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SfL canvasses industry for formal support
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By Louise Cole SKILLS FOR LOGISTICS (SfL) enters its relicensing process this week, and is asking the industry for its endorsement.
The six-month process, which assesses SfUs delivery against government targets and the degree of engagement it has with the logistics industry, culminates with a request for ministerial approval in September.
If SfL fails to be relicensed, it is likely the training and careers organisation will either be tepurposed' essentially put under new management, which will overhaul its performance or amalgamated with another sector skills council such as the passenger transport agency GoSkills. Chief executive Dr Mick Jackson, while optimistic that SIL will pass scrutiny, says: -Merging with another sector skills council is the nightmare scenario as far as representation goes."
Sfl. was set up as one of 25 skills councils intended to change the UK's industrial training provision from supplier-led to demand-led.
Jackson says SIL has spent the past two years putting into place the infrastructure needed to create the Qualifications and Credits Framework (QCF) for logistics and this will be completed in 2010, giving the industry the opportunity to tailor courses for individual needs. "We've presented our business plan to the National Audit Office and we are ahead of target for qualifications earned and apprenticeships undertaken," says Jackson. "Eighteen months ago, I wouldn't have been confident, but I now know where we're going."
SfL is asking for endorsements from a range of logistics trade associations. The UK Warehousing Association (UKWA) is working on a closer relationship with SfL and Roger Williams, UKWA chief executive, says: "If it doesn't achieve relicensing. we will he shoved in with another sector."
Freight Transport Association (ETA) communications director Jo Tanner says: "The FTA fully supports its re-licensing."
• To support Skills For Logistics, send an entail to mick.jackson@ skillsforlogistics.org with the word `relicensing' in the subject line.