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2.1 Government organisations
The Employment Department is organised into four directorates.
1. Training and Enterprise Directorate (TEED)
It is responsible for work on training, enterprise and education policy. An other organisation called National Training Task Force (NTTF) was established to help TEED. The main assignment of the NTTF is to research into training, enterprise and vocational development, research priorities and sponsoring seminars on emerging issues and trends.
2. The Industrial Relations and International Directorate (IRID)
It is responsible for the promotion of a competitive and efficient market by improving industrial relations, removing barriers and safeguarding the employment rights of individuals. (It is like the "Arbeiterkammer" in Austria.)
3. Resources and Strategy Directorate (RSD)
It provides corporate services and economics, research and evaluation support to all staff in the Employment Department headquarters.
4. The Employment Service
It's main aim is to help promote a competitive and efficient labour market by giving positive help to unemployed people through their search for a job.
Its aims in relation to training are:
. to provide unemployed people with job opportunities,
. job search seminars,
. job review workshops,
. restart courses,
. to provide particular assistance to young people with a disability to take advantage of work and training opportunities.
2.2 Industrial organisations
The ITO´s (Industrial Training Organisations) are responsible for defining the current and future training needs of their respective industry sectors. They are doing this by improving company performance and promoting meaningful standards of competence.
. identifying and monitoring key skill needs and training requirements
. developing and promoting the resulting vocational qualifications
are other assignments.
There are about 120 different Industrial Training Organisations.
2.3 Local organisations
The TEC´s (Training and Enterprise Councils) are independent companies who have contracts with the Secretary of State. TEC´s are the heart of local training initiatives. They help to provide the country with the skilled and enterprising workforce it needs. Their aim is to provide particle community-based help to employers investing in training. For example the mission of the Hampshire TEC is: "To encourage economic growth through effective training and enterprise."
Now some facts of Hampshire TEC:
young people training 7036
young people with special needs 286
adults in training 1565
adults achieving a job or qualification 1011
For training for young people they needed 600,000 pounds. They are so good because they are working with some of the industrial sectors to identify ways in which it could best meet their needs.
The TEC in Hampshire is so useful because more than 11000 workers lost their job and so they could prepare training initiatives designed to reskill these workers.
In Scotland for example, 21,4 million pound where spent in enterprise training, 92,3 million in youth training, and 103,6 million pound in adult training. The companies received a total of 329,5 million pounds from the Scottish Enterprise in 1991-1992. This provided 37,500 youth training places, and 7,500 young people left with vocational qualifications.
There is no difference between Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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