Angie ForemanOperations and Partnership Management

Agenda for today

Improve update - activity planned in Scotland for 2015-16

Statistics from the MA Frameworks

Update on Scotland Food and Drink Skills

Academy activity

Planned projects* for 2015-2016

National Occupational Standards projects•Revise Food Science Technology suite

– May be used as basis for future competence based qualifications in all nations

•Contextualise Engineering Maintenance suite for food and drink industry

New SVQ in Food and Drink Engineering Maintenance (FDEM)

Update Level 3 MA framework to incorporate the new SVQ in FDEM

*subject to final confirmation of funding

Statistics from the MA Frameworks

MA Completions 2009 – 2014 Level 2 and 3

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

28 77 484 843 1009 738

Statistics from the MA Frameworks Levels 2 & 3

MA Completions 2014 by PathwayPathway Total

Bakery/Craft Bakery 63

Distribution Skills 53

Fish & Shellfish Processing 88

Food & Drink Operations 109

Food Manufacturing Excellence 4

Food Sales and Service 179

Fresh Produce 4

Meat & Poultry 65

Production & Processing 173

Supply Chain Skills 2

TOTAL 738

Statistics from the MA Frameworks

MA Registrations 2009 – 2014 Level 2 and 3

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

420 702 837 1257 1194 1180

MA Online – reminders for centres• Additional outcomes need to be completed during

the apprenticeship (ie between the start and certification date)

• Certificate claims are guaranteed to be processed within 20 days.

• Improve process certificate claims within 10 days whenever possible - customer service offer.

The SVQ portfolio

• Which providers will be interested in offering a new SVQ in FDEM?

• Is anything missing from the Food and Drink

SVQ portfolio?

• Revisions to qualification structures

- feedback from last year

Scotland Food and Drink Skills Academy• SFDSA is a single source of skills support and training

dedicated to Scotland’s Food and Drink Manufacturing and Processing Sector

• Established by the industry for the industry

• Access to leading-edge workforce training, study and skill upgrades designed to boost productivity, profitability and innovation

Funders

• Scottish Government • Scottish Funding Council• Skills Development Scotland

Hosted and supported by

• National Skills Academy Food and Drink • Abertay University

Board representative of industry employers and stakeholders• Skills Development Scotland• Scottish Enterprise• Scottish Funding Council• Scotland Food and Drink• Scottish Government• National Skills Academy

• Dairy• Fresh Produce• Meat• Fish• Whisky• Bakery

Skills • We need people with the skills that will make

businesses more productive• We need more entrepreneurs and people who

can lead, along with others who are experts in marketing, design and branding.

• We need to start attracting bright young people into the industry, which means making jobs in the food and drink industry a more attractive career option

Characteristics of the F&D Workforce• Aging Workforce

• More likely to employ people over 45• Yet, 1 in 5, 16-24yr olds are unemployed

• Lower skilled occupations• Greater share in elementary positions

• Recruitment Employers are more likely to recruit someone with no qualifications

• Lower levels of training provided• All-industry level 65%• F&D 57%

• Skills shortages: • Specialise skills, Food Technologists, Engineers

Industry FACTS• Annual turnover of £13.9billion• Employs 360,000 people and has a growth target of £16.5billion by 2017.• Food and Drink Manufacturing alone has an annual turnover of £10.4billion and

achieves exports of £5.9billion. • It is Scotland’s largest manufacturing sector employing 43,300 people in over

800 businesses. By comparison, oil and gas extraction employs 9,400 people.• A total of 1,180 people started a Modern Apprenticeship in Scotland’s Food &

Drink Manufacturing sector during 2014. • Some 810 people completed their Modern Apprenticeship in the sector in the

same year.• Scotland has an aging workforce profile with around a third of staff set to retire

by 2020.

Industry - Future – Looking ahead- Preparing• As an increasingly automated industry using the latest production

techniques with intense marketplace demands for new products and product innovation, the sector has high demand for skilled young talent to enter the industry – particularly in the areas of:

• Food technology, • Food science, • Engineering,• Lean production and • Management and professional posts.

Cont.• The industry faces intense competition from other sectors for

engineering graduates. • The UK produces 46,000 engineering graduates each year yet has

annual demand for 87,000.

• “Workforce skills are at the heart of sustainable competitive advantage and businesses that invest in their people are the businesses that succeed,”

Our role• To increase the quality and quantity of training undertaken

by the industry in order to support the growth agenda:• Identify the skills, training, educational and development

needs and gaps • Skills Audits – Seafood, Whisky, Dairy

• Provide a high quality network of approved training providers with industry Food and Drink Industry in Scotland.

Our Model

Some of the SFDSA Activities from May 14

• 3 x Skills Audits (In progress)• Employer Engagement: 400+ companies• Established a Provider Network – 17 providers• 59 Businesses in Training• Harnessed over £300,000 worth of training opportunities • 80+ Modern Apprenticeships• Launched : Food Manufacturing Excellence• 25 new entrants in to industry

– Tasty jobs, work placement,

• 115 women participated in various training– Women in Work funding• Leadership and Management Training/ Programmes, Train the Trainers, internal Academies• Compliance/ Audit Specialism• CPD- Study visits/ Knowledge Exchange

SFDSA is here to add value

Thank you

For further information visit

W: Sfd-skillsacademy.co.uk

E: info:sfd-skillsacademy.co.uk

E: angie.foreman@sfdsa.co.uk

M: 07975 233 656