Priority 1
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Active | Priority 1: Improve the region’s sports, health, fitness and outdoors workforce to widen participation in sports and promote active lifestyles |
Physically active people, workplaces and communities | |
Key | 1.1 Improve the quantity and skills of the people, both paid and volunteers, who deliver sport in Yorkshire and the Humber | ||
1.2 In support of 1.1 develop the UK Centre of Coaching Excellence and Regional Coaching Centres to improve the quality of sports coaching in this region | |||
1.3 Maximise the opportunities for increasing take up of training and skills via the new National Skills Academy (Regional Hub) being led by SkillsActive | |||
1.4 Promote healthy lifestyles to young people, adults and communities at large by investing more in the skills and knowledge of front line staff dealing with the general public (e.g. skills devt. for health trainers, school nurses, exercise and fitness professionals, sports / community coaches and youth workers) | |||
1.5 Using the lever of Corporate Social Responsibility, promote the adoption of healthy active workplace initiatives in Yorkshire and the Humber to improve health and productivity of the employed workforce | |||
Priority 2
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Innovative (1) | Priority 2: Innovative use of sport, culture and the Olympic ideal to encourage success, achievement and enterprise | Attainment in skills that enable innovation to take place, and a contribution towards growing the region’s innovation culture | |
Key Objectives | 2.1 Support the implementation of LOCOG’s Education Plan (2) including curriculum developments to raise aspirations and increase achievement at GCSE level in this region, and promotion of ‘Values Clubs’ amongst schools, further and higher education institutions in the region | ||
2.2 Be innovative in the way we encourage all young people, including those not in education, employment or training (NEET), to take up opportunities relating to London 2012 | |||
2.3 Maximise London 2012 related activities with the region’s Enterprise College Network and PODIUM (3) Business and Enterprise theme partners in Yorkshire and the Humber | |||
2.4 Catalysed by the Games, promote a culture of innovation within our region’s business community in line with Regional Innovation Strategy objectives (4) | |||
1. Dictionary Definition: Innovation: something new or different introduced. the act of innovating; introduction of new things or methods
2. Pleas see http://www.london2012.com/get-involved/education/index.php
3. 'Podium' is the Further and Higher Education Unit for the 2012 Games. See www.podium.ac.uk
4. An example linkage here would be Yorkshire Forward’s focus on helping SMEs businesses develop an innovation strategy through workshops, seminars etc
Priority 3
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Competitive
| Priority 3: Develop procurement skills to encourage more regional businesses to tender for major events, public and private sector contracts |
Competitive businesses, young people, adults, athletes and workforce | |
Key | 3.1 Make best use of the London 2012 Business Network (including CompeteFor (1)) and deliver 2012 procurement and international trade support to the region’s business community | ||
3.2 Forge competitive advantage e.g. by supporting sports businesses and focus on the potential of sports technology transfer, advanced technology and environmental technology specialisms | |||
1. This is the new brand name for the E-Brokerage service linked to contracts that will be contracted to support the preparation or delivery of the Games. It forms part of something wider known as the Business Opportunities Network www.competefor.com
Priority 4
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Competitive | Priority 4: Maximise opportunities of WorldSkills 2011 / UK Skills competitions to foster skilled and competitive young people | Competitive businesses, young people, adults, athletes and workforce | |
Key | 4.1 Support our region’s young competitors and their trainers for success in skills, educational and sporting competitions | ||
Priority 5
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Competitive | Priority 5: Ensure adequate investment in elite coaching skills / training camp workforce to provide world-class services to athletes / competitors | Competitive businesses, young people, adults, athletes and workforce | |
Key | 5.1 Identify, and meet skills and training needs of people working / volunteering in our region’s pre-Games training camps | ||
Priority 6
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Competitive | Priority 6: Identify and respond to the skills, knowledge, innovation and business support needs in sectors which are key to 2012, and which offer long term growth / employment potential in this region | Competitive businesses, young people, adults, athletes and workforce | |
Key | 6.1 Work with the SfBN to identify the main opportunities for supporting their sectors’ to support and benefit from the Games | ||
6.2 Through innovative engagement with businesses and IDB (1), enhance general skills including leadership and management making best use of Train to Gain and Higher Level Skills programmes | |||
6.3 Use the Games to inspire more young people and adults to learn and acquire essential, Level 2 and Level 3 qualifications | |||
6.4 Develop imaginative skills and careers promotion approaches to increase take up of learning or employment in key 2012-related sectors within the region | |||
1. Information, Diagnostic and Brokerage
Priority 7
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Attractive | Priority 7: In preparation of the Games, improve customer service skills in all relevant industries and occupations across Yorkshire and the Humber |
Staff service levels across the visitor economy, events and cultural workforce | |
Key | 7.1 Develop training solutions to improve ‘booking’ experience for customers (i.e. ICT skills in tourism SMEs) and destination ‘first impressions’ / service skills in customer-facing roles (e.g. visitor welcome, upselling / cross-selling skills cultural awareness and ESOL / foreign language) | ||
Priority 8
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Attractive | Priority 8: Invest in major events workforce skills development (paid and volunteering opportunities) including Cultural Olympiad talent development | Staff service levels across the visitor economy, events and cultural workforce | |
Key | 8.1 Work with the Cultural Olympiad Steering Group to identify and meet skills needs to support the Cultural Olympiad | ||
8.2 Identify (through appropriate research) and address the skills and knowledge needs for major (international) event workforce development in this region | |||
Priority 9
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Inclusive | Priority 9: Use London 2012 to derive long term benefits for people who are socially excluded or disadvantaged (1) improving employability skills where they are needed most |
Inclusive employment, learning and volunteering opportunities for people in our region | |
Key | 9.1 Maximise London 2012 Personal Best programme (2) and help develop a skills legacy for the region’s VCS / Third Sector | ||
9.2 Use sport and culture as a pathway into learning, employment and progression e.g. Use the Personal Best programme principles as a step into learning or employment to help tackle worklessness | |||
1. To include rural disadvantage, those remote from the labour market, returning to work, long term unemployed, workless / incapacity benefit claimants and those in ethnic minority communities
2. This is the new name for the Games Pre-Volunteering Programme
Priority 10
Skills, education and employment interventions that will help Yorkshire become more… |
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Inclusive | Priority 10: Through the inspiration of the Paralympic Games significantly raise our region’s awareness and knowledge of diversity issues and opportunities |
Inclusive employment, learning and volunteering opportunities for people in our region | |
Key | 10.1 Identify and respond to key opportunities for using the Games to promote opportunities and support to people with a disability (1) | ||
10.2 Ensure that 14-25 learners are fully engaged by the Games ideals and encouraged to achieve more than would otherwise be expected | |||
10.3 Use the Paralympic Games to challenge perceptions about disability (in sport, work etc). Link in to the planned Ability Plus campaign or its principles | |||
1. This includes people with physical, mental and learning disabilities