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News Release from: The Manufacturer Live
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 05 July 2006
Top manufacturers to debate UK skills
shortage
Senior representatives from the UK's most prominent manufacturers are set to tackle the problems of attracting, developing and retaining staff at the next meeting of The Manufacturing Alliance.
Senior representatives of some of the UK's most prominent manufacturing businesses are set to tackle the problems of 'Attracting, Developing and Retaining Staff' at the next meeting of The Manufacturing Alliance, to be held at Unipart Advanced Logistics in Cowley on 19th July 2006 An exclusive network for senior management in manufacturing, The Manufacturing Alliance has brought together an impressive line-up of speakers to dissect the issue of skills shortage and what plans are being made to deliver the workforce of the future
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 20 Jul 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Keynote speaker at the event will be John Greatrex, Unipart's Group HR director who, alongside David Bell, Group HR director at JCB, Matt Stripe, senior HR business partner at Nestle UK and Alan McLenaghan, site director at Saint Gobain Glass, will debate the following.
* The image of manufacturing as a vocation and how it can be improved.
* How to equip the 100,00 people annually shed from manufacturing with new skills.
* The challenges of providing competitive benefits packages.
* Whether the Government is doing enough, in terms of state education or training to provide the necessary skills bases at all levels.
Glen White, group chief executive of Conquest Business Media, the company behind 'The Manufacturer' magazine and founders of The Manufacturing Alliance, believed it is not.
"I hope this event will go some way to addressing the serious problems that lie ahead unless we replace an ageing workforce with well-trained and skilled employees, from apprentice level upwards.
Employers need to act now because it is clear that the Government, despite its good intentions, is quite happy to plan and plan but never actually deliver an adequate support network.
It is time UK manufacturing cut through the red tape and worked out how it plans to stay competitive.
Our speakers will certainly have some ideas and I expect this to be a lively debate.".
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