Goal

• Supporting Londoners hardest hit by the pandemic including young people, newly unemployed, people with caring responsibilities and people at risk of redundancy into good work, while ensuring that Londoners with the most complex needs are not left behind.

Action

• Adult Education Budget (AEB): Covid-19 Response Fund, Good Work for All Fund, Fully funding Level 3 quals for unemployed & low paid Londoners, Flex to fund wrap-around support, 10% funding uplift up to Level 2, AEB Roadmap​.
• BES: Employment support: hard-to-reach​.
• Job Entry Training Support (JETS): Employment support: long-term unemployed.
• European Structural Funds (ESF): Support to different groups.

Progress

• Publication of the Skills Roadmap for London, which sets out how the Mayor intends to make provision more impactful, accessible and relevant, and help more Londoners into good jobs and to lead healthy, happy lives.

• Work and Health Programme (WHP) JETs programme was set up at pace during the Covid-19 pandemic and was extended until September 2022. It is managed by the Sub-Regional Partnerships. In London, the programme has helped over 21,000 Londoners to get a job and had exceeded its performance expectations.

• ESF supported the expansion of borough job brokerage schemes working sub-regionally, supporting the most disadvantaged Londoners into work.

Goal

• Coordinating skills, careers and employment support so there is ‘no wrong door’ (NWD) for Londoners; and ensuring that employment and enterprise provide a secure route out of poverty.

Action

• Research and Innovation Programme​

• NWD Integrations Hubs​

• Pilot Set-Up of new practice

• Evaluation and learning​

• Pan-London strategic partnership and quality standards​

• GLA / Design Council Open Innovation programme

Progress

• The No Wrong Door programme is now in delivery. Four Sub Regional Integration Hubs have been established (one in each SRP area) to boost collaboration and integration between employment, learning and other services in London’s sub-regions. An accompanying research and innovation programme is also underway, to track user journeys for Londoners accessing support and make recommendations for system change.

Goal

• Establishing sector specific London 'Academies' to support Londoners to gain relevant skills and move into good work in sectors key to London’s recovery.

Action

• AEB: Good Work for All Fund​

• Academies: Hubs, Promotion of key sectors, Quality Marks​

• WIN: Specific support to meet needs of excluded groups​

• Full Economic Costing (FEC): Capital funding for industry-relevant provision

Progress

• The Mayor’s Skills Academy Programme is in delivery with 22 Academy hub grants awarded across sectors key to London’s recovery.

• The Mayoral Skills Academies Quality Mark has been established to support the mission by accrediting high-quality sector-specific training provision. In June 2022, 25 adult education providers were accredited in the first round of awards.

Goal

• Close working with employers and job creation initiatives such as green recovery to promote good work.

Action

• London govt Leading By Example​.

• Good Kickstart Guide for employers​.

• Good work guide for anchor institutions, recovery partners and other employers.

• Advocacy​.

Progress

• A Good Kickstart Guide was produced, supporting employers to better support Londoners on the Kickstart scheme.

• The GLA and London Councils are working closely to develop proposals, which include a UKSPF People and Skills pillar that will fund provision for Londoners to enter and progress in good jobs. This will start in 2024-25.

• The Local Skills Improvement Plan (LSIP) will focus on priority sectors agreed as part of the recovery programme and will have sub-regional as well as pan-London activity.

• The Anchor Institutions Network is convening leading employers to increase employer investment in learning and support good employment practice, building on the Good Work Standard.