national skills councils

As pivotal change agents within the national training system, the mandate of Australia's Industry Skills Councils is to bring together industry, educators and governments and unite them on a common industry-led agenda for action on skills and workforce development.

Industry Skills Councils are:

  • recognised and funded by the Australian Government
  • governed by independent, industry led boards
  • not-for-profit companies limited by guarantee

Specifically, the formal roles of Industry Skills Councils involve:

  • providing integrated industry intelligence and advice to Skills Australia, government and enterprises on workforce development and skills needs
  • actively supporting the development, implementation and continuous improvement of high quality training and workforce development products and services including training packages
  • providing independent skills and training advice to enterprises, including matching identified training needs with appropriate training solutions; working with enterprises, employment service providers, Registered Training Organisations and government to allocate training places under the Productivity Places Program
  • engaging with State and Territory Governments, State and Territory industry advisory bodies and peak representative bodies in their area of industry coverage.

Training packages are developed and reviewed with industry by a national Industry Skills Council. The national Industry Skills Councils for the Creative and Leisure Industries are: