The Sector Skills Council for the places where we live and work
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Asset Skills recently commissioned research providing a 2011 housing and property intelligence update. The purpose of this project is to understand how the housing and property sectors can be better understood, by splitting key industry metrics into individual sectors. This is necessary because the Standard Industrial Classifications (SIC) for the housing and property sector are often grouped together and therefore disaggregating these two sectors is required to produce a profile of each of the sectors.
Click here to read/download the Housing and Property Intelligence update 2011
The Asset Skills Barometer periodically samples employers’ response to skills and productivity issues, to better understand the current performance and challenges of companies within the sector. This is a rolling programme, with results published every six months. Since its inception in July 2008, over 1,400 employer interviews have been conducted.
Click here for the latest survey results and for an opportunity to participate in the survey.
The purposes of these nine reports are to present the results of a fully comprehensive research programme, providing an authoritative, rigorous, strategic and forward thinking analysis of the Asset Skills industries current and future skills needs in the UK.
This assessment of current and future skills needs is a sophisticated and robust analysis of sector trends, drivers of productivity, identification of areas for workforce development and reducing skills gaps and shortages.
It provides informative evidence resources that can be consulted and used as the basis for policy development, with the ultimate aim of creating tangible improvements in the competitive position of the Asset Skills industries.
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Asset Skills have recently undertaken a number of in-depth interviews with recruitment agencies and Jobcentre plus. These interviews seek information on a number of areas including;
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A study to produce a sector profile and skills needs assessment of the Facilities Management (FM) sector in Northern Ireland (NI) was undertaken between September 2008 and March 2009. It drew on consultation with NI FM employers and recruitment agencies, analysis of published data sources and a top-level review of training supply.
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A series of research studies were undertaken to produce a sector profile and skills needs assessment of the Facilities Management sector in Northern Ireland. The research programme comprised the following elements:
Migrant labour appears to be a significant part of many sectors in the UK economy. Although anecdotal and qualitative research regarding migrant workers in low-paid employment in the UK exists, there is little quantitative data available on the subject and very little information specifically regarding migrant workers in the cleaning industry in England. As a consequence Asset Skills has undertaken research in order to understand more about the role and importance of migrant workers and establish a knowledge base for migrant workers in the current English cleaning industry.
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A Sector Skills Agreement (SSA) is a national agreement between employers, their Sector Skills Council (SSC), key Government departments and delivery partners such as the Learning and Skills Council, Regional Development Agencies, Higher Educational Institutions, Trades Union Congress, Confederation of British Industry and the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority.
Each SSC has reached an agreement with the employers and stakeholders in their sector to ensure that 'the skills the sector needs are the skills the sector gets'.
