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Employers

Skills Development Scotland can help you to get the best out of your people. Our employer services range from funding for employee training and training plan development to PACE redundancy support.

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Learning Providers

Work with Skills Development Scotland to reach new learners. Become an ILA Scotland approved learning provider or help us to deliver national training programmes for the benefit of individuals across Scotland.

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Individuals

Whatever you want to do, do it well. Skills Development Scotland offers careers advice, on-the-job training and funding for learning at every stage of your career.

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Catalysing real and positive change

When Skills Development Scotland was launched in April 2008, it marked the start of a step change in the delivery of careers, skills and training services in Scotland. In Skills Development Scotland we are tasked with catalysing real and positive change in Scotland's skills performance by linking skills supply and demand more effectively and helping people and organisations learn, develop and utilise these skills to greater effect.

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We're putting our strategy into action

Our vision is to be a catalyst for positive change in Scotland's skills performance. To achieve our purpose and vision, we have devised three goals, each with key strategies which articulate our unique contribution to the achievement of the Scottish Government's Economic Strategy (GES). In turn, each key strategy is delivered through key services and key strategic partnerships.

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Putting our strategy into practice

Our team is made up of 1400 people in a network of  public access centres and offices across Scotland. In our first two years of operation we have created a forward-looking organisational structure, recruited staff to complete our skills requirement and are now working to finalise and implement the systems, processes and programmes needed to support our strategy.

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Gabriel Mukanzu

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Gabriel Mukanzu moved to Clydebank from Zambia in 2002. Aged 15, he could hardly speak English but he attended Braidfield High School and gained...

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Megan Kelly

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19 year old Megan Kelly had become very disaffected with school in her last years there, but the Get Ready for Work programme helped...

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Darren Broadley

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Even when he was growing up in the village of Avonbridge, near Falkirk, Darren Broadley knew that his future lay with farming. Darren said:...

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