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📣 Survey help needed! If you are a business leader or HR professional, your valuable input is needed! Earlier this year, the Don Wood Foundation, Questa Education Foundation, and TPMA launched the "Achieving Postsecondary Attainment" initiative to advance postsecondary education awareness, access, enrollment, and completion among twelve counties in Northeast Indiana. As part of the initiative, they launched an important survey to gain a better understanding of tuition assistance programs, scholarships for employees and their dependents, and their effectiveness in terms of utilization, employee retention, and more. #survey #hr #businessleaders

Learning & Development was one of the key topics discussed at Choice Housing Ireland Ltd colleague conference. Want to know more about how Chartered Institute of Housing Chartered Institute of Housing - Northern Ireland can help you and your teams become more confident in their roles? Get in touch!

My journey as an Enterprise Adviser continues... Last Thursday I had the pleasure of joining the Hampshire Hub Cluster meeting in Basingstoke. This session brought together schools’ and colleges’ careers leads, governors, enterprise advisers and Hampshire County Council’s Enterprise and Growth Team for updates, networking and collaboration. It was very clear that these professionals and volunteers were totally dedicated to one thing: providing the best possible career information and opportunities for their students. Key topics included the Gatsby Benchmarks, Labour Market Intelligence, Local Skills Improvement Plans and work experience opportunities. All familiar stuff for those of you involved in CIMSPA’s Professional Development Committees or the wider discussions around workforce. I was there for two reasons. First, to understand what schools and colleges really need from employers and sector representatives.  It seems that schools and colleges are still struggling to engage with local employers. Everyone Active - SLM Places Leisure GLL Serco SCL Education Group and others – expect to hear from me! Second, I have sat in too many meetings discussing the skills shortage in the sport and physical activity sector where everyone looks at everyone else while wringing their hands. It's now time to do something about it. As a sector we should be doing much more careers work with schools and colleges. I’d like to see at least 100 enterprise advisors from the sport and physical activity sector by the end of 2025. Who wants to join me? Special thanks to Megan Low for organising and chairing such a successful Hub Cluster meeting.  The Careers & Enterprise Company

Developing and delivering the right skills to enable the future growth of East London. Worth a read. Can you help Local London to make this happen?

Basic number skills and confidence provide a gateway to financial inclusion, wellbeing and employment prospects. Without number confidence and skills, people are locked out of many life opportunities. Please reflect on this and encourage your friends, family, colleagues and customers to consider improving their number skills with one of our Multiply courses. You can follow me to get regular updates on Multiply courses in Cheshire East. #multiply #skillsforlife #communitylearning

👉🏼 Join us for the Centre for Employability Excellence’s SECOND Virtual Seminar – Employability Advice: Navigate or Integrate? Employability practitioners support people whose needs cross several services such as housing, social services, health, education, and others but co-ordination is not an easy challenge: policy goals, service priorities, organisation, eligibility criteria, budgets and responsibilities are often inconsistent. Should we focus on case-management, the navigation of complex systems and services? Or should we work harder to integrate at policy and service level. 👉🏼 Taking place online at 9.00am next Wednesday 31 January, secure your place at this event by registering for your free ticket here 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 https://lnkd.in/gdTJXcis @IEPInfo #CFEE #EmployabilityAdvice #Employability #NavigateOrIntegrate #Employability #EmployabilitySkills #IEP #Professional #Fellowship #Upskilling #Retraining #AlwaysLearning #Networking #Learning #Institute

👉🏼 Join us for the Centre for Employability Excellence’s SECOND Virtual Seminar – Employability Advice: Navigate or Integrate? Employability practitioners support people whose needs cross several services such as housing, social services, health, education, and others but co-ordination is not an easy challenge: policy goals, service priorities, organisation, eligibility criteria, budgets and responsibilities are often inconsistent. Should we focus on case-management, the navigation of complex systems and services? Or should we work harder to integrate at policy and service level. 👉🏼 Taking place online at 9.00am next Wednesday 31 January, secure your place at this event by registering for your free ticket here 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 https://lnkd.in/gdTJXcis @IEPInfo #CFEE #EmployabilityAdvice #Employability #NavigateOrIntegrate #Employability #EmployabilitySkills #IEP #Professional #Fellowship #Upskilling #Retraining #AlwaysLearning #Networking #Learning #Institute

We are delighted to launch ‘Mind the Skills Gap’ – An employer-led plan for improving skills and training in our sub-region. Centred on employers’ needs, ‘Mind the Skills Gap’ highlights the specific skills needs and priorities of employers in Barking and Dagenham, Bexley, Bromley, Enfield, Greenwich, Havering, Newham, Redbridge and Waltham Forest, along with actionable proposals for addressing them. Cllr Baroness O’Neill of Bexley OBE, Chairman of Local London and Leader of London Borough of Bexley said “This employer-led approach has identified real-life skills needs and the key changes required to make local training provision responsive to market needs. Of course, this plan will not solve every issue within the skills system, which is why, at this stage, we are focussed upon specific priority sectors and cross-cutting themes. But this is more than just a report, it is the beginning of the process, a process that will evolve in response to an evolving skills market. Mind the Skills Gap – the Local Skills Improvement Plan for our sub-region – is a fantastic opportunity to align training to meet the needs and priorities of employers in our nine member boroughs, to help more employers to fill their skills gaps and more Londoners into work and support growth in our sub-region.” #LSIP #skillsforthefuture #skillsplanning #skillsgap https://buff.ly/468L7kk

Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the Education Secretary have announced the launch of Skills England, a new public training body to bring together what's been described as a "fractured skills landscape" and create "a shared national ambition to boost the nation's skills." Starmer said "Our skills system is in a mess, which is why we are transforming our approach to meet skills needs over the coming decades”. Key Highlights: 🔹 Flexible Training Funds: The new Growth and Skills Levy allows businesses more control over training investments. 🔹 Collaboration: Bringing together government, businesses, training providers, and unions to address skills needs across all regions. 🔹 Local Workforce Development: Focusing on essential sectors like construction and healthcare to drive sustainable growth. 🔹 Reduced Reliance on Overseas Workers: Working with the Migration Advisory Committee to foster home-grown talent. 🔹 Long-Term Strategy: Rolling out over the next 9-12 months to ensure a responsive, collaborative system. ❓Have you identified the skills your people will need to develop over the next few years? Invest in the growth and development of your team with DevelopME – the all-in-one personal learning and development platform. Free Trial available. 👉https://lnkd.in/eVYTU2Kj If you need support and advice, give the Breathing Space HR team a call. ☎ 0113 426 7735 hello@breathingspacehr.co.uk #BSHR #HRConsultancy #SkillsEngland #WorkforceDevelopment #EconomicGrowth #FutureSkills #Yorkshire

Blueprint for lifelong learning and employment opportunity: Stephen Evans reveals Learning and Work Institute’s blueprint for change: five actions to improve growth and opportunity by widening access to lifelong learning and good… Blueprint for lifelong learning and employment opportunity was published on FE News by Learning and Work Institute Read more here: