Below you will find links to several websites which you may find useful. Below each link is a brief description of what each site is about.
Alliance of Sector Skills Councils
The Alliance of Sector Skills Councils acts as the collective voice for all of the 25 Sector Skills Councils (SSCs). Here you will also find links to each of the SSCs.
This website will tell you everything you need to know about apprenticeships.
Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
The Government has created a Department for Business, Innovation & Skills whose key role will be to build Britain’s capabilities to compete in the global economy. The Department has been created by merging BERR and DIUS.
The Employers Guide is part of the National Learning Directory, the UK's biggest training database. Use this site to search for courses if you’re looking to procure training. TQS Certificated providers will appear in the search listings first.
Employer Recognition Programme
This is the programme by which employers can gain national accreditation for their in-house training programmes using the Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF).
This report presents Leitch’s view of the UK’s optimal skills mix for 2020 to maximise economic growth, productivity and social justice, and to consider the policy implications of achieving the level of change required. This report provides the rationale for up-skilling the UK workforce.
The Learning and Skills Council is responsible for planning and funding high quality education and training in England. It led and funded the development of the Training Quality Standard.
The National Employer Service (NES) offers specialist advice on workforce development to national, multi-site employers with more than 5000 employees, supported by the option of a direct funding contract.
National Skills Academies are sector-specific, employer-led centres of training excellence who work with government and training providers to shape the training and qualifications that will help the UK to compete in a global market.
The Skills Pledge is a voluntary, public commitment made by an organisation to invest in the skills of its workforce.
talentmap™ provides a simple framework for employers to navigate the education, employment and skills systems in the UK - and find the funding and support they need.
Train to Gain is the national skills service that supports employers with fewer than 5,000 employees to improve the skills of their workforce as a route to improving business performance.
To raise the profile of skills in the UK, UK Skills champion skills and learning for work through the delivery of innovative, high profile competitions and awards which showcase excellence, and demonstrate how exceptional performance improves individual and organisational success.
United Kingdom Accreditation Service
The United Kingdom Accreditation Service is the sole national accreditation body recognised by government to assess, against internationally agreed standards, organisations that provide certification, testing, inspection and calibration services. UKAS accredits Certification Bodies to award TQS Certifications.