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Learning & Skills

“In the 21st century, our natural resource is our people – and their potential is untapped and vast. Skills will unlock that potential.” - Leitch Review, December 2006

The development of learning and skills is fundamental to the economic and social well-being of the UK and Europe. Building policies and infrastructures that can support the level of development required is now a major priority.
Across Europe, governments are seeking to build systems that can meet the needs of businesses and individuals in a variety of ways. These include: developing a better understanding of education and training; reforming the accreditation and qualification systems to encourage flexibility in the labour market; extending the definition of learning to encompass informal learning; and developing robust planning and quality assurance systems.

ECOTEC can help you:

  • Find and implement practical solutions;
  • Gather a clear picture of supply and demand in learning markets and help to identify business skills needs;
  • Evaluate education and training programmes, and recommend how they can be developed to meet your objectives;
  • Develop sustainable policies that meet the needs of the economy and of diverse communities;
  • Determine where your policy should head in the future and assess the quality of provision, provider capacity and capability development.

Service Portfolio: Delivering HR and Learning for the Youth Justice Board

The Development Support Team at ECOTEC is responsible for the implementation of both the HR and Learning strategy on behalf of the Youth Justice Board (YJB). This work involves the development of local and regional partnerships to support strategic and operational planning, training needs analysis of staff working within custody and community contexts as well as the development of policies, procedures and evaluation systems to monitor the work. 

 

In the first three years the primary focus was to help 80% of youth justice workers gain the Professional Certificate in Effective Practice (or equivalent under the National Qualifications Framework) by March 2006.

 

In addition to the two key aims (improve recruitment and retention and supporting the implementation of the YJB's effective practice strategy) as well as continuing to support the Corporate and Business Plan 2004/05 – 2006/07, the strategy also takes account of:

 

  • Progression for those staff who have undertaken Effective Practice Quality Assurance (EPQA).
  • Ensuring that new entrants to the workforce and others access the Gateway and other learning programmes.
  • Providing opportunities for Operational Managers to undertake management development training so they can link Performance Management and effective practice through use of the Staff Appraisal Framework and EPQA.
  • Opening up opportunities for existing and potential volunteers in youth justice.
  • Progression for those staff who have undertaken the Professional Certificate.
  • Gaining greater ownership of the learning programmes by Youth Offending Teams (YOTs).
  • Ensuring effective links with the emerging integrated children’s services.

paul.martin@ecotec.com
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