Food groups and current activity

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Food groups and current activity

• David Tournay
• Operational Manager
• 6th October 2005

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Objectives

• Introduce you to who we are and what we do
• Describe activities of other food groups
• Introduce Green Card
• Opportunity for me to learn from you

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The challenge for SSCs

• Reduce skills gaps and shortages and increase the
  speed of development and transition by sectors 
• Develop specific actions that lead to improved
  productivity, business and public services
  performance 
• Take action leading to the development of the
  whole sectors workforce  
• Influence action that leads to improvement in
  learning supply

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How we do this

• Working with employers
• Central focus for labour market intelligence for
  the food and drink manufacturing industry 
• We identify skills shortages and gaps and
  establish nationwide and sector specific
  programmes to fill them
• Development of relevant occupational standards to
  ensure qualifications are measured and reflect
  current and future skills needs
• Monitoring and assisting training supply
• Promote the whole of the industry to prospective
  employees of all ages as the career of choice

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Our role as a bridge
Government agencies Regional Development
Agencies Learning and Skills Councils Business
Links Qualifications and Curriculum
Authority DfES DEFRA
Employers Regional food groups Primary and
secondary processors SME and Micro
businesses Large and multi-national
organisations Trade and professional bodies
Providers Private training providers FE Colleges
COVEs Universities
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Hot topics

• 14-19 and Skills White papers
• Apprenticeship frameworks
• Level 4 Occupational standards
• Foundation degree frameworks
• National skills passport
• Sector Skills Agreement
• Development of Skills Academy

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But.

• Cannot influence any of these by ourselves.
• If you do not give us input, who will?
• My role to be a link to you so that your views
  are well represented

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Food groups

• Food East
• Food Manufacturing Partnership
• Kings Lynn Food Partnership
• Food and Drink Forum

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Food East

• Structure
• Two part time staff, off-shoot of consultancy
  company
• Funding
• Emerged out of Fenland regional project.
• Now independent and self financing
• Support
• Through website and bi-monthly newsletter
• Current activity
• Assistance with environmental challenges
• Conduit for funding for training ESF project

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Food manufacturing partnership

• Structure
• Group of approx 30 HR training managers from
  food manufacturers across Norfolk/Suffolk
• Voluntary chair
• Funding
• Costs absorbed by members
• Support
• Forum for discussion regarding issues. Regular
  speakers, networking
• Current activity
• Annual pay survey across members
• Sharing experience re employing overseas
  nationals

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Kings Lynn Food Partnership

• Structure
• Run by local authority
• Membership from operations managers from local
  food manufacturers
• Funding
• Secretariat paid by local authority.
• Meetings held at employer premises
• Support
• Co-ordinating feedback from employer to authority
• Current activity
• Addressing concern about lack of engineers in
  region

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Food and Drink Forum

• Structure
• RDA funded organisation
• Employs 20 staff
• Acts under 4 brands
• Funding
• Through own activity, project funding and RDA
  support
• Support
• Broad cross section of activity

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Activity

• Business support for new and small food
  manufacturing businesses. Includes marketing and
  packaging expertise.
• Marketing network used to promote members food
  outside region and to support exports
• Website and information source for members.
  Links to other organisations
• Networking activity and sourcing of funds for
  project work

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Green Card

• Employer Need
• Confidence in who you are employing
• Minimum standard of skills
• Ability to recognise in-company training
• Ability to track and record progress

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Key features

• Card is specific to individual
• Required to carry a photo for additional security
• Individual records their skills attainment on the
  card as they progress
• Achievement is verified by registered
  individual
• Managed through web-site
• National programme specific to industry
• British Retail Consortium compliant

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UK Food and Drink Skills Passport

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Additional tools

• Verifier can add skills attainment, therefore
  used as Learning Management System
• Use swipe reader to quickly record progress of
  large groups of employees
• Can quick view individual passports to view
  attainment of potential employees
• My Goals function to manage own development

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Costs

• Card costs 10.00 per person per year
• 200 to become a verifier in first year, 100
  thereafter

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Bigger picture

• Working with learning providers to record
  achievements of students
• Working with JobCentre Plus to ensure that people
  being targetted at our industry hold a minimum
  Green Card
• Will act as a tool to record progress as part of
  emerging Skills Academy

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How to get involved

• Please contact
• David Tournay
• Operational Manager
• Tel. [phone]
• Email david.tournay_at_improveltd.co.uk

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• Thank you
• www.improveltd.co.uk