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Regional Employment & Skills Plan South West & Mid Wales
Annex 1 - Action Plan
Recommendation
Key Stakeholders
Key Actions
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.