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Annex 1 – Action Plan
Regional Employment & Skills Plan South West & Mid Wales
Annex 1 - Action Plan
Recommendation
Key Stakeholders
Key Actions
1. Enhance partnership working to address the issues around the employability of
individuals, especially those experiencing
• RLSP • RLSP
• Utilise the RLSP Employability Group to facilitate a co-ordinated and transparent approach to ensure that interventions planned and delivered meet the needs of the region both in terms of skills and addressing barriers.
• Review those benchmarks identified in year 1. Feedback to relevant parties through progress reports.
• Review those benchmarks identified in year 1. Feedback to relevant parties through progress reports.
additional barriers to learn- ing and employment.
Wales • Welsh
• Identify benchmarks that can be measured against to review progress.
2. Increase engagement with schools to ensure that learners are aware
of the skills employers desire ensuring that employability and soft skills are highlighted as being as being as
pertinent as technical or practical skills.
• RLSP
• Careers Wales • 14-19
• Continue to increase engagement with secondary schools across the region.
• Continue to increase engagement with secondary schools across the region.
• Continue to increase engagement with secondary schools across the region.
Employability
Group
• SBRET
• Adult Learning
• Continue and build on activity developed in year 1 and review with partners further work or activities that need to be done.
• Continue and build on activity developed in year 1 and 2 and review with partners further work or activities that need to be done.
Government • Department
• Plan to gather primary intelligence through the Regional Employment and Skills Plan from employers to identify whether employability remains to be such a prolific issue.
for Work and
• Begin promoting best practice to employers focussing on supporting recruitment, employee retention, workplace health and wellbeing and supporting individuals to stay in work
Pensions (DWP) • Careers Wales
• Third Sector.
• Private sector.
Co-ordinators for South West & Mid Wales
• Develop innovative resources on basic skills and employability and soft skills for learners which can be disseminated to them in careers fairs and school visits.
• Develop innovative resources on basic skills and employability and soft skills for learners which can be disseminated to them in careers fairs and school visits.
• Develop innovative resources on basic skills and employability and soft skills for learners which can be disseminated to them in careers fairs and school visits.
• DWP • Local
Authorities • ERW
• Increase the prevalence of industry
in schools through sessions delivered at careers fairs in conjunction with the ‘Have a Go’ equipment.
• Increase the prevalence of industry in schools through sessions delivered at careers fairs in conjunction with the ‘Have a Go’ equipment.
• Increase the prevalence of industry in schools through sessions delivered at careers fairs in conjunction with the ‘Have a Go’ equipment.
• Work closely with Careers Wales to promote the ‘Education Business Exchange’ to employers and highlight its importance as a gateway to engaging with schools.
• Work closely with Careers Wales to promote the ‘Education Business Exchange’ to employers and highlight its importance as a gateway to engaging with schools.
• Work closely with Careers Wales to promote the ‘Education Business Exchange’ to employers and highlight its importance as a gateway to engaging with schools.