Why pick VCA to be your Skills Development Facilitator?

These Skills Development plans must be forwarded to the Sector Education and Training Authority (SETA). Creating training and development for the various job roles within a business can become a difficult task.

However, with SDL facilitation, a company can ensure that they are investing in skills that will benefit both the employee and the business in the long run.

Choosing VCA as your Skills Development Facilitator ensures:

• An enhanced skills development strategy
• Assistance with completing and submitting your Workplace Skills Plan (WSP) and Annual Training Report (ATR)
• Advise on and assistance on submitting any Learnership and other discretionary grant applications that may be available

VCA have been involved in Skills Development since before its inception in South Africa. We have done almost 14 000 Skills Development interventions nationally.

Through the years, we have been fortunate enough to secure many tenders for doing SDF work from various SETAs. These have included FASSET, ISETT, ETDP, SASSETA, FOODBEV, MQA, W&R SETA and we have received awards for this work. We currently have clients for SDF services in all Provinces of SA.

About the Skills Development Act and Skills Development Levies Act

A SETA (Sector Education and Training Authority) is a body that governs the training for the sector. There are SETA's for the different sectors. According to the Skills Development Act and Skills Development Levies Act, organisations with an annual payroll of R500 000 or more should be registered for SDL and submit a skills plan to the SETA each year.

There are some requirements that need to be me in order to claim back the maximum of 50% of the SDL paid, such as the organization needs to appoint an SDF and register said person with the SETA, they need to submit the Workplace Skills Plan and Annual Training Report to their SETA by the 30th of June of each year. Companies with 50 or more employees need to establish a Skills Development Committee and consult with the Committee on the development and implementation of the plan.

On-the-job (workplace based) training as well as training from external (accredited and non-accredited training providers) are recognised as training courses for the purposes of the skills plan. Most companies conduct training already (the compulsory fire fighting and first aid training, health and safety representative training, fork lift training etc.) but do not claim back from the SETA. Many participating organizations regard the money that they do recoup for SDL as their annual training budget.

The benefits of Skills Development

With the right facilitation skills and proper development strategy businesses can benefit from SDL in the following ways:

• Investing in your employees can boost employee morale
• Enhanced training can lead to improved performance
• A company can claim up to 40% of SDL money paid in a year back from the SETA

Hayley just completed her tenth   annual visit to the Eastern Cape. With the most superb and wonderful   client base, it makes her job so worth it! She is seen here with Dotty, from Response Group Trendline.