IoC Trailblazer
Express delivery qualification is waiting for the Minister's sign-off to start, but news across the wider transport sector is good for apprenticeships in truck, warehouse and roads.
Transport Minister Nusrat Ghani, ‘The transport industry is leading the way in unlocking brilliant careers and tackling the need for the logisticians of the future.’
TfL boss Mike Brown chaired and opened the event with apprentices from the transport sector. Knights of Old truck driver, Jonathan Field took the top truck spot showcasing apprenticeships in LGV. Joel Hadfield was the warehouse and storage apprentice, working Manchester at Amphorea Packaging, he was trained by MANTRA learning.
Milestone qualification for Express courier sector.
Hold the front page, Institute of Couriers Chairman Carl Lomas announced at the Microlise transport Conference, May 16 to the largest audience of transport professionals in the UK. Express courier Trailblazer is published today.
This will bring levy-funded training to front line final mile drivers.
IFA Trailblazer launch for express courier drivers
Five thousand expected in first year for levy paid twelve month qualification in Express final mile delivery.
Three years in the making, employer built for next generation final mile delivery operators.
The training is already indexed and mapped, find it on the IOC web.
Thousands of depots at sortation round-table, IFA Coventry May 9th 2018
Express trailblazer employer group met in strength on May 9th at the Coventry HQ of the Institute for Apprenticeships. Thousands of express sortation depots were at the table to talk knowledge, skills and behaviour, developing vision for a new trailblazer standard for the sortation hub operatives in the express sector.
IOC Chairman Carl Lomas, sec of the DfE Inst for Apprenticeships Express employer group talks employment status and levy qualifications.
Lomas met Ben from Yodel to explain the latest position of apprenticeship qualifications for the Express sector and take a broad look at the IOC Taylor response document.
Capturing his thoughts - It’s a sector-wide issue, there is a lot of material on the IOC web worth a look, easy summaries for both Taylor, the IOC response and the March 2018 Good Work document response. There is also a full bubble on the express qualifications where the first delivery that uses levy is very close at both manager and frontline driver level.
The Institute for Apprenticeships IFA announced this Friday the appointment of Robert Nitsch CBE as its new Chief Operating Officer. Robert is a professional engineer with a strong background in logistics. Major General, he has been the Army’s Personnel Director for the past three years with significant leadership roles in his military career.
Trailblazer employer group chairs teamed up for Lindsay McCurdy's national levy conference at Coventry. Much talk of deadlines and availability of end-point assessments.
Carl Lomas, ‘Express level 2 delivery operative still awaits final editorial clearance, the news may be any day.’
All-in logistics theme, passenger transport, waste management and education from Jo North.
The conference was driven by providers and delivered a wealth of information for employers; how to match employer size to provider size, scale up and work with the digital accounts from levy payments.
What is logistics? How does it fit in the sector, Supply Chain, Transport Logistics and Express. BIS, DfE IfA, like others outside the sector are confused with our terminology.
Supply chain is about purchase, Logistics is about transport, road, rail air and sea. Road is vehicles and storage, Express is about final mile, postcode sortation, mail and final mile delivery.
Mick Jackson from the Skills Council set three clear streams for logistics many years ago for the Sector Stairway, they remain clear today and well signposted. LGV for heavy Transport, Warehouse and Storage and thirdly, Mail, express and courier.
IOC will be taking the express sector message to the review.
Employment, self employment, lifestyle workers and more in the mix as RSA boss Mathew Taylor is set to review in detail the present and future views of employment in England.
Check the 2015 review in the DWP section of the IoC web here
What defines a worker in the express sector ? Help answer the Government's Taylor review May 2nd
The express sector must be heard; IOC have called a Heads of Industry meeting for the afternoon of May 2nd in the City of London.
Fellows are asked to set their diary for May and help answer the question: What defines a worker in the express sector?
IoC to undertake an Independent Review and submit an IoC Members' Finding report to the Taylor Review
Background
The Taylor review is to consider how employment practices need to change in order to keep pace with modern business models. The review will consider the implications of new forms of work, driven by digital platforms, for employee rights and responsibilities, employer freedoms and obligations, and our existing regulatory framework surrounding employment.
15% of those working in the UK’s labour market now self-employed. A great proportion of IoC members operate business models that may engage with independent workers or those that could be deemed to work within the ‘gig economy'– short-term, temporary engagement that is increasingly sought by people through mobile phone apps & other platforms when they want to work. These roles can include driving and delivery.
IoC - Independent Review Approach
An online survey will be launched week commencing 24th April to all IoC members. In addition, an option will be provided to members for a telephone interview if there are any of the Taylor Review themes (6 themes - detail after Read More) that you want to discuss / capture your views on in more detail.
IoC will also be attending multiple Taylor Review consultation events prior to co-ordinating a final submission report to the Review on our members' response to the key themes of the Taylor Report.
Please take the time for you, or a nominated member of your organisation, to complete the survey or get in contact to arrange a telephone interview with one of the IoC Taylor Review Team.
The IOC will also be holding a Heads of Industry round table meeting on the afternoon of May 2nd in the City of London, call Tracey Worth for your place.
The IoC report will be submitted prior to the 17th May so do not miss your chance to be heard!
Express Manager Degree Apprenticeship Trailblazer workshop for Express employers sits at Heathrow.
Latest version of standard updated from January one-to-one employer meetings and the Heathrow employer workshop.
Help review the standard before submission on Feb 23
There have been a number of operational one-to-one meetings with employers and workshops north and south leading to the present draft standard, it's not too late to have your say and your input is very welcome to the group. V2 Standard here.
Express Trailblazer chair Justin Moore was at the Heathrow table to talk level six degree apprenticeships for the final mile, home delivery managers of the future.
This is about delivery, express delivery, final mile, delivering to customer chain in an evolving market of client requirements from e-retail.
IOC chair and Express employer group secretary Carl Lomas,
Express manager is not about storage, warehouse or supply purchase, this is about fulfilling final mile transport demand to customer for an evolving, new and exploding sector of logistics.
Hosting the workshop, Tracy Aust, Principal West Thames College comments
These trailblazers provide a fantastic opportunity to really meet the needs of one of the fastest growing sectors. From provision at level 2 through to provision at level 6, they offer a career path for those just entering the sector as well as providing opportunities and career progression for those employees that we already have working within the sector. The on-the-job training, provides the perfect mix to earn as you learn!
DWP Logistics national team headed by Alex Farkas take a look at Express.
IOC chair Carl Lomas delivered the pineapple presentation to DWP regional managers to showcase exploding figures in Express, home delivery, final mile logistics. Retail shift from high street to home delivery was at the heart of the presentation using IMRG figures explaining trends of workforce move as shoppers changed to internet shop. Lomas talked Trailblazer from level 2 to 6, a job for life in an emerging sector of logistics as shopping trend moves from high street to e-retail internet shopping and home delivery.
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