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Closing Report on the SWESA Research & Knowledge Fund

forumThe Research Forum closing report provides details on the outputs from the SWESA Research and Knowledge Fund, and is a comprehensive reference guide to skills, enterprise and the state of the labour market in the region. It gives an accurate assessment and analysis of information for the South West, across a broad range of policy themes, presenting key issues and priorities along with supporting data. 
 
This is a product for the South West demonstrating collaborative working and drawing on an extensive reservoir of knowledge. Contributors to the report range from academics, researchers and policy analysts. The report reflects on links between cross-cutting themes, integrating these into a single document. 

If you do use any of the information contained in the report, please remember to reference the source and copyright, thank you. 
 
The individual chapters of this report are available as .pdf downloads below:

Section Chapter Page  
  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 2 [.pdf 36KB]
  FOREWORD 6 [.pdf 18KB]
1 INTRODUCTION 7  
2 BACKGROUND 8 [.pdf 37KB]
2.1 Role of the Research Forum 8  
2.2 Financial Arrangements 9  
2.2.1 RSP Research and Knowledge Fund 9  
2.2.2 Train to Gain Capacity Building Programme 10  
2.2.3 SLIM Mainstream Contract 10  
2.2.4 Total funding 10  
2.3 The Role of SLIM 10  
3 RESEARCH PROGRAMME - PROJECTS 12 [.pdf 79KB]
3.1 RSP Priorities 12  
3.2 The approach 12  
3.3 List of projects 13  
4 WHAT WE LEARNED? 21 [.pdf 47KB]
4.1 Joint Planning 21  
4.2 Brokerage 23  
4.3 Leadership and Management 24  
4.4 Skills for Life 24  
4.5 Enterprise Skills 25  
4.6 Migrant Workers 26  
4.7 Employability 26  
4.8 Other 27  
5 CONCLUSIONS 28 [.pdf 24KB]
  ANNEX A 30 [.pdf 141KB]
A1 Joint Planning 30  
1.1 Sector Balance Sheet Phase 1 30  
1.2 Labour Market Dynamism 31  
1.3 Regional Implementation of National Sector Skills Agreements - Learning Theme 33  
1.4 South West NESS 2005 Report 34  
1.5 Objective Three ESF Impact Analysis 36  
1.6 Sector Balance Sheet 2 39  
1.7 Healthy Labour Market Review 2005 and 2006 40  
1.8 Business Link Data Review 42  
1.9 Level 3 Review 44  
1.1 South West Gap Analysis 46  
1.11 Workplace Employment Relations Survey 49  
1.12 Objective One ESF Impact Analysis 50  
1.13 RSP Balanced Scorecard 52  
1.14 RSP Performance Monitoring Framework 53  
A.2 Skills Brokerage 54 [.pdf 83KB]
2.1 Train to Gain Broker Regional Awareness Workshop Programme 54  
2.2 Skills Utilisation 55  
2.3 Train to Gain Regional Case Studies 56  
2.4 Labour Market Knowledge 58  
2.5 Train to Gain Skills Broker Team Leader Business Planning event 58  
2.6 Train to Gain Broker Website 59  
2.7 Train to Gain Skills Audit Phases 1 and 2 60  
2.8 Train to Gain LSC/BL Joint Away Day 61  
2.9 Higher Level Skills Pathfinder Project Intermediaries Induction 62  
2.1 Train to Gain Broker Conference 63  
2.11 LSC Partnership Managers and Provider Events 64  
2.12 Integration of Brokerage Services 65  
2.13 Train to Gain LSC/BL Joint Away Day 66  
2.14 Employer Engagement in the South West 66  
A3 Leadership and Management 68 [.pdf 24KB]
3.1 Leadership & Management 68  
A4 Skills for Life 70 [.pdf 30KB]
4.1 Employers Perspectives on Skills for Life/ESOL 70  
4.2 Embedded Skills for Life in South West Workplaces 71  
A5 Enterprise Education 73 [.pdf 16KB]
5.1 Mapping and review of enterprise skills provision for young people in the South West 73  
A6 Migrant Workers 74 [.pdf 26KB]
6.1 Learning theme: Migrant Workers - the Challenge for the South West 74  
6.2 Migrant Workers in the South West 75  
A7 Employability 78 [.pdf 42KB]
7.1 Learning Theme: Young People in Jobs Without Training 78  
7.2 Flexible Training Solutions 79  
7.3 Young People in Jobs without Training in the South West. 81  
7.4 Generic Employability Skills II 82  
A8 Other 84 [.pdf 18KB]
8.1 Learning & Skills Research Network (LSRN) conference 84  
8.2 Joint ARO/ESRC Conference: Globalisation and the regions 84  
  ANNEX B 86 [.pdf 16KB]

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Last Updated: February 2008

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