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SECTORS - RATIONALE FOR INVOLVING SSCS WITHIN TRAIN TO GAIN
• SSCs represent industry and regularly engage with employers
• SSCs understand:
– Sectors’ skills needs– The positive impact skills have on business performance
• All of this is augmented in the Sector Skills Agreement process
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SKILLS FOR BUSINESS NETWORK
• Skills for Business Network (SfBN) is the name given to all 25 SSCs operating together with the Sector Skills Development Agency (SSDA)
• SfBN aims to boost productivity and profitability of the UK
• Done through identifying and tackling skills gaps and shortages in each sector.
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KEY GOALS
SSCs have 4 key goals:
• Reduce skills gaps and shortages
• Improve productivity, business and public service performance
• Increase opportunities to boost the skills and productivity of everyone in the sector’s workforce
• Improve learning supply including apprenticeships, higher education and National Occupational Standards
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WORKING WITH BROKERS
• SSCs will be able to provide leads to brokers
• Knowledge of how to access employers in sector
• SSC may be able to offer additional support to broker beyond the brokerage experience
• LSC currently working on a referral protocol for SSCs and brokers
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SSC SUPPORT
Three Tier Offer of support for employers and brokers:
• Tier 1 support will be available from all SSCs and will include information relating to labour market intelligence
• Tier 2 support will be available free of charge as it will already have been funded from the public purse (these services may not be offered by all SSCs)
• Tier 3 support will be offered at a cost but may be beneficial to brokers and will vary from SSC to SSC. May include improvement tools and support, training, bespoke helplines
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SECTOR SKILLS AGREEMENT (SSA)
• Sector Skills Agreements essentially map out what skills employers need their workforce to have
• Also establish the process by which these skills can be supplied by key partners
• Facilitated by SSCs but signed up to by everyone who supplies, funds and plans education and training
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