Saxon Air – Trusted non-scheduled aviation leader.
Alex Durand Saxon Air’s Managing Director explains how the LSIP has benefitted them.
“We’ve been involved with the LSIP from the outset, contributing to early workshops and now chairing the Norfolk and Suffolk Green Skills Sector LSIP. We’ve also been involved with feedback meetings with Norfolk Chambers of Commerce and the Dept for Education. We’ve also taken learning and feedback from this to the Department for Transport Aviation Skills forums”.
“It’s the most important skills development work we’ve seen, for the first time taking a business led approach to determine the skills that need developing for the workplace. It’s also helped shape a more collaborative approach between local authorities and businesses, which is needed to bridge the chasm that exists between skills the education system is(n’t) producing and those skills needed in the current and future workplace”.
“The LSIP adds value in terms of identifying the skills that need developing, but the process itself has the potential to be transformative. Businesses have had good reason to be frustrated with the lack of suitable vocational or work ready skills being produced by the education system , but it’s also highlighted areas where businesses aren’t getting involved or investing – apprenticeships, training budgets, engagement with schools/colleges/training providers. Where the LSIP process can work best is getting the full range of stakeholders to do more and in closer collaboration”.
