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Making Excellence the Standard
Attract new talent Develop the workforce Assure a high level of competence
Energy and Utility Skills works across the UK, to ensure the power &
gas, water & sewerage, waste management & recycling sectors have a
sustainable workforce….now and in the future.
Nick Ellins, Group Chief Executive
• Inform UK-wide workforce and skills policy, strategy and legislation
• Manage 1.1million utility sector skills records
• Design competency schemes and operate systems to demonstrate knowledge retention
• Produce more than a quarter of million competency assurance cards
• Build apprenticeships to meet the new Apprenticeship Levy Standards
• Operate the end point assessment service that graduates utility apprentices
• Piloting competency ‘passports’ and ways of bringing skills investment via procurement
• Leadership of Smart 2020 smart metering workforce competence and accreditation
How we do this
Apparently there is a ‘Skills Cliff Edge’….. AGAIN
All images sourced courtesy of Bing.Com
Workforce Renewal Challenge
Workforce Availability is Changing
“The employment rate now stands at 73.3%, the highest rate of people in work since the ONS began keeping records in 1971.” BBC News – Business
But despite the workforce renewal pressures, the accompanying National Infrastructure Plan for Skills contains no strategy for the utilities or their partners.
Your role in the UK economy is pivotal
£0.5 Trillion
Workforce and Employment Environment
New Apprenticeship Levy not
designed to aide delivery of
National Infrastructure Plan or
Regulatory determinations
Increasing competition from rail
with core job roles. Government
ultimately own rail and the
revenues - a virtuous circle
Increasingly different policy
and legal approach being
taken by the four UK nations
Department for Education don’t
understand regulated industries,
working in isolation from the
sponsoring Government departments
and regulators
Ofgem and Ofwat strategies
are currently silent.
Resilience duty sees
individual company risk, not
the sector
Whole UK skills governance and
structure is changing….without the
involvement of sector Departments
or regulators
Long-term plans and price controls
don’t look at sector, regional or pan-
industry workforce renewal risks
Workforce and skills need
missing from BEIS/DECC
and DEFRA strategies
No strategy for utilities within
the HM Treasury National
Infrastructure Plan for Skills
Workforce Renewal & Skills Strategy
The first ever workforce renewal and skills strategy for
the energy & utilities sector was launched
on 9 February 2017 across the UK
Includes:
• Mass talent and employment initiatives in partnership
with the DWP and Job Centre Plus
• Sector wide initiatives to increase investment in training
• Diversity, equality and inclusion
• Skills passports, to increase productivity and optimise
investment in training
• Apprenticeships embedded across the strategy
Workforce Renewal and Skills Strategy
David Smith, Chief Executive, Energy Networks Association
“Our networks are undergoing a transformation to deliver electricity and
gas in a smarter, low carbon energy system. Ensuring that the right skills
are available in the workforce will be crucial to meeting new challenges and
will require long term thinking in order to be successful. I welcome the
launch of the Energy & Utilities Skills Partnership workforce renewal and
skills strategy, which makes a valuable contribution to what is a very important issue for the energy industry over the coming years.“
Competence, Behaviours and Culture
Attract new talent Develop the workforce Assure a high level of competence
Thank you
Nick Ellins, Group Chief Executive
Making Excellence the Standard