Contracts/Deals: Skills for Logistics wins fund to take military skills to civvy street
18 October 2012
Skills for Logistics (SfL) has been awarded £1.14m to deliver a programme for transition from military to civilian logistics for up to 1,000 people leaving the armed forces.
Thu, 18 Oct 2012
Sector skills council Skills for Logistics (SfL) has been awarded £1.14m to deliver a programme for transition from military to civilian logistics for up to 1,000 people leaving the armed forces.
Under the third phase of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills’ Employer Investment Fund (EIF3), SfL, the Skills Sector Council (SSC) for the freight logistics and wholesaling sector, will provide a specific route into the sector for ex-Armed Forces personnel, mainly through existing and newly established Local Logistics Community Networks.
Mick Jackson, chief executive of SfL, says that although the sector needs skilled labour, particularly to fill acute driver shortages, such skills exist within the Armed Forces but they don’t transfer effectively into civilian job roles. “It is this market failure we seek to address,” he says.
“We know that of the 25,000 apprenticeships awarded in the sector between August 2004 and July 2011, 12,000 were to apprentices in the Armed Forces. SfL’s solution will ensure these logistics skills transfer into the sector by providing service leavers with necessary work experience, on-the-job training, interview practice and formal interview feedback to better equip them for a career in the civilian world.”
Sector skills council Skills for Logistics (SfL) has been awarded £1.14m to deliver a programme for transition from military to civilian logistics for up to 1,000 people leaving the armed forces.
Under the third phase of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills’ Employer Investment Fund (EIF3), SfL, the Skills Sector Council (SSC) for the freight logistics and wholesaling sector, will provide a specific route into the sector for ex-Armed Forces personnel, mainly through existing and newly established Local Logistics Community Networks.
Mick Jackson, chief executive of SfL, says that although the sector needs skilled labour, particularly to fill acute driver shortages, such skills exist within the Armed Forces but they don’t transfer effectively into civilian job roles. “It is this market failure we seek to address,” he says.
“We know that of the 25,000 apprenticeships awarded in the sector between August 2004 and July 2011, 12,000 were to apprentices in the Armed Forces. SfL’s solution will ensure these logistics skills transfer into the sector by providing service leavers with necessary work experience, on-the-job training, interview practice and formal interview feedback to better equip them for a career in the civilian world.”
