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Region of Learning and Creativity Strategy – Impact, Outcomes, Evaluation and Call to Action

We will monitor progress towards the outcomes in this strategy. These outcomes represent long-term ambition, and this is a 10-year strategy.

Outcomes summary

The approach to evaluation will follow the best practice and guidance outlines in the Combined Authority’s Evaluation Strategy. The following page provides a summary of the outcomes identified in the Region of Learning and Creativity Strategy.

High level outcomes:

  • To support more residents with skills for life and work and increase labour market productivity.
  • To improve business productivity to support growth, prosperity and thriving communities.

Broader long-term outcomes:

Ongoing monitoring

The Region of Learning and Creativity represents a portfolio of programmes, promoting cross policy working and a joined-up approach to system challenges. 

Bringing programmes together in this way will seek to:

  • Increase collaboration and partnership working.
  • Deliver further devolution for West Yorkshire.
  • Demonstrate how regional investment will deliver for people locally.

Through our headline commitments, region-wide action plans and ongoing programme level evaluations, we will monitor progress towards the outcomes in this strategy. These outcomes represent long-term ambition, and this is a 10-year strategy. We will publish an annual Region of Learning and Creativity Report, demonstrating cumulative progress towards outcomes over time.

In line with our principles, the Region of Learning and Creativity will be outcomes led and place-based, therefore how these outcomes are delivered will be flexible. This will ensure we are responsive to learning what works and to any significant changes in the social and political conditions that affect regional funding or responsibilities.

Finally, considering the voices of our communities and residents will be integral to reviewing the success of a Region of Learning and Creativity. This strategy has set out where and how we can go further to embed resident voice in our programmes. Any reports or evaluations will seek to demonstrate to what extent a Region of Learning and Creativity has delivered for them.

Pen Portraits

The below pen portraits demonstrate the potential impact of Region of Learning and Creativity for two West Yorkshire residents.

Call to action

Delivering a Region of Learning and Creativity requires a shared regional ambition, matched by the powers and levers to act decisively. West Yorkshire is already demonstrating what can be achieved when systems work together, but to embed those long-term lasting changes we need:

  • Deeper devolution of careers, skills and employment functions, so support can be designed around the lived reality of West Yorkshire’s labour market.
  • Direct commissioning powers, enabling a coherent, end to end system of provision from early years through to adulthood
  • Long-term fair and flexible funding settlements, replacing fragmented streams with the ability to plan, innovate and invest where the evidence shows it will have most impact.
  • Stronger local levers to shape employer support, technical education pathways and labour market aligned investment ensuring growth benefits every community.
  • Further collaboration with government in areas of evolving regional responsibility and a commitment to tackle system issues together, recognising our shared responsibility for West Yorkshire residents: silo working can no longer be an option.

This strategy is a collective call to action. To realise a happy, prosperous region with a growing economy, we need partners across education, business, culture, health, local authorities and communities to join us.

Together we can build a West Yorkshire where learning fuels creativity, drives growth and every resident can thrive.

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