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Regional Economies
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Tallaganda Shire Economic Development Plan
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Client Need: Tallaganda Shire's community-based Economic Development Working Group won funding for an economic development strategy from the Federal Government's Rural Plan Program. The group selected SES to provide a strongly consultative strategic planning process that would combine economic profiling with a survey of the Shire's businesses and extensive consultation with active groups and individuals in the Shire.
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As at the end of April 2001 the information gathering and analysis phases had been completed - leading to production of a comprehensive Economic and Social Profile and a Business Profile (including analysis of the key issues affecting the Shire's businesses). A draft Economic Development Plan has been prepared highlighting four themes where there is scope and capacity for economic development in the Shire, and this draft is currently being reviewed by the community.
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Capital Region Strategic Planning
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Client Need: In the lead up to development of its 1998-2001 Strategic Regional Plan, the Capital Region Employment Council (the region's Area Consultative Committee (ACC)) needed an up-to-date assessment of trend and developments in the region's labour market. The ACC published the labour market overview as a companion to its Strategic Plan.
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In 1998 the ACC engaged SES to report on local, regional and national employment patterns and trends relying largely on Australian Bureau of Statistics national census and labour force survey data, and this report was revised and updated in 2001. Analysis revealed significant differences between regional and national trends in growth industries and age and gender balance of the labour force. Demographic changes, characteristics of workforces in different industries and vocational training options and patterns were also studied.
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In 1998 and 2001, as the Strategic Regional Plans were being prepared, SES also conducted a series of forums around the region gathering input on economic and employment development issues from community members in the smaller shires. Priorities identified through these forums fed into the both editions of the ACC's Strategic Plan.
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South East NSW labour market
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Client Need: The South East NSW ACC identified a need for much better local-level information on labour market and demographic trends across its five shires. The reports were published in November 1999 and have been distributed widely across the region.
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SES prepared the series of detailed community and labour market profiles for the ACC. The profiles cover demographic trends and projections, business formation, employment trends, unemployment trends and vocational training patterns for each of the region's five shires. Click here to view the profiles.
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Vocational Education and Training in Victoria
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Client Need: ACCs in Victoria teamed up to attract help in understanding and developing an agenda for their involvement in the State's Vocational Education and Training (VET) activities.
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As part of this long-run and wide-ranging project aimed at improving the capacity of Victorian ACCs to play a more active role in the VET sector, SES prepared labour market overviews for each of Victoria's 15 ACCs and presented the key findings to a state-wide workshop. The reports covered demographic trends, business formation and employment trends, with an emphasis on young people. The overviews also presented detailed regional data on apprentice and traineeship commencements.
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SES has extended this work for one of the outer-Melbourne ACCs by working with schools to produce a set of information for use with career-planning, and a tool to help schools target their VET programs to emerging labour market needs.
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Community Support for Trainees
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Client Need: The Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs identified a need for community-based support for young people undertaking New Apprenticeships (traineeships and apprenticeships). The Department asked a consortium based around the CREEDA Projects to develop, trial and evaluate community support processes around Australia.
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The Support Models Assisting New Apprenticeship Completions (SMANAC) project ran over 18 months and involved support model trials in four locations in three states. In partnership with CREEDA and other specialist consultants, SES helped build, test and evaluate community-driven approaches to help New Apprentices (trainees in this case) complete their traineeships. SES played a major role in developing the models to be trialed, co-ordinated one of the trial sites, prepared case studies of good practices already being used in regional areas, conducted the quantitative evaluation and was involved in the qualitative evaluation of the project.
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Capital Region exporters survey
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Client Need: The ACT & Region Chamber of Commerce and Industry developed an export development program to assist the Region's businesses expand their export activities. One of the first tasks was a survey of selected businesses in the Australian Capital Region on their involvement in exporting. The survey findings were used to determine the best mix of export-related training and information seminars and services in the Region.
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SES undertook the survey and analysis which included quantifying patterns of exporting - scale, share of turnover, destination countries, forecasts etc - and focused on training and support needs. The study analysed the different patterns of training and support needs of respondents by size, industry and whether or not they already export.
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