The Sector Skills Council for the creative and cultural industries Why Sectors Matter The Experience...

The Sector Skills Council for the

creative and cultural industries

Why Sectors Matter The Experience of the UK’s Sector Skills Councils

Tom Bewick, Chief Executive, Creative & Cultural Skills Skills Policy Dialogue, Colombo, Sri Lanka

26th November 2009



Meeting the Sector Skills and Productivity Challenge



Old Industrial Economy Model1850s – 1950s

Raw Materials

Transported Globally

Role of Education

Physical Commodities

Socialisation



New Knowledge Economy Model – 2000+

Tangible and intangible products

Rounded Citizens

Ideas and Knowledge

Why we need sector skills councils

Commercial exploitation

Social Good



“Productivity is the prime determinant of a nation’s long-run standard of living, it is the root cause of national per capita income. The productivity of human resources determines employee wages, the productivity with which capital is employed determines the return it earns for its holders.”

(Michael Porter, Harvard Business Review, March-April 1990)



“We must focus not on the economy as a whole [the spatial], but on specific industries and industry segments.”

(Michael Porter, Harvard Business Review, March-April 1990)



Productivity and employment in OECD countries



11th in the world in productivity levels

10th in employment

14th in terms of income inequality

17th on ‘low-level’ skills

18th on ‘intermediate’ level skills 12th on ‘high-level’ skills



“Unless we act decisively, we will not be in the top eight countries of the world at any skill level.”



Complexity reigns!



AACS: Adult Advancement and Careers Service; AoC: Association of Colleges; ALP: Association of Learning Providers; BCC: British Chambers of Commerce; BERR: Dept of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (Now part of DBIS); CIHE: Council for Industry and HE; DBIS: Department for Business, Innovation and Skills; DCLG: Dept for Communities and local Government; DCSF: Dept for Children, Schools and Families; DIUS: Dept for Innovation, Universities and Skills (Now part of DBIS); DWP: Dept for Work and Pensions; ESB: Employment and Skills Boards; FAB: Federation of Awarding Bodies; FdF: Foundation Degree Forward; FSB: Federation of Small Businesses; GO: Government Offices; HEFCE: HE Funding Council for England; IfL: Institute for Learning; JCP: Jobcentre Plus; KTP: Knowledge Transfer Partnership; LA: Local Authority; LEP: Local Employment Partnership; LLN: Lifelong learning Partnership; LSC: Learning and Skills Council; LSIS: Learning and Skills Improvement Service; LSN: Learning and Skills Network; LSP: Local Strategic Partnership; MAA: Multi Area Agreement; NAS: National Apprenticeship Service; NCEE: National Council for Educational Excellence; NES: National Employer Service; NESTA: National Endowment for Science, Technology and Arts; NIACE: National Institute for Adult Continuing Education; NSA: National Skills Academy; OFQUAL: Office of the Qualifications and Exams Regulator; OFSTED: Office for Standards in Education; OLASS: Offender Learning and Skills Service; QCDA: Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency; RDA: Regional Development Agency; RSP: Regional Skills Partnership; SSC: Sector Skills Council; SFA: Skills Funding Agency; TQS: Training Quality Standard; TSB: Technology Strategy Board; UfI: University for Industry; UKCES: UK Commission for Employment and Skills; YPLA: Young People’s Learning Agency

UK Education and Skills Landscape – Glossary of acronyms



Asset SkillsCogentCreative & Cultural SkillsE-Skills UKEnergy & Utility SkillsFinancial ServicesGo SkillsGovernment SkillsIMIImproveLantraLifelong Learning UKPeople 1st

ProskillsSemtaSkillfast-UKSkills ActiveSkills for Care & DevelopmentSkillsetSkills for HealthSkills for JusticeSkills for LogisticsSkillsmart RetailSummit Skills

How the skills system relates toSector Skills Councils



•Raise employer engagement, demand and investment in skills;

•Ensure authoritative labour market information for their sectors;

•Develop national occupational standards and ensure qualifications meet employer needs.

The core remit of Sector Skills Councils



Sector Skills Councils are unique

•Uniquely independent and employer-led

•Uniquely UK-wide, covering 90% of the workforce

•Uniquely able to respond to real industry needs

•Uniquely supported by all major political parties

SSCs are unique in the world, increasingly emulated by other countries moving to a more demand-led system of workforce training and skills



Sector Skills Councils – examples of impact

• For every £1 of public investment, SSCs deliver a return of £12, on average, in terms of additional investment in skills•Over 1.7 million enterprises and 28 million workers have benefited from having SSCs since 2001. •People 1st have improved apprenticeship retention, saving £15 million in wasted public expenditure each year•Creative & Cultural Skills have pioneered an online careers and leadership portal – Creative Choices – supporting 190,000 people in the first year



6 key tests for Sector Skills Councils

•Is there weak sector demand for skills resulting in poor output or productivity performance?

•Are education providers (e.g. colleges and universities) being responsive enough to the skills demanded by industrial sectors, particularly in the technical and vocational sphere?

•Are there entrenched inequalities driven by employers’ discriminatory attitudes or sector recruitment practices?

•Is a separate sectoral intervention needed or is there an existing organisation (either sector or geographically based) that could undertake the same role?

•Is the nature of the sector organisation to be industry-led (independent), social partnership or state-directed?

•How will sector bodies be financed? (Collective/ industry levies or through general taxation?)



“insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting to get different results.”

Albert Einstein



Tom BewickChief Executive

Creative & Cultural Skills

www.ccskills.org.uk

www.creative-choices.co.uk

[email protected]

www.twitter.com/tombewick

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