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Federation of Awarding Bodies,
Registered address:
75 Westminster Bridge Road,
London,
SE1 7HS,
Registration number: 0435560
Sector Skills Councils (SSCs)
Sector Skills Councils (SSCs) are state-sponsored, employer-led organisations that cover specific economic sectors in the United Kingdom. They have four key goals:
- to reduce skills gaps and shortages
- to improve productivity
- to boost the skills of their sector workforces
- to improve learning supply.
SSCs achieve these aims by contributing to the development of National Occupational Standards, the design and approval of Apprenticeship frameworks, brokering Sector Skills Agreements and creating Sector Qualification Strategies.
The Sector Skills Development Agency (SSDA) was formerly responsible for funding, supporting and monitoring Sector Skills Councils (SSCs) and for overseeing industries that fell outside an SSC footprint. From 1st April 2008, the SSDA was replaced by the Alliance of Sector Skills Councils and the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES).