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Regional Employment & Skills Plan South West & Mid Wales
Annex 1 - Action Plan
Recommendation Opportunities & Provision
Key Stakeholders
Key Actions Year 1
8. Work closer with employers to identify economies of scale in terms of sector specific skills gaps to develop appropriate provision to meet these needs.
• RLSP
• WBL Providers
• NTfW
• FE & HE Providers
• Industry
• Work with industry and providers to ensure that those areas of provision identified are addressed.
• Work with industry and providers to ensure that those areas of provision identified are addressed.
• Develop engagement methods
and primary intelligence gathering methods which support in the development of a plan which meets the needs of employers, providers and learners.
9. The RLSP will facilitate discussions between relevant partners and employers to ensure that
a representative industry base feed into the development of frameworks
• RLSP
• WBL Providers
• NTfW
• FE&HE
• Engage with Qualifications Wales and awarding bodies and NTfW to identify the challenges in framework development.
• Develop a process for influencing frameworks based on the research gathered and reviewed in year 1.
• Apply the process to other sectors in need of framework review based on lessons learned from the pilot intervention.
Representatives • Qualifications
• Further analyse the primary intelligence gathered via surveys and cluster groups to identify areas of cross-over and specific ‘niche’ provision which could meet their needs.
• Further analyse the primary intelligence gathered via surveys and cluster groups to identify areas of cross-over and specific ‘niche’ provision which could meet their needs.
• Continue to identify economies of scale through more in depth analysis of intelligence gathered.
Wales
• Awarding Bodies
• Welsh Government
• Support providers to further promote the funding available to support employers with training.
• Support providers to further promote the funding available to support employers with training.
Providers • Industry
• Identify which frameworks are of greatest concern to employers. • Assess models of best practice
• Select a ‘pilot’ sector in which frameworks need to be addressed.
Representatives • Qualifications
• Review the success of this pilot intervention.
Wales
• AwardingBodies
• Welsh
for employer engagement in Apprenticeships across the UK.
Government
• Ensure that Qualifications Wales are represented on the RLSP Board and to work closely with them to understand how qualifications need to change and to develop new qualifications.
Year 2
Year 3