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SKILLS AND APPRENTICESHIPS
LEARNING TO NAVIGATE A CHANGING LANDSCAPE
We brought businesses and providers together at Burnley manufacturer Veka to discuss how the training and skills landscape is expected to change with a new administration in Westminster
Lancashire employers have been looking with increasing interest at the changes the government is looking to implement in the skills space.
These include the Apprenticeship Levy becoming a Skills and Growth Levy with employers given the opportunity to spend their pot on more flexible types of training.
Skills England has been created to bring together what the government has described as the “fractured” skills landscape and to create a “shared national ambition to boost the nation’s skills.”
The new organisation will bring together central and local government, businesses, training providers and trade unions as it looks to meet the skills needs of the next decade across all regions of the country.
It will also provide a “strategic oversight” of the post-16 skills system which will be aligned to the government’s Industrial Strategy.
Neil Burrows, Burnley College
It’s an exciting time. If we go back to 2017 when the introduction of the apprenticeship reforms came in and the levy system came in, there was excitement then.
The levy system was geared around letting businesses recruit apprentices and it raised numbers across the UK. A lot of people were spending that levy, because they had a pot, to increase their apprenticeship numbers. So, numbers went up. Apprenticeships are amazing and work, we know that.
Companies such as Veka are future proofing their business by taking apprentices on.
The introduction of a new body called Skills
England is going to have real impact. Looking at the skills and growth levy, changing the levy to a skills position will really support things.
Taking away the need for maths and English when it comes to upskilling adults through apprenticeships will also be a real positive for businesses. We now need to know what is the bigger picture and what the strategy is going forward for innovation and skills.
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