Thanks for Your Input on Proposed Projects & Industry Developments

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.

Thank you to those who provided feedback on the draft Annual Update to the IRC Skills Forecast and Proposed Schedule of Work (Skills Forecast), including training package projects that have been proposed for 2021-22 and descriptions of changes in the industry environment.

This year’s Annual Update includes information about employers’ use of training packages and qualifications, barriers to hiring apprentices and trainees, and reasons behind non-completion rates and alternative training being delivery. It also includes information about employers’ use of the national AHC Agriculture, Horticulture, Conservation and Land Management Training Package and qualifications, barriers to training, hiring apprentices and trainees, and reasons behind non-completion rates. Details of the proposed projects are available below.

The draft Annual Update will be submitted from the Amenity Horticulture, Landscaping, Conservation and Land Management Industry Reference Committee (IRC) and the Agriculture and Production Horticulture IRC to the Australian Industry and Skills Committee (AISC) at the end of April, for their consideration.

View the Annual Update

Proposed Schedule of Work

2021-22

Project 1: Review of Unit Sectors

This project continues the full review of the AHC Training Package outlined in the Skills Forecast and Program of Works 2019 – 2022. Full details relating to rationale and background were addressed in the submission in 2019 and approved by the AISC. This submission will focus on matters relevant to the Unit Sectors to be addressed in Year 3.

The Unit sectors to be covered by the project during 2021 – 2022 are:

Cluster 1: Community and common work-related units
Cluster 2: Composting and Organic Production
Cluster 3: Permaculture
Cluster 4: Livestock
Cluster 5: Indigenous

Project 2: Water Trading

Access to water resources it vital to Australian farmers and it is equally vital that farming communities understand the water market. Water literacy in education, including VET, is one recommendation of the Keelty Report into management of Murray-Darling Basin water resources. The proposal for this project is to develop up to five units and one skill set to capture the skills needed for the acquisition, management and trading of water within the agricultural, pastoral and production horticultural sectors.

2022-23