CLOSED: Skills for Growth: Health and Social Care sector New Anglia OC24S17P0821
Call to run a project to address the issue that New Anglia’s working-age population is more poorly qualified than other areas of the country.
This call is now closed. Please do not submit an application for this call. The information provided on this page is for reference purposes only.
Details
This Open Call is seeking to enable the health and social care sector to respond to the economic needs of the health and social care sector and specifically to improve the skills, career progression and employability of its workforce so that the anticipated economic growth can be achieved. We are seeking applications which will support activities to:
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Reduce levels of in work poverty through skills attainment and career progression.
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Develop solutions to address skills gaps and hard to fill vacancies across the employer base through workforce development.
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Identify new skills solutions that will respond to shift patterns, technology advances and traditional barriers to progression.
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Address the age profile in the sector where significant numbers of staff are older and younger people are not being retained or offered the training to enable them to progress and capitalise on opportunities.
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Respond to the rurality of the area where travel to work issues are key decisions in staff retention and development.
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Encouraging progression and specialisation (particularly in lower-level occupations) as a priority for many in the sector. Facilitating this progression safely (either with or without regulation) is a key priority in this context.
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Engage with New Anglia’s health and social care employers including public sector employers to support workforce planning, development and retention.
To increase the number of people with technical and job specific skills, particularly at level 3 and above and into higher and advanced level apprenticeships, to support business growth.
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Location
The project must cover the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) area.
Value
Approximately £4,000,000 of funding is available.
Deadlines
Outline application deadline: 27th October 2017.
Completion date
The project must be completed no later than 30th April 2021.
How to apply
To apply for funding under this call you will need to complete and send the Outline Application form to the email address provided in the call document. The guidance provides information to help you complete the form.
You are also advised to read the details in the call documents in order to produce an application that complies with the requirements and meets the needs set out in the Operational Programme. All this information, the related guidance and the European Social Fund Operational Programme can be found from our homepage.
Where to send completed applications
Completed Outline Applications must be submitted to 2014-2020.ESFAPPLICATIONS@DWP.GSI.GOV.UK
Failure to send completed applications to this email address by the deadline in the call specification will be ineligible for consideration.
What happens next
If your outline application is successful, we’ll contact you and ask you to make a full application.
Contact details
Contact. ESF.2014-2020@dwp.gsi.gov.uk with queries linked to accessing or using the specification, forms, guidance etc.
No applications are to be sent to this email address. Completed applications must be sent to the email address provided in the ‘Where to send completed applications’ section above / Section 9 of the Call Specification.
Updates to this page
Published 27 July 2017Last updated 31 October 2017 + show all updates
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Call closed.
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Minimum application value has been amended in call specification.
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First published.