Sugar Milling Project Completion

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.

While the sugar milling industry regularly undertakes training of their staff in-house, in recent years they have not made use of registered training organisations (RTOs) for delivery or assessment.

During extensive consultation with industry about the current qualifications and skills standards for sugar milling, industry experts have indicated that the qualifications, units of competency and skill sets will not be used for the delivery of formal training in the future.

The Food, Beverage and Pharmaceutical IRC responsible for this project has informed the Department of Education Skills and Employment (DESE) about this situation. The DESE is now considering the early conclusion of this project and if this is the case all components within scope of this project will be deleted (archived) from the national training register (training.gov.au).

Qualifications, skill sets and units of competency will remain available on the national training register in their current form for reference only, but will not be updated or available for use by RTOs.

Please note that there are four units of competency that will not to be deleted, as they out of scope of this project and sit within both current food and beverage processing (FBP) and meat processing (AMP) qualifications and need to be retained:

FBPSUG2022 Operate a waste water treatment system
FBPSUG2024 Perform standard tests on cane samples
FBPSUG3007 Perform factory control tests
FBPSUG3008 Analyse and convey workplace information.

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Our Role Establishing Skills Insight JSC

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Sugar Milling Project Completion

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