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Recommendation 31
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Conduct a nationwide electrification skills needs assessment and develop a comprehensive plan addressing gaps.
Recommendation
Ministers must communicate clearly to industry their expectations on the rollout of energy and electrification infrastructure to meet Government policy objectives in a timely fashion. In tandem with this, we recommend that the Government conduct a nationwide electrification skills needs assessment across all relevant sectors, so as to inform a comprehensive plan which ought to include robust policies for addressing skills gaps. The Government should also take an active role, through promotion and funding and deployment of development and training programmes, the promotion of electrical education colleges in each region and the delivery of clear career pathways for skilled roles.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government has established the Clean Energy Workforce Office to coordinate skills activity and improve data on the UK's clean energy workforce, which will include monitoring the labor market, but does not explicitly commit to a specific nationwide electrification skills needs assessment or the full range of suggested training and education programmes.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
Accepted in Part
Recognising the critical workforce challenges within the energy sector transition, the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has set up the Office for Clean Energy Jobs (“the Office”) to focus on developing skills and providing training to the workforce in core energy and net zero sectors. We are building on the progress that the Green Jobs Delivery Group made under the previous Government, including sectoral workforce assessments which included Electricity Networks. The Office is reviewing the workforce assessments and will work with industry to update our data to ensure we have an understanding of the skills we need to deliver our mission to make the UK a clean energy superpower.
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