TUC Report On Implementing Leitch

The TUC has recently published detailed comments on the government’s plans to implement the Leitch report.

It welcomes the plan’s recognition that meeting the skill needs of individual employees is important. However, the TUC continues to have concerns about the extent to which the employer-led approach on skills is being strengthened.

It says it will continue to press the Government to give employees and trade unions a significant voice in the new institutional skills framework, in particular via the new Commission for Employment and Skills. The TUC also says that the workforce, through trade union representation, should have a significant influence on the new powers that Sector Skills Councils are to be given around the design and approval of vocational qualifications.

A copy of the TUC report, Implementing the Leitch Review of Skills, is available for download.