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SummitSkills: Empowering the Building Services Engineering Sector

SummitSkills is the Sector Skills Council for Building Services Engineering, promoting skills development and sustainable growth in the industry. Led by employers, it identifies and delivers solutions to skills issues, representing employers' views to the government. The organization encompasses diverse areas like plumbing, electrotechnical, heating, refrigeration, and air conditioning. SummitSkills collaborates with the National Skills Academy for Environmental Technologies and works closely with Engineering UK for STEM promotion and career progression in engineering. Explore www.summitskills.org.uk for more information.

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SummitSkills: Empowering the Building Services Engineering Sector

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  1. SummitSkillsKeith MarshallCEO Engineering UK Education and Skills Panel 18 October 2012

  2. SummitSkills The Sector Skills Council for Building Services Engineering • Plumbing • Electrotechnical • Heating & Ventilating • Refrigeration & Air Conditioning • 61,000 businesses employing • 613,000 people and contributing • £20 billion per annum to the UK economy

  3. SummitSkills Led by employers and licensed by government to: • Help increase employer investment in skills to • Drive enterprise • Create jobs and • Create sustainable growth

  4. SummitSkills Board of 12 trustees and Strategic Advisory Groups covering: • Mechanical industries • Electrotechnical industries • Manufacturers • Careers & diversity and • Professional Bodies Forum • 12 regions and nations employers’ groups ensuring • Employer led guidance and feedback on skills issues for • The sector, industries in the sector, nations and regions.

  5. SummitSkills What do we do? • Identify skills issues – research, employer groups • Develop solutions – with employers, usually within funded frameworks • Deliver solutions – working in partnership with AOs, colleges, HE, private providers • Represent employers’ views to government

  6. SummitSkills National Skills Academy for Environmental Technologies • Delivery • Awareness, Solar thermal, solar photovoltaic,rainwater harvesting, heat pumps .... • Quality assured provision • Based on QCF units • Hub and spoke model – 12 hubs and 68 spokes

  7. SummitSkills Funding • From core funding to contestable • EIF • GIF • Employer Ownership • Revenue generation • Employer contribution • NSAET – setup support then commercial

  8. SummitSkills The Future • Political environment • Fewer larger SSCs • Green issues are key – Green Deal, RHI • Continuing infrastructure – NOS, quals, frameworks • Reflect emerging business models • Challenging economic conditions – profile of the sector

  9. SummitSkills Work with Engineering UK • Cooperation not competition • Continuum from apprentice to chartered engineer • STEM promotion • IAG

  10. SummitSkills www.summitskills.org.uk

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