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• AmbITion

  30 Jun 2011

  This e-skills UK project will create an improved pipeline of talent into the IT industry.

• Asset Skills: Increasing Employer Investment in Higher level skills

  5 Jan 2012

  Asset skills is looking to increase employer investment in and the take up of higher level skills programmes across the cleaning and housing sector.

• Asset Skills: Intelligence to maximise skills investment and career opportunities

  5 Jan 2012

  Asset Skills are to maintain a rolling programme of action research and an on-going review of the strategic business plan.

• Asset Skills: Routes To Employment

  21 Dec 2011

  The project will link the UK wide Department for Work and Pensions Work Programme with employment opportunities in cleaning, facilities management and parking together with a training intervention (funded through the Work Programme).

• Asset Skills: Talent Management

  5 Jan 2012

  This project will develop and pilot talent management models with employers. The proposal will implement a programme of business to business mentoring and support across the sector.

• Cogent: Life Sciences

  21 Dec 2011

  This project will provide a skills infrastructure to support a home grown talent pipeline for the UK Life Sciences sector. The investment will market test and stimulate employer investment in UK skills by developing four employer led and employer supported propositions.

• Cogent: Nuclear

  12 Jan 2012

  Three interrelated strands of work to ensure the skills are in place at the right time for the Nuclear industry.

• Cogent: Process Industries

  4 Jan 2012

  Establishing the Gold Standard as the Process Industry standard for skills and its de facto voluntary ‘Licence to Practise’.

• ConstructionSkills: The Low Carbon Challenge

  5 Jan 2012

  With the ‘Green Deal’ about to ‘go live’, the focus of this investment is to build capacity within local supply chains and provider networks as the market starts to respond.

• Creative & Cultural Skills: Academies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

  5 Jan 2012

  The investment is to set up National Skills Academies in Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland with their primary focus being the delivery of: Apprenticeships; continuing professional development (CPD) provision; and careers information, advice and guidance (IAG).

• Creative & Cultural Skills: Ambassadors for Growth

  5 Jan 2012

  Creative & Cultural Skills will work to address employers’ lack of knowledge about how to identify and address their own training needs and to provide tailored support for hard-to-reach employers, including SMEs and sole traders, by putting in place a network of ‘Ambassadors for Growth’. These will be sector experts embedded in industry, working with Creative & Cultural Skills and with training providers.

• Development of the Skills Passport for Health

  30 Jun 2011

  Skills for Health are developing a skills passport for the health sector.

• EIF phase one investments

  30 Jun 2011

  A table and range of documents which summarise all the EIF phase one investments.

• Energy and Utility Skills: Generating Skills Investment through Supply Chain Collaboration

  5 Jan 2012

  Through this investment, Energy and Utility Skills will create a step change in the scale and efficiency in skills investment by the sector’s supply chain.

• Energy and Utility Skills: Market Intelligence to raise Employer Investment

  5 Jan 2012

  Energy and Utility Skills will use this investment to deliver in-depth foresight work for the rapidly changing energy, utility and environmental sector. The investment will extend the use of the Energy and Utility Skills Workforce Planning Model (WPM), and will provide analysis of new skills needs on which investment decisions can be made.

• Energy and Utility Skills: Raising the Sector Profile to Attract New Entrants

  5 Jan 2012

  Energy and Utility Skills will create a suite of interactive tools aimed specifically at potential new entrants to raise the profile of the sector. The interactive tools will be supplemented by new e-learning materials for careers advisors and influencers. A Green Ambassadors programme will be rolled out across the four nations to work with schools to stimulate interest in careers in the Renewables sector.

• Energy and Utility Skills: Stimulating New Entrant Training in Renewable Energy

  5 Jan 2012

  This Energy and Utility Skills project will deliver extensive and co-ordinated engagement and actions including the creation of a Group Skills Purchasing Scheme. The investment will also provide quality assured training to address the skills needed for the delivery of new energy technologies and to meet the anticipated growth in jobs in renewable energy.

• e-skills UK: Employment and Entrepreneurship

  5 Jan 2012

  This e-skills UK project will help businesses and individuals develop the skills to participate fully in the e-economy. This will be achieved through increasing digital literacy among employers and working with “Startup Britain” to help entrepreneurs to make the most of technology to promote innovation and growth.

• e-skills UK: Higher Education Pathways

  5 Jan 2012

  Through this investment e-skills UK will develop a world-class pipeline of graduate talent into IT careers. Employers will support the enhancement of university degrees and offer attractive student placements, this will also address gender imbalance in IT degrees.

• e-skills UK: Informed Choices

  5 Jan 2012

  e-skills UK will use this investment to inspire young people to pursue IT-related education and careers in the high growth IT sector

• e-skills UK: Vocational Pathways

  5 Jan 2012

  Through this investment, e-skills UK will transform the opportunity for people to enter IT through vocational pathways rather than the traditional academic route.

• e-skills UK: Workforce Skills

  5 Jan 2012

  This e-skills UK project will enable the UK’s IT professional workforce to better derive business value from technology through the adoption of IT Professional Standards, and skills benchmarking using a common language.

• Extending the Tick – a skills sat-nav

  30 Jun 2011

  Skillset is creating a gold standard for the creative industries signposting the very best in training and education, the Skillset Tick. This project will extend the kitemark to Apprenticeships, Internships, vocational progression and feeder courses. It will also provide a navigation tool to identify good practice.

• Financial Skills Partnership: Leadership 21C

  5 Jan 2012

  Financial Skills Partnership will develop standards and guidance for the industry including: competence standards; best practice; culture and behaviours; a toolkit for best practice application; women onto boards, and; benefiting from age diversity.

• Financial Skills Partnership: The Hidden Powerhouse

  5 Jan 2012

  With this investment, Financial Skills Partnership will develop a foundation college, pre-employment programme, internships and an employment pathway, which will recruit unemployed graduates and fast track their employability into Small and Medium sized Enterprises.

• Green deal competency framework

  30 Jun 2011

  CITB-ConstructionSkills is working to ensure the construction industry has the right skills in place to be able to support a major government initiative –the Green Deal – which is designed to help the UK meet stringent targets on the reduction of energy. This will require 14 million homes to be retrofitted with energy saving technology between 2012 and 2020 to improve home energy efficiency and is estimate to create up to 100,000 jobs in construction

• Improve: Benchmark

  5 Jan 2012

  Improve will develop a sector specific tool which will enable food and drink companies to benchmark their performance against their counterparts on a number of business measures and identify key areas for improvement. The tool will be based on customisation and extension of the DTI Benchmarking Index.

• Improve: Blueprint for Excellence

  5 Jan 2012

  This Improve project will produce a ‘Blueprint’ or ‘Excellence Standard’, by engaging with the top performing companies in the sector to capture the skills and knowledge that represent individual best practice in a wide range of job roles.

• Improve: Tasty Graduates

  5 Jan 2012

  Improve’s ‘Tasty Graduates’ will create a ‘Centre of Excellence in Food Production Engineering’ within the UK and also a new Undergraduate level sandwich course in food engineering, through working with key industry employers and the Food & Drink Federation as part of their Graduate Ambition activity. It will establish this area as both a discipline and a profession in its own right.

• Improve: Tasty Jobs

  5 Jan 2012

  The Improve project ‘Tasty Jobs’ represents work with employers, relevant government organisations and the agency labour providers who are critical to providing skilled labour to the sector to identify and address the policy and procedural barriers which prevent an unemployed person securing a long-term employment opportunity with an employer in their local community.

• Institute of the Motor Industry: Attracting and retaining talent in the automotive sector

  11 Jan 2012

  IMI aim to attract and retain talent in the automotive sector by developing a programme infrastructure and resources to link careers teachers and practitioners with industry employers and trainers in order to give them first hand insight into what a career in the industry entails and by providing a cohesive, sector specific CIAG portal.

• Institute of the Motor Industry: Develop an infrastructure to improve the poor levels of management and leadership capability in the sector

  11 Jan 2012

  IMI will develop an infrastructure to improve the poor levels of management and leadership capability in the sector. The investment will also help develop and implement a sector wide cohesive Management and Leadership programme for the automotive sector which will remove duplication and enable more employers to access a flexible, coherent infrastructure which brings a step change in the way the sector develops and supports its managers.

• Institute of the Motor Industry: Development of a 14-16 automotive vocational programme to reduce the number of young people becoming ‘Not in Education, Employment or Training’ (NEET)

  11 Jan 2012

  This investment will lead to the development of a 14-16 automotive vocational programme to reduce the number of young people becoming Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET).

• Institute of the Motor Industry: Expand and embed the Automotive sector’s Professional Register as the voluntary Licence to Practise

  11 Jan 2012

  With the support of the Employer Investment Fund, IMI will expand and embed the automotive sector’s Professional Register as the voluntary Licence to Practise.

• Institute of the Motor Industry: Increasing current competence levels developing a new approach to upskilling the automotive technician population

  11 Jan 2012

  This IMI project will increase current competence levels through the development of an Assessed Outcome Modular (AOM) approach to re-accreditation for all routes within the Automotive Technician Accreditation (ATA) scheme.

• Institute of the Motor Industry: Making and winning the economic argument for employer investment in skills using RoI studies

  11 Jan 2012

  This IMI project will create a portfolio of specific Return on Investment (RoI) studies to make and win the argument for sustained investment in skills by employers in the Automotive Retail sector.

• Lantra: Professional Standards Framework

  5 Jan 2012

  Employers want to recognise the professional standards to which individuals work in the industry and have requested the development of Continual Professional Standards schemes to recognise and continue to develop and enhance these professional standards.

• Lantra: Promoting Careers: supporting entry and progression routes

  5 Jan 2012

  Through this investment, Lantra aim to solve the recruitment problems in the sector by combining an information, advice and guidance (IAG) portal with employer/stakeholder support

• Lantra: The Land Based Business Centre

  5 Jan 2012

  The Land Based Business Centre is a web-based tool for stimulating workforce development by ensuring that employers and learners can readily access sector specific on-line information regarding skills and business development. This will enable them to maximise the economic return on their investment in human capital.

• Life Sciences SMEs and Licence to Practise

  30 Jun 2011

  Cogent are exploring the applicability of a framework to operate based on the existing Cogent Gold Standard. The focus will be on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the Life Sciences sector.

• People 1st: Accelerating social mobility in the workplace

  5 Jan 2012

  Hospitality, passenger transport, travel and tourism is one of the few UK sectors predicted to grow significantly in the coming decade. People 1st have identified four key projects essential to this growth.

• People 1st: Achieving economic growth by improving the customer experience

  5 Jan 2012

  Despite tourism’s importance to the economy, the UK is ranked only 13th in the Nations Brand Index for warmth of welcome.

• People 1st: Aligning employers and stakeholders to deliver sustained growth through skills

  5 Jan 2012

  As part of the product development strategy for People 1st the proposal seeks investment to continue researching and developing initiatives that employers will invest in across all four nations to ensure it is able to respond to the changing and challenging economic climate.

• People 1st: Helping The Unemployed

  5 Jan 2012

  Employers in some parts of the sector are over reliant on migrant workers whilst others find it difficult to recruit new staff due to poor perception and image of the sector.

• People 1st: Increasing business investment in skills and reducing wasted public expenditure

  5 Jan 2012

  This People 1st project will strengthen the links between pre employment training programmes and apprenticeships to help individuals progress from unemployed into higher skilled and management roles.

• People 1st: Professionalising the workforce and increasing the effectiveness of training

  5 Jan 2012

  The hospitality sector requires better skilled workforce. Many of the gaps are around customer service, technical skills and management and leadership. People 1st have developed a project to address these gaps.

• Semta: Attracting new talent to fill in the skills gaps in SMEs through Apprenticeships

  5 Jan 2012

  This SEMTA project will contribute to achieving the vision of dramatically increasing the take up of apprenticeships and Modern Apprenticeships across the UK by supply chain companies.

• Semta: Attracting new talent to fill in the skills gaps in SMEs through graduates

  5 Jan 2012

  This SEMTA project will contribute to achieving the vision of improving the quality and effectiveness of Small to Medium sized Enterprise (SME) engagement with Higher Education (HE).

• Semta: Transforming the skills and productivity of the supply chain companies current workforce

  5 Jan 2012

  This SEMTA project will contribute to the vision of the science and engineering sector becoming world class by improving the productivity and competitiveness of 20,000 small and medium supply chain companies

• Semta: Advanced Skills Accreditation Scheme

  1 Aug 2012

  The scheme will raise the skills of engineers and technical staff working across the Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering sector, and boost the nation’s high-level engineering skills.

• Skills for Care and Development: ‘Learn from Learning’ – comparison website and toolkit

  5 Jan 2012

  This Skills for Care and Development project will develop an evaluation and benchmarking toolkit to help employers maximise their returns from spending on workforce and organisational development.

• Skills for Care and Development: Mobile Learning and Knowledge Solutions

  5 Jan 2012

  This Skills for Care and Development project is to develop a range of learning resources and services designed for delivery on mobile devices. The intention is to provide freely available learning products for use across a range of devices including, Smartphones, ‘tablet computers’ and other readily available handheld consoles.

• Skills for Care and Development: Recruiting a world class workforce

  5 Jan 2012

  This Skills for Care and Development project will develop innovative initiatives to increase the number of new recruits, improve perceptions of the care sector and stimulate growth.

• Skills for Care and Development: Supporting employers with the workforce implications of Assistive Technologies

  5 Jan 2012

  This Skills for Care and Development project will take a strategic approach to the development of a national training strategy for assistive technology.

• Skills For Health: Quality Mark

  5 Jan 2012

  Skills For Health will be developing a Quality Mark which will deliver a solution for employers to enable them to use available learning provision much more effectively.

• Skills For Health: Role redesign for Support Workers

  5 Jan 2012

  This Skills For Health project will help workers in the health sector work more innovatively across traditional boundaries.

• Skills For Health: Skills Utilisation (networks)

  5 Jan 2012

  This Skills For Health project will expand the use and take up of a number of pilots where productivity gains and quality improvements have been demonstrated through more effective use and deployment of workforce and skills.

• Skills for Justice: High Performing People

  10 Jan 2012

  The unprecedented public sector reform requires new skills and a step change in individual performance. This Skills For Justice project will support a more modernised, flexible and diverse workforce which is needed to transform service delivery.

• Skills for Justice: High Performing Workplaces

  5 Jan 2012

  Skills For Justice will trial and test the use and value of a range of existing tools including ISO and IiP across the sector and develop new tools in three test bed sites across the UK.

• Skills for Justice: New Employers, new models

  5 Jan 2012

  Employers in the Justice sector have identified a need for support in using a range of business improvement and process re-engineering tools to deliver transformational change. Skills for Justice will trial and test the use and value of a range of existing tools including ISO and IiP across the sector and develop new tools in three test bed sites across the UK.

• Skills For Justice: Working across boundaries

  5 Jan 2012

  The Justice sector has identified a need to realise cost savings by working together more effectively. Skills For Justice will work with employers in clusters, align job functions and define roles and responsibilities across organisations.

• Skills for Logistics: Intelligent Logistics

  11 Jan 2012

  With ‘Intelligent Logistics’, Skills for Logistics will drive employer ownership of the skills system through the collation of intelligence derived from employer-led, occupational groupings.

• Skills for Logistics: Local Logistics

  11 Jan 2012

  With ‘Local Logistics’, Skills for Logistics will create Local Logistics Community Networks (LLCNs) where clusters of employers will take action to activate local talent pools, attracting new and able job-seekers into the sector.

• Skills for Logistics: Professional Logistics

  11 Jan 2012

  Through ‘Professional Logistics’, Skills for Logistics will drive employer ownership of the professionalisation and attractiveness of the sector by laying the foundations for the development of the UK Modern Logistics Guild (UKMLG).

• Skills for Logistics: Progressive Logistics

  11 Jan 2012

  With ‘Progressive Logistics’, Skills for Logistics will increase access for employers to state-of-the-art, quality assured skills and training products in order to drive business and performance improvement, resulting in smarter investment in skills.

• SkillsActive: Active Ambition

  11 Jan 2012

  In 2010, leading employers in leisure and fitness, through their trade associations, signed and committed to a Skills Protocol (Pledge), demonstrating their ambition and commitment to invest in skills. This investment builds on this and extends the approach across the SkillsActive sector. It will support the development of a ‘single qualifications framework’, ensuring that all employees have a training plan and support the development of a Chartered Institute for the sector.

• Skillset: Creative Ambition

  12 Jan 2012

  Through ‘Creative Ambition’, Skillset will encourage collaboration and support collective action among employers and individuals to overcome the structural barriers to the acquisition of and investment in skills

• Skillset: Creative Futures

  12 Jan 2012

  Creative Futures are strategic interventions and pilot schemes identified by employers and designed to achieve transformation in skills: the fusion of creative and STEM skills across the UK.

• Skillset: Creative Intelligence (in collaboration with Creative & Cultural Skills)

  12 Jan 2012

  Through ‘Creative Intelligence’ Skillset (in collaboration with Creative and Cultural Skills) will deliver labour market information, research and evaluation enabling employers across the UK Creative Industries to better plan for, invest in, and measure the impact of skills and talent interventions.

• Skillset: Creative Solutions

  12 Jan 2012

  Through ‘Creative Solutions’, Skillset will design, develop, test and launch a range of products and services specifically aimed at employers and individuals in the creative industries.

• Supporting the move to professional registration and voluntary Licence to Practise for the Automotive sector.

  30 Jun 2011

  This Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) project is to build on the existing work of the Automotive Technician Accreditation scheme and develop a Professional Register which will reinforce the need for continuous professional development (CPD).

• UK Modern Logistics Guild

  30 Jun 2011

  Skills for Logistics is exploring the potential in developing a Modern Logistics Guild.

• UK Talent Retention Project

  30 Jun 2011

  Semta is developing a Talent Retention Solution to retain workers within the Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering sector following the strategic Defence and Security Review.

• Women and Work

  30 Jun 2011

  Lantra are raising the skill levels of women in both technical and business areas such as management and leadership within the land-based and environmental sector.

• Women and Work

  30 Jun 2011

  People 1st are providing entry level training into the passenger transport industry and management development for women working in hospitality, leisure, tourism and travel.

• Women and Work

  30 Jun 2011

  This Semta project will increase integration within the organisation, maximise career progression opportunities and influence good gender equality practice with employers.

• Women and Work

  30 Jun 2011

  Asset Skills is supporting 505 women to improve skills at low and intermediate level. These skills will lead to a rise in women occupying senior and management positions.

• Women and Work

  30 Jun 2011

  Cogent’s project will deliver opportunities for women to provide them with the confidence to move into non traditional roles, and build on existing skills and to take on more responsibility and duties. It will also assist women into leadership and management roles.

• Women and Work

  30 Jun 2011

  CITB-ConstructionSkills is providing employers with access to funding for training courses for women. This will attract more women into the sector and help those already working in construction to progress in their chosen career.