Feedback on Annual Update to Seafood Industry Skills Forecast

Our Role Establishing Skills Insight JSC

Skills Impact held a Skills Service Organisation (SSO) role between 2016 and 2022. In 2023 we established one of ten Job and Skills Councils (JSCs), after a submission to move into the role was backed by over 200 letters of support from a broad range of industry stakeholders. This new JSC, Skills Insight, has a broader scope to deliver outcomes that support a responsive VET system and a skilled and resilient national workforce. The industry coverage of Skills Insight is similar to our past coverage as a Skills Service Organisation.

We are seeking your feedback on information outlined in the Annual Update to the Aquaculture and Wild Catch IRC Skills Forecast and Proposed Schedule of Work (Skills Forecast).

This year’s Annual Update identifies specific changes to the industry environment over the past year. It highlights the impact of COVID-19, industry response and developments, including challenges around trade tensions. It also includes information about employers’ use of the national SFI Seafood Industry Training Package and qualifications, barriers to training, hiring apprentices and trainees, and reasons behind non-completion rates.

Substantial work was undertaken in 2018-19 to update skills standards and qualifications for the aquaculture and wild catch industry. This included work to incorporate the essential skills for biosecurity, regulation and compliance, and more recently (2019-20) addressing the skills gaps in underwater technologies and working with crocodiles. Research to date has shown no skills gaps in the skills standards and therefore no projects have been identified for 2021-22. If you are aware of any skills gaps requiring work please let us know.

Your feedback and input on the information outlined in this draft document is encouraged.

Feedback is being collected up until 16 April 2021.

The draft Annual Update will be submitted from the Aquaculture and Wild Catch Industry Reference Committee to the Australian Industry and Skills Committee (AISC) at the end of April, for their consideration.

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