Research
As well as researching the skills needs across the whole UK, Proskills also produces individual reports and data for each of the Devolved Administrations. This helps to identify any specific skills-related issues for each Nation, as well as where there are skill needs that cut across different locations.
Proskills has produced the following reports, which deal specifically with Wales:
- The Proskills Sector Skills Assessment – Wales
Proskills has recently completed its full Sector Skills Assessment for Wales, which gives an overview of the Process and Manufacturing sector, and a summary of the current and future skills issues. It draws on a range of primary and secondary sources including the ABI, LFS, the UKCES Skills Almanac, Working Futures, and Proskills’ own surveys, including a major survey of employers and a survey of trade associations, both completed in 2009.
This document forms part of the core remit for Proskills as a Sector Skills Council as detailed in the UKCES
Information to Intelligence document.
- The Sector Skills Agreement for the Proskills industries in Wales
The SSA process took place in 2005/6 and covered the five industries in the original Proskills footprint: building products, coatings, extractive and mineral processing, glass and related industries, and printing.
The following externally produced reports also contains information relevant to the Proskills industries:
- Futureskills Wales Survey of Sectors 2005
This report provides information on Proskills sector characteristics, recruitment difficulties and skill shortages, internal skill gaps and off-the-job training provision.
- Evaluation of Skills in the Workplace: Stage 2 Report (English only)
- SitW Thematic Report: The Adoption of Skills in the Workplace by Different Industrial Sectors (English only)
- SitW Thematic Report: Confusion in the Marketplace (English only)
For more information on Proskills research activities across the whole sector, please click here