Careerforcesupporting social

justice

The need - has it changed?2008 11,280 not for profit social services institutions31,480 paid employed staff 10% with a qualification

The challenge is to add an 0

100%

1. Careerforce - what do we do?

2. The NZQA qualifications review

3. Workplace based training

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Industry Training Organisations

• ITOs are the connection between:

workforce skill requirements and developing a trained workforce

employer skill needs and employee training

school and employment/workplace education

• ITOs cover all NZ industries e.g. agriculture, building, hospitality, tourism, retail, sport, financial services, security….

Our sectors

Youth workSocial

servicesHome &

community support

Mental health & addiction support

Healthcare services

Disability support

Cleaning & pest

managementAged support

• Set, register and moderate standards (qualifications through NZQA)

• Arrange training with employers and employees

• Our mission ’is to support sustainable improvements to the health and wellbeing of New Zealanders through workforce training’

• Funded by TEC

Training for quality

Outcome: Better wellbeing for all

TrainingQualified workers

Quality support

Our 12,000+ traineesEthnicity• Māori 19%• Pasifika 8%• NZ European 57%• Other 16%

Gender• Women 84%

Other• No qualifications 25%• Working less than 30 hours a week 44%• Training in over 1000 workplaces

au

whānau

whānaunga

whānaungatanga

person

family

community

The sector and person-centred in 2009 – looking backwards and forward…

NZ qualifications & their potential

Our children, our choice: priorities for policy. Recommendation 9

“The MoE require all home-based educarers to be either qualified teachers, or attend & complete a required set of professional learning opportunities for home-based provision, which could be offered as modules toward an NZQA certificate in home-based Early Childhood Care & Education.”Child Poverty Action Group

Supporting social justice

• Recognise and respond to vulnerability in a health or wellbeing setting

• Demonstrate knowledge of child abuse

• Describe and implement a person-centred approach in a health or wellbeing setting

NZ Qualifications Review

Principle“To develop a qualification suite that enables our

workforce to better meet the needs of our clients, family/whānau, now and in the future.

Clients needs will be forefront in our discussions”

In partnership with Mātauranga Māori Review the link to whānau ora

• Qualifications belong to NZ • not education providers• no more national or local qualifications

• One qualification - multiple programmes

• Qualifications are described in terms of graduate outcomes • do, be & know• descriptions include education and employment pathways

• Earn their place on the framework

Programme of study or

training

Assessment

Qualification

Application to develop

NZQAEvaluation

Application for approval

NZQAEvaluation

Qualification not approved Qualification not approved

Qualification approved

Qualification listed NZQF

Qualification review

Programme developed &

approved

Qualification development process

Qualifications review

Workforce development & workplace learning

Sector and education

scan Transition readiness

Organisation planning -

workforce development

goals

Training and assessment

infrastructure

So what? Evidence of skills

utilisation & value

add

How?

• Commit to developing a Workforce Development Plan for your organisation

• Develop a sustainable training and assessment infrastructure

• Use Skills Map to identify what to cover in your training

• Measure the difference training is making

Services to support workplace training infrastructure

• Workforce planning• Educator support• Literacy support• Assessor training • Moderation and professional development• Reporting progress – iportal• Evidence base

Opportunity to influence training delivery

Note to self

Must take up this workforce development opportunity

Contact:gill.genet@careerforce.org.nz