North West Skills Award

The Skills Award framework supports authorities in delivering their commitments to building and sustaining effective workforce development. The framework includes all areas of skills improvement particularly in relation to ensuring effective approaches to addressing Skills for Life needs amongst employees. The award recognises achievements through taking a strategic approach to workforce development and to advancing the skills of the whole workforce.

For the first time this brings skills for life activity alongside the full range of an authority's skills development work in one review process.
The Skills Award framework sets out a clear timetable for producing an action plan (within 9 months) and establishing a sustainable approach to implementation across the whole organisation (within a further 9 months). The action plan shows how an authority will:

• Encourage and support its employees to gain the skills and qualifications that will meet the needs of the business and will support their future employability
• Support its employees to acquire literacy and numeracy skills and work towards their first full Level 2 qualification
• Raise the skills and competencies of its employees to improve organisational performance
• Achieve measurable impact

 Contact the Knowledge & Network team, 0161 214 7121.