EIF phase one investments

Asset Skills

Summary: Addresses the gender pay gap issue and supports women with career progression in the cleaning and facilities management industry. Primarily delivered through a wide range of training courses. This is a disadvantaged sector and equality issues facing women are high. The proposal supports women to improve low level skills and qualifications and leads to a rise in women occupying senior and management positions.

Outputs:

• 425 women will complete an individual training
• 50% of women will progress into a managerial role and it will improve staff retention rates.
• Potential qualification.

Total employer match funding:

Cash: £48,531

In-kind: £339,719

Cogent

Total employer match funding:

Cash: £105,967

In-kind: £247,258

ConstructionSkills

Total EIF funding:
£116,800

Total employer match funding:

Cash: £17,520

In-kind: £99,280

Lantra

Total employer match funding:

Cash: £269,000

In-kind: £126,500

People 1st

Total employer match funding:

Cash: £75,000

In-kind: £340,000

Semta

Summary: Increasing integration within the organisation, maximising progression opportunities and influencing good practice with employers. Semta will work with employers to embed their equal opportunities and diversity policies and procedures, utilising the skills and tools of high quality specialist organisations and driving up employer investment in skills.

Outputs:

• 352 women trained against an individual training plan

Total employer match funding:

Cash: £39,200

In-kind: £272,400

ConstructionSkills

Title: The Green Deal Competency Framework

Summary: Building the infrastructure to support a major Government initiative designed to help the UK meet stringent targets on the reduction of energy use to meet the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol. This will require the retrofit of 14 million homes between 2012 and 2020. This is a collaborative proposal with Asset Skills and SummitSkills.

Outputs:

• A standards-led competency framework for Green Deal.
• A new suite of units that will provide underpinning knowledge relevant to occupations delivery the Green Deal message.
• Improved Green Deal delivery.
• Improved employer investment in accredited training.
• Improved access to training.

Total employer match funding:

Cash: Nil

In-kind: Nil

e-Skills UK

Title: AmbITion

Summary: This proposal is for an improved pipeline of talent into the IT industry. The proposal is made up of four work-streams – CC4G, ITMB Degree, Internships, and, careers activity. Three of the four work-streams are currently designed and are looking for funding to take the products and services through to a self sustaining business model.

Outputs:

• 19,500 young people will be more likely to pursue IT related education or careers.
• 5,000 young people will have new capabilities that are valued by employers.
• 110 employers will have invested over £530k of value into the talent pipeline.
• Self sustaining business models and value propositions will have been established.

Total employer match funding:

Cash: Nil

In-kind: £534,500

IMI

Title: Supporting the move to professional registration and voluntary Licence to Practise for the Automotive sector.

Summary: The proposal is to build on existing work of the Automotive Technician Accreditation (ATA) Scheme and develop a profession register, which will reinforce the need for continuous professional development as the key to maintaining professional standards.

Outputs:

• Development of 50 CPD modules.
• Develop a professional register structure.
• Develop two higher level apprenticeship programmes.
• Promote the new offer reaching a minimum of 25,000 business units.

Total employer match funding:

Cash: £458,522

In-kind: Nil

Semta

Title: UK Talent Retention Project

Summary: To ensure that the high value skilled employees displaced following the strategic Defence and Security Review are retained and employed within the growing Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering sector.

Outputs:

• Over 1,000 employer subscriptions across the sector by January 2012.

Total employer match funding:

Cash: Nil

In-kind: £431,200

Skills for Health

Title: Development of the Skills Passport for Health

Summary: Development of a skills passport for the health sector.

Outputs:

• Beta version of the Skills Passport.
• Framework for statutory and mandatory skills.
• Staged roll out to 60 organisations.
• Finalisation of the licence model.

Total employer match funding:

Cash: Nil

In-kind: Nil

Skillset

Title: Extending the Tick – A Skills Sat-Nav

Summary: To create a gold standard for creative industries indicating the very best in training and education. This is an extension of a quality mark that is used in Higher Education. The project aims to extend a quality mark to Apprenticeships, Internships, vocational progression or feeder courses. It will provide employers and individuals with a navigation tool to identify good practice.

Outputs:

• Agreed standards and guidelines for best practice delivery in a wider range of courses in further and higher education.
• Bespoke online assessment process to ensure specific criteria and initial assessments are flexible.
• Feasibility study and implementation plan with agreed recommendations to quality mark progression awards and qualifications for computer games.

Total employer match funding:

Cash: £100,000

In-kind: Nil

Cogent

Title: Life Sciences SMEs and Licence to Practise

Summary: To explore the applicability of a Licence to Practise model based on the existing Cogent Gold Standard, for SMEs in the Life Sciences sector.

Outputs:

• Identify and work with up to 10 Life Science intermediary organisations.
• Develop a bespoke Gold Standard for SME companies.
• Carry out a mapping exercise and promote the Cogent Gold Standard for Life Sciences SMEs.
• Produce a report and case studies of the benefits of the Gold Standard to SMEs.

Total employer match funding:

Cash: Nil

In-kind: Nil

Skills for Logistics

Total employer match funding:

Cash: Nil

In-kind: £70,000