To support Londoners into good jobs with a focus on sectors key to London's recovery so that no Londoner, particularly those who have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic, is unable to access education, training or work.
Why "Helping Londoners into Good Work"?
The pandemic and its economic fallout have led to a rising number of Londoners dealing with redundancy and seeking support.
London’s recovery from the pandemic depends on Londoners being able to find good jobs and progress in their work and lives, while ensuring our businesses have access to the skills and talent they need to recover and succeed.
The overall objective of the mission is:
- 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
- Coordinating skills, careers and employment support so there is ‘no wrong door’ for Londoners; and ensuring that employment and enterprise provide a secure route out of poverty
- Establishing sector specific London 'Academies' to support Londoners to gain relevant skills and move into good work in sectors key to London’s recovery
- Close working with employers and job creation initiatives such as green recovery to promote good work
Key Achievements
- Launch of the £44m Mayor’s Academies Programme (MAP)
- Twenty-two MAP hub grants were awarded across the sectors key to London’s recovery. The MAP Quality Mark was launched in March 2022 and will support the mission by accrediting high-quality sector-specific training provision that meets the needs of London’s employers and supports Londoners in accessing good jobs.
- The prospectus for the £6.7m ESF Mayor’s Academies Programme was launched in February 2022
- GLA secured a £18.9m DfE grant award to commission Bootcamps for 5,000 Londoners in 2022-23. 42 Bootcamps were successful in the first phase of the commissioning process for a total funding of £7.8m, supporting 2,100 learners, with delivery beginning in July 2022.
- WHP JETs programme supported over 21,000 Londoners into work.
- Boroughs responded to the employment challenges of the pandemic, with the average London borough’s employment services annual budget reaching over £1.5m, an increase of half a million since 2020. This equalling over £35m across London in total supporting 44,274 Londoners.
- Over 2,400 Londoners supported into employment (including apprenticeships and work placements in the first two quarters of 2022-23.
- 56% of Londoners supported into employment, education and training from BAME groups, 21% who are female, 10% who are disabled and 10% who are over 50 in 2022-23.
- Nearly 800 Londoners supported by the Mayor’s European Social Fund and AEB Procured programme to achieve minimum basic skills in 2022-23
Progress so far
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
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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.
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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.
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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
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Research and Innovation Programme
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NWD Integrations Hubs
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Pilot Set-Up of new practice
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Evaluation and learning
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Pan-London strategic partnership and quality standards
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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
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AEB: Good Work for All Fund
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Academies: Hubs, Promotion of key sectors, Quality Marks
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WIN: Specific support to meet needs of excluded groups
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Full Economic Costing (FEC): Capital funding for industry-relevant provision
Progress
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The Mayor’s Skills Academy Programme is in delivery with 22 Academy hub grants awarded across sectors key to London’s recovery.
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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
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London govt Leading By Example.
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Good Kickstart Guide for employers.
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Good work guide for anchor institutions, recovery partners and other employers.
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Advocacy.
Progress
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A Good Kickstart Guide was produced, supporting employers to better support Londoners on the Kickstart scheme.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Sign-off GLA / Sub-regional Partnership joint work plans
Submission of pan-London & sub-regional LSIPs
UKSPF People and Skills programme commences delivery
710 schools and colleges part of a London Careers Hub
7,000 Londoners achieving minimum basic skills qualifications via GLA investment
24,811 Londoners supported into employment (including apprenticeships & work placements)
19,200 Londoners supported by the Mayor’s Academies Programme (MAP) to participate in training and education
106,000 additional learners assisted as a result of GLA capital investment
Our key partners
- London Councils
- Local Authorities
- Sub-Regional Partnerships
- Adult Education Skills Providers
- Learners
- JobCentre Plus
- Employer bodies
- London’s community groups
- Trade unions
- National Union of Students
- GLA Family organisations