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Day Two Workshops

Attendance at the workshops is complimentary as part of your conference registration.
1 Trailblazer Funding & Future Apprenticeship Funding including Vouchers
Facilitated by Rebecca Rhodes, Skills Funding Agency

A practical session on trailblazer funding for providers seeking to deliver the new Trailblazer apprenticeships in 2015/2016. This will cover the operational process for working with and claiming apprenticeship funding through the ILR, an overview of provider accountabilities in this funding model and the latest update on the voucher approach announced in March 2016.
2 New Inspection Arrangements from September 2015
Facilitated by Phil Romain HMI, Ofsted & Anthony Harmer, ELATT Connected Learning

From September 2015 Ofsted will inspect against the Common Inspection Framework: Education, Skills and Child Care and introduce new arrangements for the inspection of Further Education and Skills provision, including short inspections for providers graded good at their last inspection.  This workshop will provide an overview of the main differences between the Common Inspection Framework: Education, Skills and Child Care the current framework, inspection types, including short inspections, and the inspection and reporting on types of provision. 

3 Meeting the Literacy and Numeracy Needs of Learners on Traineeship and Apprenticeship Programmes
Cheryl Woods & Shirley Eden - Pearson (Delegate Wallets Sponsor)

This workshop will explore the literacy and numeracy needs of learners on a Traineeship or Apprenticeship programme. It will identify how literacy and numeracy skills can be embedded and delivered holistically into learning programmes allowing tutors to cover a range of learners needs. 

4 Devolution, Localism and Implications for ITPs
Facilitated by Emanuel Gatt, Shared Service Architecture Ltd

The devolution genie has been released from the bottle. SNP securing a landslide victory in Scotland has resulted in greater calls for devolved powers to England too.  With Greater Manchester’s Northern Powerhouse leading the way - more devolution in England is evitable. But how this will evolve is far from certain. One given is that skills will be an crucial element of the devolved powers sought to drive local economic development. 

This session will provide ITPs with an opportunity to discuss the implications of devolution for the organisation and sector more generally and explore how they must respond to the opportunities they might afford. 

5 Life skills – how do we effectively prepare learners for the workplace?
Facilitated by Ruth Carter, OCR

There has been much discussion in the press and in influential reports from the CBI and other employers about the need for young people to demonstrate ‘soft’ skills that will help them succeed in the workplace. Against a backdrop of qualifications reform that, at least for those in school, sees a return to a more knowledge-driven and examination-led qualification landscape, how can we ensure that young people understand and develop the skills they will need in life and in work?

This workshop will explore:
  • the notion of ‘soft’ skills and 
  • the extent to which these skills can be developed within a curriculum
  • and to what extent they can support the delivery of applied English and maths.
6
Apprenticeships – Maintaining Quality in Apprenticeship Reform
Facilitated by Mara Bogdanovic, OCR

A commitment to deliver 3 million Apprenticeship starts over the course of this parliament has reignited the debate over quality versus quantity in Apprenticeships. Given the need to deliver such apprenticeship growth, how can we ensure that apprenticeships and particularly their assessments remain fit for purpose?

This workshop will explore:
  • reflections on the Trailblazer process so far
  • what needs to be considered to ensure valid assessment takes place
  • the the roles that each stakeholder needs to play in delivering good quality apprenticeships
7A
How can we get the most out of Traineeships? (Session One only)
Facilitated by Ian Jelley, FairTrain & Tim Chewter, Association of Employment and Learning Providers

Uptake on the Traineeship programme nationally has been lower than anticipated – this session looks at the barriers faced by learning providers, the resources available to support you, and the positive impact Traineeships can have.
7B
Improving your EFA Funding Claims (Session Two only)
Facilitated by Kevin Street & Lisa Gerisch, Education Funding Agency

Are you being funded for all eligible learning and does your data reflect what you have delivered?
As we approach the end of the funding year, it is vital that you are accurately recording all eligible activity and your funding data returns are as accurate as they can be to ensure you are being paid for what you have delivered and secure future funding under the EFA’s lagged system. This workshop will look at performance trends over the course of this year and highlight commonly-made errors to look out for and avoid when completing end-of-year data returns.

• attendees will understand all activity that is eligible for funding and
• be better placed to get the correct income from their contract in their end of year reporting
• be more aware of commonly-made errors
8 “Assistive Technology”, with an eye to the future
Facilitated by Andrew Sparkes, National Star College

Looking to the future, with an eye on the past: innovative uses of assistive technology to support and enhance learning, living and working.
9
SFA Financial Assurance and Making Use of their Audit Software
Facilitated by Nick Linford, author of the Complete Guide to Funding Apprenticeships

In this technical workshop Nick will provide an invaluable insight into how the SFA provider financial assurance teams interrogate your ILR data with their Data Self-Assessment Toolkit (DSAT) software. What are they looking for? How can you use their DSAT software and reports to fix the data before they find it? Can you afford to miss this workshop? Nick promises to put the Fun into funding, Authority into audit and Dedication into data. This ain’t no FAD.
10 Responding to the Prevent Duty
Facilitated by Selina Stewart, Chris Bowles and Kat Cooper, The Education and Training Foundation

The Prevent duty is a statutory requirement which comes into forces on the 1st July. Ofsted are already inspecting against this. Find out what the requirements are and what support there is for providers
11 Just What is Employability?
Facilitated by Paul Warner & Kevin Moore, AELP

This workshop is designed to strip down the generic term into its component parts, in order to better design and deliver employability training, and make a quantifiable difference to learners' employment prospects. 
 
The session will explore the journey that the phrase has taken in the last 10 years, in order to segment the different skills sets, so that personalised programmes can be created and delivered.
 
The workshop is designed to challenge participants' thinking, and promote more effective programmes that meet the needs of the learner and employers.

12
The Apprenticeship Led Ideas Challenge
Facilitated by Paul Bailey and Ruth Hansford, JISC

The challenge is aimed at learner led teams supported by staff from colleges/ learning providers and employers involved in work-based learning to suggest technology based solutions to meet specific challenges for learners in colleges and learning providers. This challenge invited apprentices to submit interesting and innovative ideas for using technology that could improve your learning experience. The two success ideas will collaborate with Jisc and the Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) over the summer to explore and develop their idea and make it a reality.

13 An Introduction to 'Transforming Rehabilitation'; The Impact of Reforms on Offender Provision and Experience
Facilitated by Alix Critchlow, Rehabilitation Services Directorate, NOMS

The impact of the Government’s ‘Transforming Rehabilitation’ Reforms is felt across the Criminal Justice System and beyond.  This workshop will seek to explore the different elements of the reform with a focus on ‘Through the Gate’.  We will consider the impact of changes on the delivery of key offender services.  We will reflect upon the impact on commissioned services including: the views of wider partners, both cross-government, local government, third sector, statutory and non-statutory partners.  We will also explore how ‘Transforming Rehabilitation’ will, and has, impacted upon the offenders’ experience of service delivery across the vast range of interventions and services available to support resettlement and reduction in re-offending.

14
How to Begin to Contextualise your maths Delivery – Delivered during Session One Only
Facilitated by Janice Richards, Mathematics in Education and Industry

Using vocational and general life contexts can help learners to see the relevance of maths to them personally, and can be a powerful way to engage and motivate them.

This workshop aims to help you to make more use of context in your maths delivery, from answering learners’ questions such as ‘When am I ever going to need this stuff?’, to developing your teaching and learning around contextualised activities. We will explore sources of relevant resources and also discuss practical ways to develop your own contextualised resources and share them with others. We will also consider how we can help learners move from contextualised to pure maths, and other ways to help learners prepare for their exams. Whilst the focus will be on resit GCSE Maths, much of the content will also be relevant for Functional Skills Maths.

This is a workshop and there will be practical activities, so please come prepared to do some thinking and planning, as well as sharing your thoughts and ideas.

15 Contextualising your English delivery – Delivered during Session Two Only
Facilitated by Michael Smith and Patrice Miller, Barking and Dagenham College

The workshop will begin with an introduction to some of the approaches to contextualising English currently in use at Barking and Dagenham College. These will include cross-subject tutor collaboration, the use of e-learning strategies and creative resource development. This will be followed by a look forward to some new strategies that we will be trialling in the coming academic year.

Delegates will then have the opportunity to explore and interact with an array of GCSE English resources that were developed and trialled as part of an ongoing AELP and BDC project that ran between October 2014 and March 2015. The resources disseminated will be both paper and computer-based and ample IT provision will be made available so that delegates can sample both sets.