Yorkshire Training Partnership

By ensuring your employees have the right skills to do the best job, Yorkshire Training Partnership Ltd and Train to Gain can help boost productivity and keep you ahead of the competition.

Working closely with Yorkshire Training Partnership Ltd, you can provide quality, affordable training for your employees. Together you can:

1. Identify the skills your business needs
2. Pinpoint the right training
3. Agree a tailored training package
4. Find available funding
5. Review the progress you are making

Step 1: Identify the skills your business needs

Based on a clear understanding of your business goals, a skills broker works with you to carry out a free review and analysis of your business to assess what skills your business has right now, and what it might need in the future.

Skills brokers are employed by the Learning and Skills Council, and are all specialists in training and have a proven track record of providing effective advice to business. If you need it, they can also provide access to a wider network of business support services.

Step 2: Pinpoint the right training

Your skills broker makes training recommendations based on their skills analysis explained in Step 1. The recommendation will help you:

• Pinpoint the type of training that best suits your needs
• Select the most appropriate training providers (all Train to Gain training providers meet national quality standards)
• Choose how and when the training is delivered
• Determine which qualifications your employees will benefit most from.

Step 3: Agree a tailored training package

Together with your skills broker and the training provider that you select, you agree a training package.

Step 4: Find available funding

Your skills broker can recommend the best ways of funding your training, explaining all the funding options available to you. Train to Gain provides some funding itself. This might include:

• Free training to help employees gain their first full Level 2 qualification and Skills for Life first numeracy and literacy qualification. This includes all training towards NVQ Level 2 or equivalent (equal to 5 GCSEs at Grade C or above), Skills for Life programmes, higher level skills and a wide range of other training for your staff.
• Wage compensation for companies with less than 50 employees.
• Funded programmes, including for Apprenticeships and Advanced Apprenticeships, NVQ Level 3 and above, such as higher education.

Step 5: Review the progress you are making

Your skills broker provides continual support and works with you to review how your training is progressing.