Skills Survey Results Are Out!

The results of the annual skills survey have been released by Opportunity Peterborough. The 2012 survey saw a 50% increase on last year’s response rate and was completed by 223 Peterborough businesses

The study has highlighted a number of key points. For the second year running, businesses listed employability, literacy and numeracy skills as the priority areas for improvement in the city’s young people.

However, the results also revealed that Peterborough’s young people are beginning to progress in these areas, which is an encouraging sign that the Peterborough Skills Service, set up to respond to feedback from this survey, is working.

Another key factor is the importance of developing apprenticeships within the workforce. With the increase in university fees and the raising of the education participation age, there are likely to be more young people than ever looking for apprenticeships.

Neil Darwin, chief executive at Opportunity Peterborough, said

The survey has again given us some great insight into the city’s skills levels and we’re grateful to all those businesses that took part. The results show that we’ve taken great strides in improving the work readiness of Peterborough’s young people, but that there’s still work to be done to ensure skills gaps are filled. We’ll now use our analysis to help influence what provision is delivered in Peterborough

To read the full report go to: www.opportunity peterborough.co.uk