The Government have released their statement of action for government and employers, the statement sets out how government and business will work together to improve the apprenticeship and technical education system.
The government, employers and education providers have embarked on an ambitious series of reforms to the technical education system, including apprenticeships.
The skills partner statement of action sets out what government and employers will achieve together working in partnership – alongside and in support of the education sector – to deliver that ambition.
Skills partner statement of action
We commit to working together to create a strong skills programme that gives every individual the opportunity to succeed – whatever their background – and employers the skills they need to prosper.
Only by working together in a genuine partnership can we:
- boost social mobility and reduce inequality
- deliver the skilled workforce the nation needs
- harness the benefits of ever-changing technology
The Department for Education commits to:
- collaborating with employers on its strategy and plans
- listening to employers
- developing its policies and programmes where they can be improved or enhanced to deliver wider objectives
In turn, employers commit to work as partners with government and education and training providers to design and deliver the reform programme. Each employer’s contribution will reflect their particular strengths and experience.
DfE and businesses/employers will work together to:
- develop an apprenticeship system which provides hands on experience and a route to skilled employment for people of all ages and backgrounds
- maximise the opportunities of the apprenticeship reforms and evolve the system in light of experience of reforms
- create more employer encounters for young people – for example, by working with The Careers and Enterprise Company
- support the National Careers Service to ensure that people have access to the best possible information and advice throughout their lifetime
- develop and deliver the new technical routes and ‘T levels’
- offer high quality work placements for students studying technical education
- support the new National Colleges and Institutes of Technology, which will provide the higher level skills that employers and the country needs
- support the development of a further education teaching profession whose members are equipped with relevant and up to date industry experience, and establish better collaboration between further education providers and employers
- ensure everyone is able to develop their skills, and learn new skills, throughout their working life
- widen participation and social mobility – to ensure that more people from a diverse range of backgrounds and from all parts of the country have access to the benefits of technical education and other routes into work
Sign up to the skills partner statement of action
To discuss what becoming a skills partner entails and the benefits it can bring to your organisation, and to commit your organisation to the statement of action, please email skills.summit@education.gov.uk.
Next steps:
- Sign up and email skills.summit@education.gov.uk
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