Transcript Train to Gain - North West Universities Association

Train to Gain
Presented by:
Kirsty Evans
Skills Development Director, Learning and Skills Council
NW
Date:
16th March 2007
What Is The Train to Gain Service?
• Designed to help businesses solve the problems they face when
thinking about identifying training needs and choosing the right
solutions
• Spearheaded by Train to Gain Skills Brokerage Service
– Independent and impartial
– Trained to new national standard for providing skills advice
• Supported by a range of flexible and responsive programmes
designed to meet employers needs
• Design principles reflect the government’s public service
principles: demand led funding; employer choice; competition
• Leitch review:
– expansion (Apps, FE funded employer facing provision)
– Extension (Level 3, level 4)
– To be achieved by 2010
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How Does Train to Gain Work?
Step 1: Identifying the skills a business needs
• Understanding business goals and associated current and future skill
needs
Step 2: Pinpointing the right training
• Recommending types of training, selecting the right provider,
choosing how and when training is delivered, choosing qualifications
Step 3: Find available funding
• Train to Gain funding, other public funding and employer’s own
investment
Step 4: Reviewing progress made
• Ongoing support – evaluating effectiveness
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Skills Brokerage in the NW
• Contract awarded to NWDA for 2006-2008
• 2 core aspects to the service:
• Level 1 - Quick access to information, both telephone and
e-mail; registration of employers; arranging appointments
• Level 2 - Face to face by accredited brokers; diagnose
need; source provision – funded or unfunded
• Targets:
• 3,996 employers 06/07; 6,298 employers 07/08
• Hard to reach target
• Customer Satisfaction
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The Core Funded TtG Provision Offer
• Through Train to Gain the LSC will fully fund delivery in the
workplace of:
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First full level 2 NVQ Qualifications
Skills for Life Qualifications
Full Level 3 NVQ Qualifications – Level 3 Jumpers
80% ‘planned’ – choice of 69 providers, full range of NVQ 2
qualifications
• 20% Regional Response Fund
• Train to Gain also funds a contribution to wage costs for
employers with less than 50 employees
• The Apprenticeship programme – Key skills, an NVQ at level 2 or
3, Technical Certificate
• FE Colleges, funded by the LSC to deliver a full range of
qualifications and other sorts of skills training.
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The wider offer in the North West
• Level 2 ITQ qualifications funded via the Northern Way Initiative
• Level 3 NVQs in the workplace through the Level 3 Trial
• European Social Fund e.g.
o Second Level 2 or 3 qualifications for employees
o Flexible demand led programmes e.g. Skillworks – Merseyside
• Higher level qualifications (level 4 and 5)
o Existing HE provision (inc Foundation Degrees)
o New employer led HE provision (Higher Level Skills Pathfinder)
• Leadership and Management programmes
• Sector Programmes
• Investors in People
• Funding offered via local bodies
• Access to recruitment support
• Access to wider (non-skills) Business Support
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Questions?
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