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Employer Ownership Pilot - Prospectus

The Employer Ownership of Skills pilot is a competitive fund open to employers to invest in their current and future workforce in England. Employers are invited to develop proposals that raise skills, create jobs, and drive enterprise and economic growth. Government will invest in projects in which employers are also prepared to commit their own funds in order to make better use of our combined resources.

Round 2 was launched on the 20 November 2012 and asks for full or outline proposals by 28 March 2013. 

All bids must demonstrate that they are driven by and respond to employers needs. In some cases, an intermediary may be useful to bring the bidders together, manage activity and be accountable for funding. Individual employers are also eligible to put forward proposals.

You can read through an online version of the prospectus or download a copy from the link below.

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Thank you for your interest in the Employer Ownership of Skills Pilot. You can now access the application form and accompanying guidance on this website.

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Ministerial Foreword

Better skills are vital for the prosperity of our country. Yet to support the right skills, we need a much stronger focus on what employers want. The Employer Ownership Pilot seeks innovative solutions to how Government and employers, in partnership, can provide the skills our country needs.

Earlier this year we announced the winning bids from round 1 of the Employer Ownership Pilot. These bids were led by employers across diverse sectors and regions, and lived up to a challenging invitation. This invitation encouraged employers to come forward with radical ideas to test out their vision for employer ownership of skills: to take the lead and shape the skills agenda according to their business needs and show government where we can improve to better align private and public sector investment and grow our economy.

Driven by quality and innovation, the winning projects from round 1 explore potential new strategies for designing the skills system, for training and engaging a diverse workforce and achieving our common goal of growth. In round 2 we ask you to be yet more innovative in your approach and ambitious in your scope. We encourage you to collaborate across sector, region or supply chain, to form partnerships with training providers and other organisations, to involve your employees – to create ambitious, transformative proposals that will deliver the skills we need.

These pages set out the invitation to employers to put forward proposals for round 2 of the pilot. How would you use public investment, alongside your own, to shape the skills agenda, to train your current and future workforce, to create jobs and drive enterprise? I look forward to receiving the proposals you put forward and engaging with you on how we can, together, best provide the skills our country needs.

Matthew Hancock - Minister for Skills

 

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