1. Each of the following key delivery agencies and stakeholders have a role, so far as is appropriate to their function, to promote and support the delivery of better workplace practices to enable effective skills utilisation.
2. Their specific roles and responsibilities in encouraging employer engagement in skills utilisation are:
Organisation | Roles and responsibilities in encouraging employer engagement in effective skills utlisation |
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Scottish Government | - provides strategic leadership and direction;
- facilitates change at a national level; and
- funds devolved public services.
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Skills Development Scotland | - improving how skills are gained by creating connectivity between learning and jobs, brokering new relationships and better sector-specific information; and
- building capability in employers to instigate workplace change through awareness raising, improving articulation of business demand, and effective upskilling and re-skilling.
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Scottish Enterprise | enables growing companies and priority and growth industries to develop and implement ambitious growth strategies through our enterprise, innovation and investment services, in particular : - supports companies to develop new markets (including international), new products and new services ;
- enables growth through Business Improvement services such as LEAN management and SMAS;
- enables companies to become more innovative through services such as winning through Innovation and R and D grants;
- enables more effective linking between business growth strategies and people strategies to enhance productivity through Organisational Development activities.
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Highlands and Islands Enterprise | - develops Learningworks to be a world-class, region wide interactive business development portal providing information, advice and networking opportunities;
- through close working with Sectoral Teams, Account Managers and other Key Partners, identifies the key skill requirements for high growth businesses and sources or develops appropriate initiatives and innovative ways to meet those needs;
- develops collaborative tools to collate information on skills needs and works with suppliers to develop appropriate solutions; and
- wherever possible, aims to use technology to provide access to learning events to the widest possible audience across the Highlands and Islands.
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Business Gateway | - offers assistance and advice to people starting up or growing businesses in Scotland; and
- provides access to publicly funded services.
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Scotland's colleges | " encourage employer demand for skills and help employers better utilise the skills available to them, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises" 12. |
Scotland's higher education institutions | " have a crucial part to play not just in responding to the need for Scotland's economy to have a sufficient stock of highly skilled graduates but also the increasingly important agenda of improving the utilisation of skills in the workplace" 13. |
Scottish Funding Council | - develops the capacity of colleges and universities to engage in knowledge transfer; and
- develops initiatives to strengthen the knowledge exchange activities of colleges and universities and links with business.
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Business representative organisations | - provide information, advice and guidance to businesses to improve their productivity and competitiveness.
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The Alliance of Sector Skills Councils in Scotland | - supports Sector Skills Councils to engage with the skills utilisation agenda; and
- shares information and progress.
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Sector Skills Councils | - as employer led and Government licensed organisations, improve the skills of the UK workforce to boost productivity and competitiveness; and
- work with business, public and professional bodies and learning providers to ensure the training employers need is available to meet their current and future skills requirements.
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NHS Education for Scotland ( NES) | - provides resources and support to develop new roles capable of ensuring delivery of effective health care in new and emerging areas;
- with a focus on existing staff, supports the extension of existing roles to meet new and emerging requirements; and
within the administrative, clerical and support staff group, establishes pathways and educational resources to support career development in line with the service needs. |
Scottish Trades Union Congress | influences Government and other representative organisations in the interests of affiliated unions and trades union councils |
Investors in People Scotland | - provides a national benchmark of good practice (The Standard), focusing on how an organisations approach to leading, managing and developing people contributes to the achievement of its vision, purpose and goals.
- encourages a comprehensive range of higher level practices which extend and challenge organisations to improve further.
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Professional/awarding bodies | - provide advice at a variety of levels; and
- award and certify leadership and management competence.
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Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations | works with Government, skills agencies and local authorities to promote clear and joined up messages about skills, including skills utilisation, to the third sector. |