Our ACL Agenda & Housekeeping - PowerPoint Presentation

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Our ACL

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Agenda & Housekeeping

Katherine Burns – ACL Principal

Christian Norman – Vice Principal Curriculum & Learning Jo Loss – Learning Technologies Manager Teresa Ablewhite – Vice Principal Quality & Compliance Questions & Comments Claire Maynard – Business Operations Manager Amanda Rawlings – Commercial Manager Richard Kirchel – Marketing, Comms & PR Lead Questions & Comments

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Our ACL

Improving lives through learning

Katherine Burns

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Thank you

Reflections on 2019-2020 academic year

Impact of Covid-19 (economy, health and wellbeing, unemployment)Working differently and amove to virtual / digital learningCollaboration and learning

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2020-21 academic year

Challenging year ahead (learner confidence, different models of delivery, centre

utilisation)Update on strategy and plansExciting new initiatives for 2020-21 in key strategic areas (SLT) Collaboration – work together as team ACL

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Our ACL

Curriculum and Learning

Christian Norman

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Curriculum and Learning Update

Agility of the ACL curriculum offer

Impact of COVID-19SocialEconomicCurriculum and learning priorities 20/21

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Our ACL -

Learning Technologies

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New Technology and Changes

Self Service payroll

Accessibility Legislation – law on 23rd SeptOffice 365 for Education and new VLEHuge thank you for all your hard work

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ACL’s Strengths

Cross Curriculum Working –

supportive and sharing best practiceDigital Heroes - innovative methods of deliveryCustomer Service and tutors working with us to support learners getting online.Cross Service Working and Networking supporting others with online learning

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Strategic aims

ACL Strategic Aims & Priorities

Deliver an offer to improve skills for work

Deliver an offer to improve social inclusion and mobility Deliver an offer to support good health and personal development

Improve digital participation and inclusion

Support learners to progress and achieve their goals

Enable all staff to be the best they can be

Embed a culture of continuous improvement and personal accountability

Secure additional sources of revenue

Raise awareness of ACL to internal and external markets

Increase participation in learning for adults and young people

Inform future priorities for ACL

Make ACL centres a ‘place to go’ in our communities

Maximise use of ACL centres

Ensure ACL centres are inspiring, safe, accessible and inclusive

Help shape ‘places for learning’

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What next?

Continue to offer varied CPD and sharing best practice.

Hope to gain some Microsoft innovation Educator ExpertsImprove ways of working eg Digital Badges for CPD

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Our ACL

Quality

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Quality Strategic Objectives

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle

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Work already underway

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Quality Frameworks

Ofsted

- Reviewing how effectively provision has resumed fully following an extended break in formal education, including considering remote education and safeguarding. Discussions will be around ….Matrix – due for renewal in June 2021

Identifying the barriers that ACL have faced and are still facing in managing the return to full education for learners

The curriculum and how it meets the reasonable needs of learners and stakeholders

The approaches used to develop learner’s knowledge and skills

Safeguarding arrangements

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Q & A Session

5 minutes

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Our ACL

Business Operations

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Creating great spaces to live, work and learn.

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ACL Strategic Aims & Priorities

Make ACL centres a ‘place to go’ in our communities

Maximise use of ACL centres

Ensure ACL centres are inspiring, safe, accessible and inclusive

Help shape ‘places for learning’

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Where are we with the Strategy?

Working with ECC re property strategy.

Covid – 19 has had a great impact.Move to on-line delivery has changed the way we work. What cannot be delivered remotely and how can we offer these courses? The way in which we work. Priority is to ensure buildings are as safe as they can be.Working with partners, for example Libraries.

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Health and Safety

Regular briefings to update staff

Please provide feedback on these sessions using www.aclessex.com/our-aclWelcome questions from staff and will have a question and answer session at the end of the briefings. Thank You 

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Commercial Update & Projects

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The ACL Commercial Team turned 1 on the 1

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SeptemberIts overarching strategic aim: To ensure that ACL is fit for the future

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Improving our systems & processes

Development of robust and user-friendly data & reports

Seeking new business opportunitiesSecuring additional funding streams & incomesCollaborative workingIncreasing our marketing and sales activity

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Apprenticeship Levy Transfer Service

There are multiple employers within Essex who are not fully utilising their apprenticeship levy funds

Levy paying employers are able to transfer (gift) up to 25% of their levy to other businesses to pay for the training of an apprentice The service will enable Levy paying employers to ‘gift’ unused levy funds to Essex based SMEs. Reducing reliance on government funds and allocationsOur new Employer Engagement Team will be working with businesses across Essex to maximise new apprenticeship opportunities for ACLWe have so far secured £405k of unspent levy for delivery by ACL from the Mid & South NHS trust, and are awaiting on the outcome of a £416k proposal from The BBC

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The Nightingale Bursary

We have secured £299,730k to deliver training to staff currently working within the Health & Care Sector

Courses include Diplomas and Certificates from levels 2 through to 5Will provide opportunities for those ineligible for apprenticeships or full AEB funding to access qualifications without chargeThe project will support 195 existing Health & Care employees

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A few other things…

Been given approval to deliver Customer Service and Healthcare Cleaning Operative apprenticeships to the NHS

A leading partner in the new Clacton Health Campus initiativeWe have successfully won a bid to facilitate individuals in accessing the 2021 Online Census Delivery of a Routes into Nursing Pilot Programme for the North Essex NHS TrustCurrently awaiting outcomes on approx. 6 other bids

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And just a few more…

Sourcing electronic signature tech to improve enrolment and paperwork completion in some curriculum areas

Continuous improvement of our data accuracy Creation of the ACL Innovation BoardProposed a new Fees & Charges policy that will give us agility and greater autonomy as a serviceNational Retraining Scheme – ACLWorking Families Project Sponsored by Mark Carroll and Cllr McKinley

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Marketing

Our ACL

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Key objectives 2020-21

Increase the

brand recognition and awareness of our servicesEmbed an evidence-led approach to marketing activityImprove digital engagement and customer experience Expand our community and sense of belongingAll this will contribute to ACL being fit for the future.

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2019/20 Highlights

New website launch and branding

Social media channels for individual areas - 20.1% during Summer months acquisition traffic to website compared to 4% this time last yearEmail marketing engagement +50%

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2019/20 highlights continued

Staff generated content: Online Summer programmes

Articles, case studies and storiesShowcasing learner feedbackLatest news and updates real time

Central hub for all information distributed across all chanels

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How we grow

Feedback, photos, success stories - let us know what you have planned.

Facebook and Google reviews – ask learners to help us reach more people and share experiencesReview your areas on the website, let us know how else we can support you, improve information etc.This all helps us improve our service.acl.marketing@essex.gov.uk

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Feedback/ideas

Your input and collaboration is crucial to our success.

We welcome all feedback from staff.Online form: ACLESSEX.COM/our-acl

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Q & A