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Campaign highlight: Logistics UK’s latest report on skills published
Logistics UK has published the Logistics Skills Review 2023, looking at the latest skills challenges and opportunities facing the sector.
The report, which was launched in August, outlines the business group’s latest industry ambitions and policy recommendations, which include:
Funding: Reform of skills funding to ensure businesses can create opportunities and meet long-term needs, including:
- Transforming the Apprenticeship Levy into a more flexible Training Levy.
- Appropriate funding for training providers.
- Broadening eligibility for roles in the sector to receive support through the National Skills Fund.
Access and appeal: Improving access to, and the appeal of, careers in logistics by:
- Continued collaborative effort to promote the industry to young people and job seekers through Generation Logistics.
- Targeted use of migration to meet short-term, acute skills needs.
- Investment in facilities to improve the welfare of logistics workers.
Future skills: Identification and development of transferable and cross-cutting skills needed by the current and future logistics industry.
The report builds on Logistics UK’s wider skills policy work, where the business group has recently responded to the Shortage Occupation List (SOL) Call for Evidence, outlining how the UK is continuing to face a shortage of vehicle technicians, specifically those who are qualified to work on HGVs. As part of the response, Logistics UK has called for HGV technicians to be added to the SOL, so that businesses are able to recruit the talent they need in the short term.
This is in addition to calling for a reform of the Apprenticeship Levy into a Training Levy to support skills development across the logistics system, investing in logistics facilities to improve the welfare of workers across the sector, as well as the long-term ambition to get logistics on the national curriculum to ensure young people are aware of the importance of logistics to the economy and the wide variety of roles within it.
View a copy of the report here.
Published On: 14/09/2023 15:00:00
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