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Skills Australia is an independent statutory body, providing advice to the Minister for Education, Employment and Workplace Relations on Australia’s current, emerging and future workforce skills needs and workforce development needs.
A key priority for the body is to signal to government and industry, important changes of direction required in VET services and the labour market generally, to maintain workforce participation and to grow productivity. Addressing Australia’s long-term skills shortages is vital to tackling inflationary pressures.
The functions of Skills Australia include:
- analysing current and emerging skills needs across industry sectors
- assessing evidence from commissioned research and industry stakeholders to inform Australia’s skills and workforce development needs
- distributing information from research and consultations with stakeholders widely to enable entrepreneurs, businesses and workers to have the necessary information to inform their training and employment decisions
- providing Government with recommendations on current and future skills needs to help inform Government decisions to encourage skills formation and drive ongoing reforms to the education and training sector, including on priorities for the investment of public funds
- establishing and maintaining relationships with relevant state bodies to inform advice on current and future demands for skills and facilitate alignment of priorities for responses to skills needs.
Futher information is available on the Skills Australia website.
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