Provider Survey - Local Skills Improvement Plan

September 2023

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* 1. Please provide us with your primary contact details

Name

Company

Address

Address 2

City/Town

State/Province

ZIP/Postal Code

Country

Email Address

Phone Number

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* 2. How often will you host employer engagement events in the contract year 2023/2024?

1 per term

1-5 per academic year

5-8 per academic year

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* 3. What are the main barriers you face when your teams engage with employers?

Employers cannot afford time to spend with you

Employers are not interested in engaging with you

You do not have funding that the employer needs

Your staff need more training to engage with employers more strategically

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* 4. Are you finding it difficult to recruit fully trained and occupationally competent staff?

YES

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* 5. What is the biggest challenge you face when employing staff?

Cannot compete with the sector pay gap

Not receiving enough applications for your advertised posts

Applicants do not meet the calibre required

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* 6. We would like to understand more about AEB provision in the county

We have a procured contract

We have a non procured contract

We have both procured and non procured contracts

We sub contract AEB from a prime

We do not have an AEB contract

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* 7. We would like to know more about procured AEB contract

Our organisation submitted a successful bid

Our organisation submitted an unsuccessful bid

Our organisation did not submit a bid

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* 8. We would like to know if you use sub-contractors for your AEB provision

They are Essex based only providers

They are national providers that deliver specialist provision in Essex.

We do not subcontract any provision

N/A as we do not have a contract

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* 9. Does you subcontracted provision duplicate what you offer?

There is no duplication at all

Yes – small percentage

Yes - large percentage

N/A as we do not have a contract

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* 10. Do you deliver Apprenticeships?

Yes