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Regional Employment & Skills Plan South West & Mid Wales
Recommendations
Conclusion
Recommendation
Next Steps
Key Stakeholders
Reference
Learning and Career Choices
9. Many sectors suffer from poor perceptions of employment types, job roles and pay. Employers feel that this is to the detriment of attracting and retaining new talent to the sectors.
Raise perceptions of sectors where there are identified recruitment issues caused by poor perceptions of employment in the industry.
• Further identify via the cluster groups industries which have poor perceptions relating to employment.
Industry Representatives, Schools, FE, HE and WBL Providers, Careers Wales, DWP
Section 3 – Sector Profiles
Opportunities and Provision
10. Employers highlighted within the cluster groups that they would like Apprenticeships to better reflect their needs.
Improve employer engagement
in the development of Apprenticeship frameworks, including for higher and degree level programmes through greater direct employer input and flexibility.
• Engage with Qualifications Wales and awarding bodies to identify the challenges in framework development.
FE, HE and WBL Providers, WG, Industry Representatives, Qualifications Wales, Awarding Bodies
Section 3 – Sector Profiles
• Develop work experience opportunities within those sectors to promote employment. Identify opportunities to engage with schools and providers to further the understanding of poorly perceived sectors.
• Identify which frameworks are of greatest concern to employers to address.
• Assess models of best practice for employer engagement in Apprenticeships across the UK.
• Reviewtimeallocationforbasicskillswithin vocational qualifications to ensure that learners spend more time developing subject related skills.