This section provides detailed data from the results of the National Employer Skills Survey (NESS) 2009. These tables cover a range of breakdowns for the South West, including by employer sizeband, industrial sector and local authority.
Key Findings from the National Employer Skills Survey (NESS) 2009 - South West
NESS 2005 Reports.
The complete series of NESS findings from 2003 - 2009 is available from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, and can be accessed here.
Vacancies and Recruitment Difficulties |
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| As seen in previous NESS surveys, there is substantial variation in the incidence of vacancies, HTFVs and SSVs across different industry sectors. |
| Updated: 12/11/2010 |
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Skills Gaps |
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| An increased workload for other staff is by far the most common negative impact experienced as a result of staff having skills gaps (reported by 47% of South West employers with skills gaps, equivalent to 10% of all employers). |
| Updated: 15/11/2010 |
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Upskilling |
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| By far the most common occupation reported is managerial staff, with 43% of those employers seeing a need for up-skilling among managerial employees. |
| Updated: 15/11/2010 |
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Business Planning |
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| Almost three-fifths of all employers in the South West (57%) have a business plan specifying the establishment’s objectives for the 12 months ahead. |
| Updated: 15/11/2010 |
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Workforce Training |
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| By local authority, the high level of formal business planning in Swindon is translated into a high level of training activity, with 76% of employers providing training and 69% of the workforce receiving training in the last year. |
| Updated: 15/11/2010 |
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Training Volumes |
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| By SSC, higher than average levels in Skills for Health and Skills for Care, while training is highest of all in Energy & utility skills, at more than 20 days per employee. |
| Updated: 15/11/2010 |
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Nature of Training |
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| By SIC, those primarily covering public services having the highest levels of off-the-job training. The lowest levels are in Skillfast-UK, which also has the highest proportion of employers offering no training. |
| Updated: 19/11/2010 |
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Training Providers |
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| Just over 40% of South West employers providing training (41% - equivalent to around 49,000 employers), would have liked to have provided more training than they actually undertook (either more training for existing trainees or training more people). |
| Updated: 19/11/2010 |
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Barriers to Training |
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| Among firms that have trained any staff in the last year, a larger proportion report that they train less or have spent less as a result of the recession than report that they train more or have spent more. |
| Updated: 19/11/2010 |
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Recruiting Young People |
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| The recruitment of 16 year olds is likely to be strongly linked to the industrial structure of the area and the availability of lower-skilled jobs e.g. in retail, leisure, hospitality and catering, such as in Bournemouth, Plymouth, Swindon and Torbay. |
| Updated: 19/11/2010 |
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Government Initiatives |
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| The highest level of engagement in Government Initiatives was found among employers in the SSC footprints for Skills for Health, Skills for Care and Lifelong Learning UK. The lowest levels are found in Lantra. |
| Updated: 19/11/2010 |
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Current Involvement with Apprenticeships |
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| The SSC sectors least likely to offer or to have apprentices currently are more likely to cover service industries, including employers covered by Skills for Logistics and Asset Skills where just 4% of employers in each of these SSC sectors offer Apprenticeships and just 1% currently have apprentices. |
| Updated: 22/11/2010 |
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Future Involvement with Apprenticeships |
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| Overall, just over 27,000 (16%) South West employers think it likely (i.e. very or quite likely) that they will have an apprentice (in one of the three age groups specified in the survey) in the next year. This suggests that demand for Apprenticeships could rise significantly in the region, based on the 9% that said they currently offer Apprenticeships. |
| Updated: 22/11/2010 |
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Management Skills |
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| Alongside specific management skills, more generic skills such as IT skills, team working, problem-solving, communication and customer-handling are all mentioned by 25-35% of employers with managerial skills gaps. |
| Updated: 22/11/2010 |
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