SKILL EXCHANGE UK

An independent, Not for Profit professional group providing a collective ‘voice’ in direct support of ‘skill exchange and mobility’ and aims to encourage the expansion and development of UK HR & Employment policies and process across private and public sectors.

 

In a changing world is it essential that there is shared vision and co-ordinated planning to find ways to implement essential changes to the world of work.

 

Skill Exchange UK is a formal and qualified body of individuals (partners) representing key areas of work, skill retention and employment. Extending new ideas, opinions and specific programmes to face the challenges presented in today’s complex world of employment.

 

Objectives

  • To achieve a significant reduction in UK skill wastage.
  • To work to increase connectivity between employers looking to cut costs or add skills through the transfer and sharing of employees through secondment, redeployment, career development, re-training or transfer.
  • To provide leadership and direction for other employing UK organisation to grasp advantage from skill pools, UK employment policy and Union support in the mobility of skilled individuals.

 

Skill Exchange UK (SKILL-X) will create white papers, press opinion and develop ideas & policy recommendations on a variety of employment, skill retention, mobile and flexible working issues.

 

We are looking for representatives from organisations throughout the UK, so that our aims and objectives might better create a national voice behind our skill exchange campaign.

 

Interested parties should in the first instance contact:

phil@staffshare.co.uk

 

 

 

Skill Exchange UK Ltd is an independent, non political, not for profit organisation.

 

 John Taylor, Chief Executive of ACAS (Arbitration & Conciliation Service) said in June 2010:

"Unemployment in any form is damaging and wasteful. The impact on employees and the economy has long term implications and the cycle of recruitment and redundancy is a practice that we should be trying to change. "



Sir Steve Bullock, chair of LG Group Workforce Programme Board, said in Feb. 2011:

"The workforce of the future will be different and look for new things from employers. The psychological contract needs to be re-established and re-negotiated. The Skill Exchange Partnership can help explore how councils and other local employers can work together for the benefit of all, to address the workforce issues of the future”



David Lennan former director general of the British Chambers of Commerce and current Skill Exchange Partnership director Feb. 2011:

"Skill sharing is an evolving area of HR and employment policy. Employers often react too late to reduce costs and talented, trained and valuable staff are too often the first and softest target. The Skill Exchange Partnership intends to raise debate and awareness, at the local and national level amongst enlightened employers, business membership and support agencies, as well as the trade unions, to make this new approach more widely available as a serious alternative."