About Improve
Improve is the Sector Skills Council for Food
and Drink Manufacturing and Processing across
the UK and part of the Skills for Business
Network, sponsored by the Department for
Learning and Skills.
Improve was established July 2004 as the
recognised authority on skill development in the
UK Food and Drink Industry. Our vision is ‘to
deliver more profit to employers through
skills’. This is an ambitious aim and we already
have an ambitious programme of activity in place
to deliver the results. Improve will represent
and support the following sectors: |
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· Bakery
· Brewery
· Dairy
· Distillery
· Drinks Manufacturing
· Food Manufacturing and Processing
· Fresh Produce
· Meat and Poultry
· Seafish
· Confectionery |
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Improve will work with employers, training providers
and Government to improve productivity and
competitiveness in our industry across the UK. To do
this Improve will become the centre of excellence on
all information and research into employment matters
related to skills. We will also help recruit 118,000
new employees to the sector in the next eight years,
retain the 650,000 employees working in the industry
and develop the new and existing workforce’s skills.
For more information on Improve, our organisation
and our industry, please click here to download our
corporate brochure alternatively
please do not hesitate to contact us with your
questions on
info@improveltd.co.uk
Building the Bigger Picture
Improve have developed a new resource for Autumn
2006 to explain how the work Improve has
conducted in the past and the plans we are
developing for the future fit together to ‘Build
the Big Picture’ of skills and training in the
food and drink industry.
It will also demonstrate how the different
project work fit together as interdependent
activities that will address the skills needs of
the sector including:
·
SSA reform
·
Qualifications Reform
·
Developing Learning Frameworks
·
Skills Academy |
