The Work Programme

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Implementing Work Programme

Focussing on 3S’s

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Overview

•Seetec

•Implementation Experience

•Work Programme – Our Ethos

•S1

•S2

•S3

•Discussion

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Seetec - Profile

•DWP ERSS Framework in 7 Regions

•Work Programme Prime Contractor in 3 CPA’s

•Mandatory Work Activity in 2 CPA’s

•27 years of W2W and Skills experience; £57mturnover; 800 staff; 70 delivery centres

•Managing supply chains of over 60 subcontractors andengaging with in excess of 100 strategic stakeholders

•FND, New Deal, Pathways to Work, NDDP, WorkChoice, JCPSC, ESF

•Skills Funding Agency (skills) Apprenticeship’s; Level2’s, PfU, Single Budget

•Lead Partner – The Skills Place – Newham WestfieldStratford City

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Implementation Experience

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Work Programme

Work Programme is not the same asNew Deal or any other programmethat we have delivered in the past.

It requires different thinking, differentapproaches but above all it willrequire superior performance in allrespects

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S1 – Staffing Challenges

•Highly complex situation

•Existing staff running legacycontracts

•Different views andapproaches to TUPE

•Speculation / uncertainty /demotivation

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S1 – Responses

•Adaptable Action Plan / Timetable

•Get the facts

•Communicate (All Players)

•Fair and equitable

•Assessment Centres

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S2 – Stakeholder Challenges

•More involvement

•All offering own advice, help,support

•All with own agendas

•Resource constraints

•Own timetables

•Small politics and localism

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S2 – Responses

•Need to engage

•Transparent communication

•Streamlined engagement

•Mutual value adding

•Long term relationships

•Decentralised relationships

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S3- Supply Chain Challenges

•Larger Supply Chains

•Traditional thinking / behaviours

•Significance of Due Diligence

•Data Security

•Implementing toMerlin Standards

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S3 – Responses

•Constructive pressure

•Open / honest communication

•Proactive supply chain management

•Initial training, support, capacity building

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Observations

Key themes:

Engagement

Communication

Adaptable Plans

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Discussion

•TUPE – friend or foe?

•Strategic stakeholders – roles and responsibilities?

•Supply chain - a real culture change?

•What have others (providers, sub-contractors,strategic stakeholders) learnt during theimplementation?