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Sector Skills Agreement to commence 10 months early

Creative and Cultural Skills' plans for its Sector Skills Agreement (SSA) were approved this week, ten months before they were originally scheduled to do so.

Rather than commencing the work in January 2007, the Sector Skills Council for the creative and cultural sectors will now begin the work this April.

The SSA is a document that sets out the ways in which the needs of industry will be met through new training provision, course content provision and workforce development.

The process is a collaborative one with employers and other stakeholders being involved in each of the stages of the work. Each Sector Skills Council is tasked by Government to produce an SSA.

The stages include providing evidence of the sectors' skills needs and gaps, a mapping of current education and training provision, and an analysis of the match or mis-match between them.

Creative and Cultural Skills says their SSA process will take around 18 months, at which point the final document will be published for use by the creative and cultural industries, educationalists and stakeholders for future workforce development.

Caroline Parkinson, executive director of nations and regions at Creative and Cultural Skills, said: "I am delighted that we are able to start work on our SSA earlier than planned.

"The SSA is a very important process that can benefit all of our sectors in the future. The result will be an agreed strategic plan signed up to by our partner organisations and employers.

"The plan will address the needs of the industry, offer clear routes to careers, information to support learners' choices, and course content and work related training to better prepare new entrants to the creative and cultural sector. This will mean that the creative and cultural sectors across the UK can continue to be world class."

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