Bristol City Council

By participating in the Project, Bristol City Council seeks to:

• Promote and enhance a culture of lifelong learning and establish Personal Development as an important function within that culture
• Take the first steps towards a Council-wide IAG service for staff in order to enhance staff development activities as a means of contributing to staff retention

United Bristol Healthcare Trust (UBHT)

By participating in the Project, UBHT seeks to:

• Contribute to the retention of staff by enhancing the psychological contract between employer and employee
• Address basic skills issues among clinically non-qualified staff by stimulating personal development through the promotion of an internal IAG service

North Bristol NHS Trust

By participating in the Project, North Bristol NHS Trust seeks to:

• Contribute to the retention of staff by enhancing the psychological contract between    employer and employee
• Address basic skills issues among clinically non-qualified staff by stimulating   personal development through the promotion of an internal IAG service

Wincanton plc

By participating in the Project, Wincanton plc, Portbury Depot seeks to:

• Enhance staff development activities by actively promoting a Lifelong Learning culture
• Encourage staff to consider their future roles within the company as a whole, rather than merely within their existing skills and occupational roles

Remploy, Bristol

By participating in the Project, Remploy Ltd seeks to:

• Address cultural issues relating to the psychological contract between employee and employer
• Empower and encourage staff to overcome barriers to their personal advancement through pursuit of personal development particularly in relation to basic skills and confidence building

The Beacon Centre – St George Community College

By participating in the Project,  St George Community College seeks to:

• Enhance employee development activities by extending involvement of services in information and advice on learning and work to staff
• Champion this role by taking I & A services off-site to local employees

DIAS

By participating in the Project, DIAS seeks to:

• Provide a service in information and advice on learning and work to their client group and staff
• Enhance staff development activities and raise awareness of issues in training provision and occupational choice among staff

The Better Food Company

By participating in the Project, The Better Food Company seeks to:

• Enhance aspects of the company’s activities in relation to the aim of working for and with the local community
• Develop the skills of a key staff member to support the delivery of information and advice on learning and work and explore how these skills further inform customer services practice

BRAVE

Advising mainly small and micro businesses on start up and general entrepreneurial issues, BRAVE sees IAG as a useful means of allowing an alternative to self-employment for clients who decide that it is not for them. IAG resource material and software can also provide background information SMEs who wish to employ people in occupational roles with which they are unfamiliar. A learning helpline telephone is also available for their use.

By participating in the Project, BRAVE seeks to:

• Provide learning and development for those contemplating self-employment
• Provide information and guidance regarding career development to those who decide not to pursue the self-employment option

Future Developments

Basic Skills/IAG in the Workplace – The future of IAG in the Workplace may be seen as bound closely to Basic Skill in the Workplace. It is worth remembering that a central role for IAG in the workplace has been to facilitate identification of Basic Skills needs among the workforce.

HMP Leyhill – Initial meetings have been arranged to explore how IAG and Basic Skills training for key staff may help to identify staff basic skills needs and provide basic skills training to levels 1 & 2.