INVITATION TO QUOTE FOR CORNWALL & ISLES OF SCILLY WORKFORCE AND SKILLS STRATEGY REFRESH

Contract summary

Industry

• Business and management consultancy and related services - 79400000

Location of contract

England

Value of contract

£30,000 to £35,000

Procurement reference

CORNWALL001-DN749408-52556008

Published date

25 October 2024

Closing date

7 November 2024

Closing time

5pm

Contract start date

12 November 2024

Contract end date

31 March 2025

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

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Description

Scope for Skills Strategy Refresh
To ensure we deliver our Good Growth Plan principles, we must review and update our local skills and workforce strategy. The 2021 Local Skills and Labour Market Strategy adopted the following 4 principles which are still relevant: -
1. Inspire - Developing the workforce of tomorrow
Our young people have high quality Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance which informs and inspires them about our unique future opportunities and fosters our spirit of entrepreneurship.
2. Transform - Creating a productive workforce
Our learning provision meets the sector specific requirements of employers through a more collaborative and employer-led approach which aligns learning and training with employer demand, providing learners with clear progression pathways to a higher level creative and technical skills.
3. Innovate - Supporting the growth and diversification of the economy
Develop the leadership and high-level skills needs to drive growth, innovation and productivity.
4. Thrive - Creating opportunity for all
The skills, inclusion and health agendas work together to develop an inclusive 'whole person' approach to skills which enables people to retrain, progress in work or into the labour market.
These principles align well with the recently approved Good Growth Plan and it is proposed that the Workforce and Skills Strategy Review should focus on how we strategically align our commissioning and delivery functions to support our economic growth and skills ambitions. The review of the Workforce and Skills Strategy should therefore focus on the following:
Lot 1 - Evidence Base
1. Updated labour market assessment to ensure we have a robust and current evidence base for all future investment and programme decisions.
Lot 2 - Policy review and Strategy refresh
2. Mapping and gapping of current skills landscape, alongside our current strategic initiatives - both learning provision and employment and skills support.
3. Review of existing and developing national skills policy which include the following announcements to date: -
o Autumn Statement on 30 October 2024
o Merge Jobcentre and National Careers Service
o Back to Work White Paper - Autumn 2024 & New Deal for Working People.
o Creation and launch of Skills England and abolition of Education Skills Funding Agency and IFATE
o New Industrial Strategy (currently Green Paper)
o New National Labour Market Advisory Board
o Move from Apprenticeship Levy to Growth & Skills Levy
o New Youth Guarantee
4. Labour market opportunities and challenges for CIoS that particularly (but not solely) reflects upon our distinctive, core and foundational sectors.
5. Stakeholder consultation and employer engagement.
6. Taking the above into account, re-writing a refreshed Strategy to include
• an updated action plan and priorities to be taken forward by us and our partners.
• clear measures of success and indicators to help evaluate long-term progress.

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More information

Previous notice about this procurement

INVITATION TO QUOTE FOR CORNWALL & ISLES OF SCILLY WORKFORCE AND SKILLS STRATEGY REFRESH

• Opportunity
• Published 25 October 2024

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About the buyer

Contact name

Clare Harris

Address

County Hall
Treyew Road
Truro
TR1 3AY
United Kingdom

Email

clare.harris@cornwall.gov.uk

Website

http://www.cornwall.gov.uk