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Consultation 3 30 Film in England FILM COUNCIL funding would enhance the commissions’ ability to deliver and would enable an effective partnership with the BFC. The FILM COUNCIL therefore wants to make new investment available to screen commissions to assist individual commissions achieve organisational stability, aid sector development and participate in an integrated regional planning process. 3.4.7 Training and Vocational Education in the English Regions Skillset, the NTO for Broadcast, Film, Video and Multimedia, has been extremely active over the last few years in establishing employer-led regional training consortia in the English regions. In recognition that FE and HE courses (whether purely academic or purely practical) have a key role in preparing people for work in the industry, and in supporting continuous development, Skillset also has a clear remit for vocational education. The following points summarise key issues relating to regional training consortia: ■ Regional training consortia mirror Skillset’s remit for broadcast, film, video and multimedia. Their remit therefore is broader than that of the FILM COUNCIL’s and geared to industry needs which extend to television and radio ■ Training consortia need to go through a process of “kite-marking” with Skillset to ensure national training standards and priorities are met ■ Based on their knowledge of each region’s skills shortages, training needs and skills development requirements, the training consortia ensure these needs are met through a variety of training measures for craft and technical personnel. This, in turn, enhances the region’s skills base, meets local business requirements and improves the competitive position of the region ■ Within each region, there is the obvious potential for a positive working relationship between training consortia, screen commissions and production funds ■ Relationships between RABs and training consortia are not always harmonious even though many RABs have worked hard to see a consortium established in their region. This tends to result from tensions between industrial or employer-led needs promoted by the consortia and culturally-led needs promoted by the RABs ■ Typically, regional training consortia are dependent upon a patchwork of funders which include local authorities, broadcasters, ESF and ERDF structural funds. Funding is inevitably short term and thus unstable. The result is continuous fundraising initiatives which divert the consortia from doing their job ■ For a variety of reasons, but principally the absence of core revenue funding, a number of training consortia have found it difficult to sustain their organisations and two have ceased to operate in their original form. This is currently the case in the North West and the North East. Skillset is working actively to put alternative arrangements in place but the lack of core funding remains a key problem.
Skillset has confirmed that it wishes to consider to what degree the functions of regional training consortia might be stabilised and enhanced if there is to be a more formal link between the consortia and other film and moving image organisations in individual regions (especially screen commissions and regional production funds). Skillset and the FILM COUNCIL propose that this is tested on a region-by-region basis through detailed feasibility studies commissioned by the emerging regional groupings, in association with the FILM COUNCIL and Skillset. The FILM COUNCIL wants to make additional investment available to training consortia in partnership with Skillset. This will assist organisational stability and sector development and enable the training sector to participate in establishing integrated regional planning. A briefing paper on Skillset’s partnerships in the English regions is given as Appendix I. 3.5 Written submissions Written evidence reinforced many of the issues, which had arisen throughout the consultation programme. It also brought forward a large number of very detailed points which are being addressed by the FILM COUNCIL on a one-to-one basis. Film in England 31 3 Consultation
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