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What is Train to Gain?
Train to Gain is a new service designed to help businesses get the training they need to succeed.
Train to Gain can help businesses improve their productivity and competitiveness by ensuring that staff have the right skills to do the best job.
Train to Gain and the Learning and Skills Council
The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) is the organization responsible for making England better skilled and more competitive. It is responsible for planning and funding high-quality vocational education and training for everyone and works closely with businesses to ensure this training meets their needs effectively.
Research shows that 1.3 million people go to work everyday without the skills they require to do their job proficiently. Employers are increasingly investing in staff development and reaping benefits that include improved staff confidence, motivation and increased productivity.
The LSC’s vision is that by 2010 young people and adults in England have the knowledge and skills matching the best in the world and are part of a truly competitive workforce. It is only by working in partnership with employers that we will be able to achieve this.
Train to Gain and your business: How does it work?
By ensuring your employees have the right skills to do the best job, Havering College can help boost your productivity and keep you ahead of the competition.
You have five easy steps from great training
Step 1: Indentify the skills your business needs
Havering College will work with you to carry out a free review and analysis of your business needs to assess what skills your business needs now, and what it might need in the future, based on a clear understanding of your business goals.
Havering College a proven track record of providing effective service s to business. Access to wider network of business support service can also be provided.
Step 2: Pinpoint the right training
Havering College makes training recommendations based on their skills analysis explained in Step 1. These will help you:
• Pinpoint the type of training that best suits your needs;
• Select the right alternative Training Provider (if identified provision is not currently delivered at Havering College);
• Choose how and when the training is delivered;
• Determine which qualifications your employees will benefit from.
Step 3: Agree a tailored training package
Together with Havering College you can agree a training package.
Step 4: Find available funding
Havering College can recommend the best ways of funding your training, explaining all the funding options available to you. Train to Gain provides some funding itself. This might include:
• Contribution to wage costs. This might available for companies with fewer than 50 employees.
• Access to funding to help employees gain their first full Level 2 qualification and Skills for Life numeracy and literacy qualification, plus programmes such as Apprenticeship, Advanced Apprenticeship and NVQ Level 3 and above.
Step 5: Review the progress you’re making
Havering College provides continual support and reviews how your training is progressing.
Contact Havering College for help to a more successful business.
To find out more about how Havering College can work with your business, call us on 01708 462800 or email.
