Securing Jobs for Your Future. Skills for Victoria has four clear goals: increasing the number of people undertaking training in areas and at the levels where skills are needed for Victoria’s economic and social development; developing a training system that engages more effectively with individuals and businesses and is easier to navigate; ensuring Victoria’s skills system is responsive to the changing needs of Victoria’s industry and workforce; and creating a culture of lifelong skills development. A key element of Securing Jobs for Your Future – Skills for Victoria is that government subsidised training is focused on individual and business needs, led by individual and business demands and delivered by capable, flexible and competitive providers, both public and private. The implementation of Securing Jobs for Your Future – Skills for Victoria is being staged over four years from 2009 - 2012. This is to allow time for the redevelopment of reformed governance, funding and contract arrangements, and any necessary redesign of systems and work practices for TAFE and non-TAFE providers. As part of the staged implementation, the Commission is entering into 12 month Agreements with the Board/Council. This is the second such Agreement. The impact of Securing Jobs for Your Future – Skills for Victoria is being carefully monitored during implementation and a review will be undertaken in 2010, prior to full implementation. Complementing the Securing Jobs for Your Future – Skills for Victoria policy, the Victorian Government, through the Council of Australian Governments (COAG), has also committed to providing an entitlement to government-subsidised training for eligible individuals through the Compact with Young Australians and the Retrenched Worker Training Entitlement.
Securing Jobs for Your Future. Skills for Victoria is a Victorian Government initiative to reform and refocus the training system to best meet the needs of those who depend on it. Launched in August 2008, the policy is giving Victoria a better vocational education and training system to meet the challenges and opportunities of the future. The policy establishes the Victorian Training Guarantee as an entitlement to a government subsidised place in recognised training for all Victorians.
Securing Jobs for Your Future. Skills for Victoria has four clear goals: • increasing the number of people undertaking training in areas and at the levels where skills are needed for Victoria’s economic and social development; • developing a training system that engages more effectively with individuals and businesses and is easier to navigate; • ensuring Victoria’s skills system is responsive to the changing needs of Victoria’s industry and workforce; and • creating a culture of lifelong skills development.
Securing Jobs for Your Future. Skills for Victoria: Skills Deepening The Board/ Council will be paid for training delivered to eligible individuals undertaking training in Skills Deepening Category courses (i.e. AQF level V and above) through SVTS. Delivery to apprentices and trainees at AQF levels V and above is included in these funding arrangements. Funding for training delivered to eligible individuals will be provided in arrears for the monthly scheduled hours delivered and reported where the institute has satisfactory evidence of participation. Training delivered to eligible individuals under this initiative will NOT be counted towards the total minimum value described in Schedule 3 Part 4A. Training delivered under this initiative must be reported against the following fund source codes: P or L
