Debate contribution: Skills Shortages
Debate contribution by Mr Conor Murphy on .
- MLA
- Mr Conor Murphy
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 20 January 2025
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Skills Shortages
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4744702
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We engage with industry — with clusters and with individual companies — to ensure that we have the bespoke training, through, for example, skills academies, that is needed for a particular area in order to create a skills pipeline for the people who operate in that area. The skills fund aligns with my economic plans. It already supports a range of initiatives targeting up to 8,000 individuals to upskill this financial year. Those initiatives include a new SKILL UP programme, developing our workforce in the childcare sector and training for green skills. I am also focused on ensuring that we offer support to people facing additional barriers to accessing learning and employment. A number of new initiatives are being supported to provide training and additional support to individuals who are economically inactive. Those include programmes targeting people who are disabled or neurodiverse or who have barriers to entering employment or learning. Additional funding is provided for a series of women returners' initiatives to help individuals to use learning to gain confidence and skills to re-enter the workforce. Local further education colleges and universities are taking the lead on delivering all skills fund programmes.
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