Summary
This document
‘World
Class Skills: Implementing the Leitch Review of Skills in England’ (Cm.
7181), produced by the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills,
sets out the Government's policy direction to build world class employment
skills in England by 2020.
This publication aims to explain how the
Government will provide the right supporting framework to act as a catalyst for
a skills revolution.
Currently, more than a third of adults in
the UK don't have the equivalent of a basic school-leaving certificate, 6.8
million people have serious problems with numbers and 5 million people are not
functionally literate.
As part of this skills revolution, the Government
has set out new rights that learners and employers will have, under what are
called Skills Accounts and the Skills Pledge. The Skills Accounts will be part
of the new adult careers service done through Jobcentre Plus, which aims to
give every adult easy access to skills and careers advice. The Skills Pledge
enables employers to demonstrate their commitment to improving skills in their
workplace, with the Government supporting employers through Train to Gain
brokerage.
In addition, current funding entitlement for adults to free
training in basic literacy and numeracy skills will be strengthened.
It
is a companion document to the Green Paper
‘In
Work, Better Off’ (Cm.7130), also published 18th July 2006 (More
on this story on Have Your Say), and follows on from the
‘Leitch
Review of Skills’ (More
on this story on Have Your Say), published in December 2006.
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