Employer Engagement

Employer Engagement - Themes

• Securing employer sign ups to the Government Skills Pledge
• Increasing the volume of workplace learning agreements
• Strengthening existing learning agreements
• Developing approaches to support Collective Learning Funds
• Working with employers to ensure individuals get the maximum benefit from Train to Gain
• Develop collective approaches to the proposed right to request time off to train
• Develop models for securing employer contribution to ESOL

Employer Engagement - Supporting Information

Improving employer engagement with learning and skills is a shared Government and union priority and unions have a key contribution to make. Through their ULF work have made at least 1,500 learning agreements with employers and many include learning committees as part of those agreements.

Developments announced in the Leitch Report such as the Skills Pledge and Collective Learning Funds will be good mechanisms for strengthening existing agreements and persuading more employers to make new ones. Train to Gain will have increasing levels of Learning and Skills Council funding and it will be crucial to the unions' work with brokers and providers to ensure that Train to Gain provides effective learning for union learners.