats-happening/consumer-digital-index.asp Tech Nation - https://technation.io/ 19% of Tech jobs female - https://placetech.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/technationreport-6.jpg Top reasons cited by young women for not wanting to work in the industry were ‘I don’t have the skills’ (45%), ‘I don’t know anything about it’ (38%) and ‘it’s not for people like me’ (24%). – https://technation.io/talent/future-talent-key-findings/
- The work of the LDSP The LDSP sits within the Skills and Employability Hub of the Lancashire LEP and is structured around a clear strategic model that encompasses four areas of work. These include: the future workforce, the skilled and productive workforce and the inclusive workforce all underpinned by the fourth dimension - an informed approach. The informed approach stipulates an evidence based approach to guide and focus the priorities of the LDSP. Our data is presently being refreshed in a research piece that will not only inform the work of the LDSP but also feed in to the intelligence for the completion of the Industrial Strategy. The Future Workforce element focuses on developing the pipeline of skills in Lancashire. Ensuring that from Primary school to University our young people have opportunities to develop not only their digital skills but also their knowledge about the Digital Industry and the exciting opportunities that exist within Lancashire. There is no need to leave for Manchester or London when there are so many exciting Digital companies in Lancashire and a thriving Oscar, EMMY and Grammy winning digital community! The work in this area builds on the work of colleagues in the Careers and Enterprise Company which includes the Careers Hub pilot and the Enterprise Advisor Network which aims to link business leaders to Secondary Education establishments to help schools develop careers education programmes which engender meaningful employer encounters. Working with National Partners to supplement the good work locally, Lloyds Banking Group in November held a Rediscover event for the high schools in Blackpool engaging their local Digital Champions. The event was very well received by those that attended and a plans to roll this out across Lancashire are developing. The Inclusive Workforce element has a wide scope looking at how we can develop the basic or essential skills needed in today’s society across the wider population. A large percentage of the population do not have all the 5 basic skills and are struggling to access services online that many take for granted. This includes issues such as accessing Universal Credit, paying bills online, switching to cheaper energy providers or even searching for jobs. In Lancashire, we have ESF funded projects designed to improve Digital Skills, other local projects such as the Click and Chat group in Chorley with partners Chorley Council, Age UK and Lancashire Adult Learning. We are also introducing the iDea Awards - Duke of York Award Scheme to ESF funded partners who engage with residents who have multiple barriers to gaining employment, this will act as complimentary provision enabling adults in different settings or facilitated through library staff to enhance their skills and gain recognition for what they learn. Working with National Partners such as Freeformers and Facebook has also allowed us to try out different approaches to enhancing digital skills and given our residents insight in to different digital areas such as app creation, social media presence and AI in a four hour intensive session; peaking interest for further study and employment opportunities. Within the Skilled and Productive Workforce element, we link in two further pilots. The first is Made Smarter. A pilot designed to increase the adoption of new technologies by manufacturers, engineers and makers in the North West. Alongside the support and advice that can be received about tech adoption and the bid process to access money to support digitization, there's also training available for senior business leaders. This is training designed and delivered by Lancaster University and is designed to help business leaders overseeing the digital transformation of a business and now leading and managing a workforce who may have digital skills beyond the leaders capabilities. Bootcamps for improving skills for entry to technician level jobs are also being developed in partnership between the Lancashire and Greater Manchester Combined Authority Teams. Alongside this we have been successful with the Digital Skills Innovation Fund – what this space for further details of these exciting and pioneering approaches to skills development. Working with National Partners we have also trained over 600 SME Businesses across Lancashire through Google Garage on topics such as digital marketing. Lancashire's Digital Skills Partnership is busy and industriously working to achieve the strategic vision of the LEP and the skills agenda
- Over 40 staff have directly benefitted and over 10 companies involved