LEAP can feel a sense of quiet satisfaction, as a result of a report launched in February by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills.
The report, The Employability Challenge, was written in response to employer’s concerns about why, after years of discussion about employability skills, far too few candidates for recruitment have these skills.
It calls upon all publicly-funded education and training providers to put employability skills at the heart of what they do and challenges policy makers, funding bodies and awarding organisations to use their leverage to stimulate and support this organisational change.
In this recession, employability skills are even more important. Whilst qualifications are essential, getting a job is dependent on an individual’s ability to demonstrate employability skills – the right attitudes, initiative and behaviours.
The work of LEAP features prominently in the report, which sets out six principles that underpin effective practice in the development of employability and provides practical illustrations of each principle through references to your and other case studies.
Tunde Banjoko OBE, Chief Executive of LEAP, said: “We have been doing this work for over 10 years and could never understand why something that we saw as central to empowering disadvantaged people, was seen in a number of ways of crucial ways, not least funding, as on the periphery. After over 10 years of transforming people’s lives by focusing on teaching them the right attitude and behaviour to succeed, we hope that the report’s recommendations are taken on in full so that hundreds of thousands of people in this country can reap the benefit.”
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