Specific Funding Criteria for People and Skills
- Extending the labour market by helping people presently gain entry skills and move into the labour market through guidance and support. Ideas have included:
- Moving people on incapacity and other benefits towards work;
- Smoothing entry into employment through guidance and information;
- Raising awareness of sectors and industries where there will be job growth;
- Piloting improved access to training opportunities.
- Developing initiatives which increased the level of local graduate employment within Leicester Shire, including engaging undergraduates in placements, volunteering and consultancy.
- Improving the match between skill needs and training provision, including:
- Continued emphasis on the key growth sectors of construction, education, food and drink, health/social care, engineering and hospitality;
- Cluster-based approaches to working with SMEs;
- Improving skill levels and economic opportunities for young people leaving care and for the likely increase in people from overseas following EU enlargement;
- Workforce development in the voluntary/community sector;
- Accredited, flexible courses moving people into and through the education field;
- Higher level skills for management and leadership;
- Part-time/flexible routes to career change;
- Skills for enterprise and business start up.
