Next Meeting

The next scheduled meeting of the Compact Steering Group is the Summer meeting to be held on Thursday the March 15th 2012. The meeting will start at 10.00 am at the JC+ offices in Grantham. All Compact members are welcome. Interested ? .. email chris@donkinitex.co.uk

Next Event

The next event open to Compact members is a good practice event to look at 'Shared Services' and will take place in Wed 25th Jan 2012. Please keep visiting this site as details of the event will be posted as they become available. To be sent a draft agenda please email chris@donkinitex.co.uk

Apprenticeship Update

Nationally, 26% of employed people work in the Public Sector, yet only approximately 10% of apprenticeship programmes are accessed by sector employees. The challenge is to narrow this gap.

To meet this challenge, get yourself support from Employer Engagement Services at NAS. Contact Mike Crosby via email - Mike.Crosby@apprenticeships.gov.uk . Alternatively visit the Apprenticeships web site at : http://www.apprenticeships.org.uk

Committment to Skills Development

The Skills Pledge was a voluntary, public commitment by the leadership of a company or organisation to support all its employees to develop their basic skills, including literacy and numeracy, and work towards relevant, valuable qualifications to at least Level 2. Between 2008 and 2010 almost all the Compact's member organisations signed the Skills Pledge. With the Pledge not being prmoted as actively in these coalition times rather than under the Labour administration, the Compact remains committed to the aim of encouraging all of it's member organisations to make (and honour) a formal committment to skills development. Contact Chris Donkin (chris@donkinitex.co.uk) for more details of this work. 

Test the Organisation

Following the success of working in partnership with the LSC and the TUC in 2010 to stage 8 'Test the Organisation' events, the Compact is at it again !!

This year the Compact in collaboration with the SFA and the TUC are supporting nine 'Test' events. Five public sector and four third sector organisations are testing their workforce to identify numeracy issues and then offer subsequent support. For more details look on the 'Learning and Development' section of this web site 

Job Centre Plus Update

Job Centre Plus are supporting all aspects of Compact activity concerned with recruitment and support for redundancy. Please visit the Job Centre Plus site further information about JC+ activity.