How Can Train to Gain help you?
As an employer, would you find it useful to have training specialist come into your company to assess and advise you on the development needs of your staff? And about financial support to pay for the training?
Train to Gain is a free service set up to help businesses succeed. Funded by the Learning and Skills Council (LSC), Train to Gain is designed to help UK businesses improve competitiveness and profitability through training.
The benefits of this service are:
- It's free!
- It enables employers to get the right training solution and any financial support that is available.
- It ensures that training is delivered in a way that suits the employers' needs.
- It provides tangible benefits and intangible emotional benefits to employers and employees alike.
- Self-employed and volunteers can now benefit from Train to Gain advice and funding.
- Train to Gain's new Corporate team offer a dedicated service to large companies; while the LSC's National Employer Service provides account management to companies with over 5,000 employees.
- By working with Jobcentre Plus, through their Local Employment Partnerships, Train to Gain can provide a free training plan for new recruits and funding to develop literacy and numeracy skills; with opportunities for free work trials.
- Employers have "hassle free" Skills Brokers support in working out their training needs.
From this visit the brokers can create a Training Needs Analysis and identify training provision that can solve skills gaps and shortages.
1.3 million people in England lack the appropriate skills for their jobs. Skills gaps are estimated to cost businesses £10 billion a year in lost revenue; that's roughly equivalent to £165,000 for a business with 50 employees.
Skills shortages threaten productivity, reduce competitiveness and affect employees' motivation. It is vital for the future of the Creative Media industries that employers take advantage of this initiative. Train to Gain helps businesses to take care of staff development so that they can remain competitive.
Train to Gain was mentioned throughout the Leitch report. The initiative formed part of the report's main recommendations to route all public funding for adult vocational skills through Train to Gain and Learner Accounts by 2010 (apart from community learning). The report endorses the work of Sector Skills Councils and the industry-led approach to tackling skills and training issues.
To read the Leitch report in full please follow this link Prosperity for all in the global economy - world class skills.