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Required Support to Grow and Develop
Businesses stated that they require support with the following areas;
Training Apprenticeships Planning Procurement
Recruitment Financial Materials
Regulation Succession The below have been identified by the cluster group as priority areas for the region:
• Develop an action plan to improve basic skills including literacy and numeracy and the attitudes and ethics of new recruits required across the sector.
• Develop and implement a strategy to promote careers in engineering at all levels, with specific reference to Apprenticeships at all levels – post GCSE, post A-level and post
Identified Priorities
degree, using role models to illustrate the opportunities within the sector. Include a focus
on females into engineering.
• Use the role models identified above to illustrate the transferability of skills in matching
the labour supply and demand for major projects and how this will prevent duplication and reduce costs.
Regional Employment & Skills Plan South West & Mid Wales Sector Profiles