Improving the skills of your people

TRAIN TO GAIN

• Provides impartial, independent advice on training to businesses across England

• Helps businesses improve productivity and competitiveness by ensuring employees have the right skills to do the best job

• Gives access to a Skills Broker who will help you consider what skills your business has now, and what you will need in the future

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SKILLS BROKERS

• Free service to all businesses

• Independent and impartial

• Help you to identify skills gaps in your business

• Will recommend training solutions to best meet your needs

• Will find the right training provider and monitor progress

• Will help identify any available funding

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OUR PORTFOLIO OF SUPPORT

•Leadership & Management Grant

•NVQs

•NVQ entitlement

•Skills for Life

•Contribution to wage

•Apprenticeships

•Bite size qualifications (new for SME’s)

•The Skills Pledge

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THE LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT GRANT

• A £1000 grant to support Leadership & Management development

• 5 -250 staff

• One grant per organisation (usually most senior people)

• £500 for the CEO / MD / Owner Manager

• A further £500 (match funded) for senior management team

• Cannot be claimed retrospectively

• Will support training / coaching & mentoring /purchase of materials (CDs / books etc)

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An introduction to NATIONAL VOCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS (NVQs)

• Work-related, competence-based qualifications

• Reflect the skills and knowledge needed to do a job effectively, and show

that a candidate is competent in the area of work

• Based on national occupational standards

• NVQ training/ assessment is provided by a network of quality assured

providers

• Work-based mentoring & assessment or day release

• Funding available subject to eligibility

• Levels 1-5 Level 1 – Foundation SkillsLevel 2 – Operative or Semi SkilledLevel 3 – Technician, Craft, Skilled and SupervisoryLevel 4 – Technical and Junior ManagementLevel 5 – Senior Management

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NVQ ENTITLEMENT

• Fully funded training/ learning to anyone 19 or over who does not already have an NVQ 2 (Operative or Semi Skilled) or equivalent (5 GCSE / O Levels Grades A to C, or 2 AS Levels or 1 or more A levels)

If an eligible person is deemed suitable for NVQ 3 (Technician,

Craft, Skilled and Supervisory) they will be supported to achieve this

• For those that have already achieved a level 2 qualification there may be support to go on to achieve a further level 2. (Subsidies may also be available to go on to do an NVQ level 3 for these people)

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SKILLS FOR LIFE

• Numeracy

• Literacy

Recent studies show that up to 1 in 4 adults lack functional numeracy and literacy skills (equivalent to being able to look up a plumber in the

phone book)

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CONTRIBUTION TO WAGE

• For private sector employers with less than 50 full time employees, or equivalent

• Available when staff are accessing NVQ entitlement and/or Skills for Life

• Can claim £5 per hour or the actual hourly rate for employees released for direct training with a training provider

• You can claim up to a max of 70 hours in total

• Contribution paid upon achievement of approved qualification

Note: Not available for individuals funded to achieve a 2nd NVQ Level 2

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APPRENTICESHIPS

• Apprenticeships equip young people with the skills and knowledge to do the job.

• The majority of Apprenticeships are fully funded for 16-18 year olds and also available for those 19+ with a shared investment.

• Over 200 Apprenticeships available across more than 80 industry sectors

– Apprenticeships:• Working towards a NVQ 2, Key Skills and in most cases a technical

certificate

– Advanced Apprenticeships:• Working towards NVQ Level 3, Key Skills and a technical certificate

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NEW for SME’s UNIT QUALIFICATIONS• Unit qualifications at Level 2,3 and 4 in ten business critical

areas

• Units qualifications:

o Business improvement techniqueso Business systems/processeso Team-working/communicationso Finance and credito Risk managemento Marketing and saleso Customer serviceo New product designo Cash flow and profit managemento IT user /IT support

Level 2: Fully funded

Level 3/4: Shared investment

• For businesses employing up to 250 staff– Private sector / Private Schools / Third sector / Self employed (with or without

employees) / Franchises / Sole traders

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Q&A

Thank you…….

Skills South East

delivering Train to Gain

0845 751 2288