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Train to Gain In Essex

Train to Gain In Essex. David Cowey GoSkills South Team Leader & Regional Business Adviser – East of England. SSC Role in Promoting Train to Gain. Sector Skills Councils. WHAT IS A SECTOR SKILLS COUNCIL?. Licensed by Government Employer led The Four Key Objectives of an SSC are:

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Train to Gain In Essex

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  1. Train to GainIn Essex David Cowey GoSkills South Team Leader & Regional Business Adviser – East of England

  2. SSC Role in Promoting Train to Gain Sector Skills Councils

  3. WHAT IS A SECTOR SKILLS COUNCIL? • Licensed by Government • Employer led • The Four Key Objectives of an SSC are: • Reducing skills gaps and shortages • Improving business performance • Increasing opportunities for learning • Improving the supply of learning

  4. “An Employers View” of Train to Gain

  5. Aims & Objectives • To provide Partners with key relevant and up to date sector specific information • Ensure brokers have the information required to interact and engage effectively • Improve the credibility of brokers • Ensure employers are provided with the best possible opportunities for development • Agree partnership working

  6. Sector Skills Agreement Stage 2 - Provision Stage 1 - LMI Stage 3 – Identify gaps, strengths & weaknesses Prioritise issues arising from SSA Stage 4 - Consultation Regional Meeting Suggest action plan Industry Meeting Suggest action plan Stakeholder Meeting Stage 5 - Final collaborative solutions agreed & signed off One document combining national, regional & local action plans

  7. Priority Issues for the Sector

  8. Current & Future Qualifications Standards & Qualification Team that are Responsible for: • Developing occupational standards & frameworks that support employers operations & training activities • Support the development of vocationally related qualifications

  9. Train to Gain Protocol It is the responsibility of each SSC to: • Promote Train to Gain availability to its Employers • Provide Quality referrals to the Train to Gain Brokers • Continually update brokers by providing briefing sessions

  10. Train to Gain Provision It is the responsibility of each SSC to: • Establish and Influence a Quality Provider Network • To Provide Sector Expertise and Guidance for Demand Led Change • Influence Regional Partner Working and where necessary deliver Brokerage Services

  11. Responsibility of SSCs for Train to Gain Work with Employers, partners and providers to meet the needs of Employers by providing a Best Practice, Quality service for every employer in each Industry of its Sector

  12. Leitch Implementation Plan “To Make Britain a World Leader in Skills by 2020”

  13. Leitch Implementation Plan

  14. Leitch Implementation Plan • Qualifications both for individuals and employers must deliver “economically valuable skills”. • Employers will be at the heart of a demand-led skills system. • New employer-led UK-wide Commission for Employment and Skills • More employer influence of Sector Skills Councils (SSCs)

  15. Leitch Implementation Plan • SSCs will be responsible for approving vocational qualifications • Employers and colleges will be able to have their own training schemes approved as qualifications provided they meet nationally-agreed criteria

  16. Leitch Implementation Plan SSCs are to be reformed with a new remit focused on raising employer ambition and investment in skills, articulating the future skill needs of their sector, and ensuring that the supply of skills and qualifications is driven by employers

  17. Responsibility of SSCs for Train to Gain Work with Employers, partners and providers to meet the needs of Employers by providing a Best Practice, Quality service for every employer in each Industry of its Sector

  18. Train to GainIn Essex David Cowey GoSkills South Team Leader & Regional Business Adviser – East of England

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