The UK Commission has recently consulted on the UK's publicly funded employment, skills and training services, as part of our work on the Simplification of Employment and Skills in the UK.
Here on commissionconsultation.com you’ll find details of what happened during the consultation process so far including access to the televised debate, interviews with key stakeholders and most importantly resulting views and ideas. The deadline was 18 August 2009: however, you can still email any additional comments or ideas to:
Read an initial summary of the findings here.
Click here to have your views added to this website
Roger Pearson, Development Manager, Newburgh Engineering Co Ltd
Mohammed Ali, Chief Executive, QED
Professor Sir Philip Cohen, Director of Research, University of Dundee
Professor Sir Philip Cohen, Director of Research, Univeristy of Dundee
Julia Herdman, Finance and Programme Manager, ebns Ltd
Read all comments and contribute to the debate.
Watching isn’t enough I want to stimulate a public debate about these issues
Chris Humphries
Chief Executive of the UK Commission for
Employment and Skills
Clear level of consensus from the beginning to the end that what we don’t have is a system that is working well
Jon Trigg
UK Strategy Director - A4e
Part of the problem in this area is that we’ve had too much tinkering
Professor John Philpott
Chief Economist - CIPD
It’s whether our community thinks we’re making a difference to the workforce, community well being and social cohesion
Graham Moore
157 Group
More details are available in the official letter from Sir Mike Rake, which can be viewed here.
Email any comments or ideas to: simplification@ukces.org.uk
Too many organisations doing very similar things
Ken Sargison
Director, Education and Skills, Deloitte
“For most employers they don’t understand it, they don’t know who to speak to and they don’t know how to find out about where the skills providers are”
Dr Penny Tamkin
Programme Director of Management and Leadership Research, The Work Foundation
