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Nuclear Skills Passport deemed highly desirable in tenders from 2010

Skills Academy Board Representatives have committed to making the Nuclear Skills Passport highly desirable in their tenders from 2010. This means that the Nuclear Skills Passport will increasingly become a key differentiator in contractor selection from 2010 onwards.

The concept of a Nuclear Skills Passport has been discussed by employers since early 2003. As the industry has developed and changed further with the advent of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, a growing nuclear deterrent programme and new Nuclear Build, the imperative of developing and maintaining a suitably skilled,
competent and qualified workforce has become ever more apparent.

Employers have clearly voiced the need for a workforce that are suitably skilled, flexible and have transferable skills to meet the peaks And troughs of demand - the Nuclear Skills Passport will provide a coherent, safe and time saving response to this demand.

Physically, the Skills Passport will aid in providing and sustaining a qualified andmobile workforce, with transferable skills, via an enabling, highly secure, IT platformhosting a number of applications that users will access via the web. The Nuclear Skills Passport will be able to provide all employees and contractors within the Nuclear Sector, including those fromlarge employers and SMEs, with a physical record of their industry specific training and qualifications that meet the agreed industry standards across the sector.