Northern Territory Training Operations Unit Overview

1. Northern TerritoryTraining Operations Unit Overview

2. What are the areas of responsibility • General Recurrent funding • Pre Employment / pre apprenticeship funding • BuildSkills program • User Choice funding • Apprenticeship travel and accommodation subsidy $1.8 mill • Apprenticeship regulation • Group Training Organisation approval • Joint Group Training Program funding $415K shared • Apprenticeship Support Services Contract Management • VET infrastructure to support the stimulus projects and VIIP

3. Industry Groups & Rate Arts, Entertainment, Sports and Recreation 9.00 Automotive 12.00 Building and Construction 12.00 Community Services, Health and Education 9.00 Finance, Banking and Insurance 8.00 Food Processing 14.00 TCF and Furnishings 9.00 Communications 9.00 Engineering and Mining 11.00 Primary Industry 8.50 Process Manufacturing 10.00 Sales and Personal Service 10.00 Tourism and Hospitality 8.00 Transport and Storage 9.00 Utilities 9.00 Business and Clerical 7.00 Computing 8.00 Science, Technology and Other 8.00 General Education and Training 9.00 Exceptions – Commerical Fishing (Deckhands) 12.50 Exceptions – Cooking 10.00 Additional loadings: Remote 1: delivery in Tennant Ck, Nhulunbuy and Jabiru 1.00 Remote 2: delivery more than 50 kms from Urban 4.00

4. Pre Employment • Pre Employment • $250,000 per annum • Competitive funding based on submissions throughout the year • Can be accredited or non accredited • Submissions need to have industry support and identified employment outcomes • Program outcome to achieve employment preferably into apprenticeships or traineeships.

5. BuildSkills • BuildSkills • Introduced in 2006 as part of election commitment • Funding reduced in 2009/10 to approximately $300,000 following PPP • Program aims to up skill or re skill existing workers in response to introduction of legislation or changes to licensing requirements or industry need to support projects • Competitive funding based on submissions throughout the year that include an industry or participant contribution • Submissions must demonstrate industry support or need

6. General Recurrent • General Recurrent • Approx $33 million • Provided to: • 2 Public Providers • 4 Private Providers • Based on agreed profile submitted to DET annually • Payment based on submitted AVETMISS data of achievement against profile targets • Not available to other providers

7. User Choice • User Choice • 2010 budget $12.5 mill approx (explain why approx) • Estimated approx $13 million for 2011 • Provided to 60 providers including interstate TAFE’s • RTO’s make application based on projections for the following calendar year • All RTOs that are considered are interviewed prior to being offered a Resource Agreement • Resource Agreements – 12 months – Jan to Dec • Payments based on submitted AVETMISS data of achievement against target and where relevant acquittal of the previous years contract

8. User Choice • User Choice nominal hours and duration of qualifications are based on Victorian Implementation Guide • Funding Methodology: • NT Government priorities • Skill shortages • Indigenous • Remote • Traditional Trades • Higher level qualifications • Achievement history of RTO

9. User Choice 2008 Actual v 2009 Estimated and Actual and 2010 Estimated • 2008 Actual • 950,408 AHC value $12,014,232 • 2009 Estimate (Budget $12.2 mill) • 1,049,400AHC value $13,283,000 approx • 2009 Actual • 970,786 AHC value $12,231,903 • 2010 Estimate (Budget $12.5 mill) • 1,110,160 AHC value $13,980,000 approx

10. Apprentice Travel and Accommodation • $1.8 mill per annum • Supports apprentices and trainees that are required to travel to attend their off the job training. • Predominantly used to support apprentices travelling interstate but also supports intra state. • Eg Interstate: glaziers to Tassie, Avionics to Adelaide instrumentation to Brisbane. • Not available when the apprentice or employer choose to go interstate when the training is available locally • Not available to SBAT’s for interstate

11. 2009 Technical Improvements / Developments Electronic Application • Introduced in 2008 to aid the review / allocation process Requested additional information: • Reasons for low or non-delivery in 2010 and strategies to achieve 2011 targets • Facilities, staff & resources available to apprentices and/or trainees, and employers • Ability to provide support services (E.g. mentoring, regular contact) to apprentices / trainees • Training methods specifically if delivered in Remote 2 • Existing employer contacts / arrangements • Marketing strategies • Ability to supply AVETMISS compliant data to DET four times a year • Previous success in meeting apprenticeship and or traineeship targets

12. Group Training Funding • $415 K per year split 50/50 between NTG and AG • Only available to registered Group Training Organisations • Incentives for commencement progression and completion • With sub categories with additional incentive for ATSI, remote, skills shortage and SBAT also commencement incentive for PPP • Paid on actual apprentices and trainees against negotiated targets amended throughout the FY