Skills for Business Growth

This is chaired by Paul Carter, Leader of KCC, the Skills for Business Growth group is an employer-led partnership consisting of employers, business intermediaries, Jobcentre Plus, and providers, which advises key agencies and authorities on employer training needs and works towards the integration of employment and skills support.

Above all else, the functions of this group should seek to support the operation of an effective and sustainable market for skills, ensuring Kent and Medway have the right skills for today and in the future.

The group is tasked with developing an employer led skills base for the Kent economy. Its key areas of activity are:

Providing effective strategic leadership at the local level on economic and employment growth, and skills development.
Enabling and nudging employers, individuals and learning providers to work more effectively together to improve business performance and employment growth through the effective enhancement and deployment of skills.

KEB is very keen to encourage support for the Talent Retention Solution (TRS)

Are you an advanced engineering or manufacturing employer? If so register on the system via the following link www.talentretention.biz

TRS is designed to help engineers facing redundancy link up to companies who are looking for engineering skills and is free to use for individuals and for companies of all sizes. It is a joint Government and Industry UK wide initiative, which has the support of key employers from organizations such as BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce, EADS, Airbus, NISSAN, EDF, Siemens and a growing number of businesses of all sizes from across advanced engineering and manufacturing who continue to register each day. The programme will help those losing their jobs to find employers looking to recruit and will play an important role in supporting the redeployment of BAE Systems and MOD staff. It is a direct link between people and employers, with no intermediaries. Employers will have free access to a growing UK wide advanced engineering and manufacturing talent pool and to place job vacancies too. Read more ..

SusCon

Leading the way in sustainable construction training. www.suscon.org.uk

SusCon is a sustainable construction training and research centre that has been built at The Bridge in Dartford. Pioneering a new approach to sustainable construction learning that is designed to help people meet the challenges of a greener future, SusCon offers accredited courses for those already working in the construction industry as well as for those who are seeking new opportunities. The new low carbon economy is set to create thousands of new jobs and career opportunities. If you would like to learn new green construction skills or upgrade your existing knowledge, take a look at these courses. SusCon is unique in that it teachs all aspects of the sustainable built environment and has developed a curriculum in close consultation with the industry. Read more ...