Targeting Skills Needs in Regions Program Evaluation
Targeting Skills Needs in Regions (TSNR) was a Commonwealth program, initiated by COAG in February 2006. This regional program aimed to address the supply of skilled labour and to identify solutions to labour market needs in regions and industries of strategic importance to the Australian economy.
The program ran from July 2006 to June 2010.
In response to locally expressed needs, the projects funded under this program were diverse. Resources produced included:
- workforce development toolkits
- welcome/relocation packs for new arrivals in regional communities
- a guide on how to develop a shared labour pool
- business improvement plans
- training delivery resources
- new nationally recognised units of competency
- work/training pathways information
- recommendations for establishing school-based traineeships in aged care
- a checklist for choosing a training organisation for aged care service providers
- a virtual world environment for training in community services and health
- training rooms/trainer accommodation in remote Indigenous communities.
The report of the evaluation of the TNSR program includes summaries of all forty-one projects funded under the program as well as drawing a number of lessons which may be of interest to others engaging in similar work.