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What does a Training Council do?
Our primary purpose is to provide strategic information and advice to the State Training Board and the Department of Training and Workforce Development on industry workforce development and training needs including skill shortages. We make recommendations to support our industries skill development needs.
Funded by the Western Australian Department of Training and Workforce Development, our three core functions:
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Leadership role in promoting training to industry, including partnerships between industry and the training sector.
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Supporting innovation and workforce development.
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Provide forward looking advice to State and Federal Governments on training needs and priorities for public funding.
Industry Sectors
We cover a great number of industries. Click on the relevant industry below for more information:
Our job is to ensure that the Minister for Education and Training and the WA Government is fully informed on the workforce and skills needs of the food, fibre and timber industries. We do this by advising them of workforce skills and training issues impacting businesses.
We then advocate for policies and strategies that will help our industry source the right people with the right skills so that they can grow and prosper.
We can only do our job is you have your say. You need to tell us what issues you've had and give us suggestions on what needs to change.
GvW Suggestion: Tell us what challenges you've faced and provide us with ideas/suggestions on where change is needed.
Examples of what you could tell us are:
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Any problems you've had filling vacancies.
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Difficulties you've experienced in accessing training.
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What you think needs to be done to improve the skills of your industry.
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If you're a training provider, things that could be done to improve qualifications.
Issues/Suggestions/Change Register
Recent contributions received:
"We find it really difficult to get experienced log truck drivers. Some drivers think that because they've driven trucks up in the mines, that they know how to drive log trucks. But it is a different skill all together, particularly in the loading and unloading of the logs".
"As an employer, I find it difficult to know what my apprentice is being taught at TAFE. I don't know where he is up to so I don't know what I need to be showing him in our workshop so that he practices what he is being taught".
"Our clients are telling us that we need to deliver more content on environmental sustainability. They believe that there needs to be more training on the use of finite resources, energy and water consumption, and safe disposal of waste. They are saying that their workers need to be upskilled in these areas but the current training package doesn't focus on this to the degree that they are saying they need".