Explain how your proposed bootcamp:

• Addresses sector skills needs and priority occupations identified through local data and labour market information;
• Responds to clear evidence of skills gaps and vacancies; and
• Meets priorities set out in the Surrey Economic Growth Strategy

Please use the following links for additional information:

• Data and Labour Market Information
  Labour market information – Surrey County Council
• Business Surrey Document library
  Visit document library

Explain your target learner group/groups and why you are focusing on them (e.g., unemployed, independent, freelance, self-employed)

Describe your referral pathways and approach to learner engagement and enrolment, including how applicants will be assessed for:

• Likelihood of achieving all three payment milestones, with particular attention to Milestone 3
• Motivation to move into new employment opportunities or career progression after completing the bootcamp, and
• Learner suitability to the sector
• Learner readiness to engage and complete the Skills Bootcamp

It is essential that you outline your screening process and how this will ensure that the right learners are enrolled to minimise dropouts and maximise positive outcomes as well as highlighting how you will support key cohorts of learners, including young people aged 19-24, unemployed learners and those with additional needs.

You must explain how you will tailor your recruitment to ensure inclusivity, particularly how you will ensure processes are fair, transparent, and accessible.
Please also detail how you will support applicants and/or learners who are unsuccessful or drop-out at any stage.

Please describe your experience of delivering relevant employer-led training. Your answer must include:

• Experience of delivering training in this sector
• Experience of employer led training initiatives focusing on higher level skills (level 2-5 or equivalent)
• Experience of supporting learners through wraparound support and employability skills to achieve job outcomes

For each answer, please detail who funded the training.

If you have prior experience of delivering Skills Bootcamps in any sector, funded under DfE Skills for Life programme, you must include your previous provision and detail the performance achieved (specifically the number of Milestone 3 outcomes achieved against Milestone 1 starts).

Describe how you have collaborated with employers in designing your Skills Bootcamp(s). Your response should consider:

• How employers have been involved in co-designing the course content and selection of any accreditations to address skills gaps in their sectors
• How will you ensure these employers remain engaged throughout the course
• How your employers will be involved in course delivery
• How you will strengthen and grow your network of employers to deliver the Skills Bootcamps KPIs of 100% guaranteed interview offer and a minimum of 75% employment outcomes

Please list each employer who has engaged in the design, endorsement of content and/or offering vacancies for learners. Letters of commitment must be supplied and uploaded via the section below.

Where this application is written in partnership with an employer, please outline evidence of the vacancies on offer and how this content will address the need.

Outline the delivery model of your proposed bootcamp:

• What units will be covered through your course and what accreditations will be attained?
• Which elements will be online/in person?
• What is your rationale?
• What will be your learners journey through your bootcamp?
• How will learners be supported and/or signposted?
• How will learners be supported towards positive employment outcomes?
• How many GLH will learners complete?

Note: Surrey will not fund 100% online training delivery unless there is a strong business case

Please outline your approach to data collection, management and reporting to comply with DfE and SCC’s monthly reporting and evidence requirements (refer to the Skills Bootcamps Handbook W6) to document achievement of the following milestones:

• What experience do you have of uploading data to the DfE’s ILR?
• Signed enrolment form
• Proof that learner has received mandatory DfE information links
• Learner attendance register
• Copy of dated interview offer
• Proof of employment outcome (new job or career progression)

We expect bidders to demonstrate their approach to robust data collection. Data collection, storage and retrieval must be compliant with the requirements of General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR)

Scale and Pattern of delivery

Please confirm the length of the intended Skills Bootcamp

Delivery Method

Costs & Value for Money

Due to funding restrictions, VFM is an important factor in contributing to the success of an application.

Surrey County Council must maintain its due diligence of delivering value for money within the public sector but also must look to maintain its average cost across the programme.

Therefore, please provide a rationale as to:

• Why the cost per guided learning hour proposed is applicable for this sector
• How your proposal will still deliver value for money
• An explanation as to the cost breakdown.

Note: any grant award may create a subsidy, please ensure you are familiar with the Subsidy Control Act of 2022 and any implications of public funded grants for your organisation.