Closing Report on the SWESA Research & Knowledge Fund

forum The 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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