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Wyre Forest LMI Report 2019 THEWYRE SKILLS FOREST GUIDE 2019 WYRE FOREST THE PEOPLE. THE CAREERS. THE WORKFORCE. 1 WYREWelcome FOREST to The Skills Guide 2019 This is the second year that Worcestershire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and Worcestershire County Council have developed these guides to the local skills network. We’ve created these documents to help provide local students and parents with a greater understanding of the academic opportunities and employment opportunities available in Worcestershire. Our reports provide a wealth of information from all six district areas in Worcestershire, with a summary of the top industry sectors and the largest employers in each area. With our knowledge of the local employment trends and the skills that businesses require to continue their growth, we are able to help younger generations to understand what the jobs of the future will look like and require. Gary Woodman The Skills Guide forms part of the work carried out by the Worcestershire LEP’s Careers Hub team, which helps to Chief Executive bring together our county’s businesses with local schools and colleges. By working together with employers, schools Worcestershire LEP and colleges in their careers advice and planning, we aim to ensure that our younger generations will have the relevant skills for the future needs of local business. To help further improve the education of our younger people, we’ve launched a campaign for ‘Creating our Future Workforce’. The campaign aims to tackle the county’s skills gap and support businesses to get involved with developing Worcestershire’s skilled workforce of the future, by working more closely together with educational establishments. Businesses of all sizes in Worcestershire are getting involved with ‘Creating our Future Workforce’ through a variety of pathways, whether it’s attending assembly talks at schools, supporting young people with mock interviews and CV workshops, or offering a young person a work experience or internship opportunity. We are encouraging more businesses to help play their part in this campaign and to email [email protected] to find out more. For more information on Worcestershire’s latest skills support and initiatives, I would encourage you to visit our Skills 4 Worcestershire website www.skills4worcestershire.co.uk 2 WYRE FOREST WYRE FOREST KEY INFO TOTAL POPULATION: 100,715 (50.6%) 51,007 49,708 (49.4%) OVER 65 24,578 WORKING AGE UNDER 16 58,746 17,391 White 97.2% Mixed/Multiple Ethnic Groups 1.0% ASIAN / BRITISH ASIAN 1.4% Black / Black British 0.2% KIDDERMINSTER Other 0.1% (SEE PAGE 7 FOR TOWN DATA) H TOP 10 INDUSTRY SECTORS Construction 14.7% 25 20.0% Professional, scientific & technical SCHOOL KEY Retail (see below) Business administration BUSINESS KEY & support services (SEE NEXT PAGE) 4.8% 13.7% Manufacturing Arts, entertainment, A King Charles I D Wolverley CE G The Bewdley recreation & other services 5.1% School Secondary School High Accommodation & food services School School and Sixth B Holy Trinity Wholesale Form Centre 5.5% School E Wyre Forest 8.2% DISTRICT Special School H Stourport High Motor trades C Baxter College School 6.5% Agriculture, forestry & fishing SCHOOLS F Continu Plus 7.4% Academy Trust 6.9% 7.2% Other Sectors 3 WYRE FOREST BUSINESS KEY 1 Amada UK Ltd 9 Greensafe IT Ltd 17 Titan Steel Wheels Limited 24 Severn Valley Railway Mechanical or industrial engineering Wholesale of electronic and Other manufacturing (Holdings) Public Limited telecommunications equipment and parts Company 2 Ashland Specialties UK Limited 18 Victoria Carpets Passenger rail transport, interurban Manufacture of other chemical products 10 Hannafin Holdings Limited Carpets Development of building projects Victo ria P.L .C. 25 Fish4Dogs 3 Beakbane Limited Manufacture of woven or tufted carpets and Food Mechanical or industrial engineering Redspeed International rugs Limited Manufacturing and precision engineering 4 Bond Worth Ltd 19 Vision Labs Ltd. Carpet manufacturers & retailers & distributors Retail sale by opticians 11 International Glazing Wyre Forest Community Services 5 Brintons Carpets Glazing and window services Housing Manufacturing Housing Filtration Service 12 Kidderminster Footwear Engineering Ltd Footwear distributor importer and exporter 20 Voorpret Limited Manufacture & installation & service of Other technology filtration systems 13 Morgan Advanced Materials 21 West Midland 6 Central England Ltd (Technical Ceramics) Advanced materials Safari & Leisure Park Horseboxes Ltd Safari park Horseboxes 14 Parweld Ltd Welding accessories manufacture 22 Fleet Innovations Limited 7 Citizen Communication Automotive M edia Ltd Other professional, scientific and 15 Polyplas Extrusions Limited technical activities Manufacturing 23 Greengineering Limited Insurance 8 Conveyor Units Limited 16 Thursfields Manufacture of lifting and handling equipment Law practice 4 WYRE FOREST SCHOOL LEAVER DESTINATIONS at 16 RESIDENT QUALIFICATIONS % of people with a degree-level qualification All FURTHER School OTHER CONTINUED EDUCATION 6th FORM 6th FORM 30.7% Education (FE) College COLLEGE College % of people with 2 or more A-Levels (or equivalent qualifications) 88% 39% 37% 11% 56.3% % of people with more than 5 A to C GCSEs (or equivalent qualifications) 77% Other IN AN % of people with fewer than 5 A to C GCSEs (or equivalent qualifications) Education 1% APPRENTICESHIP 6% 82.4% % of people with an apprenticeship Sustained NOT IN EDUCATION, 2.6% Employment 2% EMPLOYMENT OR 3% Destination TRAINING (NEET) % of people with no qualifications 10.4% FULL-TIME PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT EMPLOYMENT EMPLOYMENT UNEMPLOYED CLAIMANTS 27,000 (71.6%) 17,000 (28.4%) 1,600 (2.2%) 890 (1.5%) STATISTICS UK: 74.5% UK: 25.2% UK: 4.9% * The number of school leavers not in employment, education or training was not available at the time of producing this report 5 WYRE FOREST EDUCATION * * CAREERS HUB? SCHOOL TYPE PUPIL ROLE 5+ GCSEs CAREERS HUB? SCHOOL TYPE PUPIL ROLE 5+ GCSEs MAINTAINED 42% SPECIAL SCHOOL 938 SCHOOL ACADEMY 52% 66% 551 1,061 MAINTAINED ACADEMY 41% SCHOOL 590 1,151 Careers Hub members schools are part of the Worcestershire LEP’s Careers Hub being delivered in partnership with the Careers and Enterprise Company. Member schools will receive additional support through the careers hub to achieve all 8 of the Gatsby Benchmarks. * 5 GCSEs at A* to C levels, including both English and Mathematics ** Data was not available at the time of producing this report 6 TOWN FOCUS KIDDERMINSTER KIDDERMINSTER KEY INFO TOTAL POPULATION: 57,241 (50.6%) 28,968 28,273 (49.4%) OVER 65 12,298 WORKING AGE UNDER 16 34,427 10,517 White 97.3% Mixed/Multiple Ethnic Groups 1.1% ASIAN / BRITISH ASIAN 1.2% Black / Black British 0.3% Other 0.1% TOP INDUSTRY SECTORS 5.2% 4.5% 14.2% Professional, scientific & technical Retail Trade 5.5% Construction SCHOOL KEY Administration Services 8.7% (see below) Food and Hospitality BUSINESS KEY Information and communication (SEE NEXT PAGE) 21.4% 3.9% Manufacturing 6.1% Health and Care A King Charles I C Baxter F Continu Plus TOWN School College Academy Trust Transport and storage 7.8% B Holy Trinity E Wyre Forest Other services SCHOOLS School Special School 14.6% 7 TOWN FOCUS - SCHOOLS & BUSINESSES KIDDERMINSTER BUSINESS KEY EDUCATION * CAREERS HUB? SCHOOL TYPE PUPIL ROLE 5+ GCSEs 1 Amada UK Ltd 12 Kidderminster Footwear Mechanical or industrial engineering Footwear distributor importer and exporter 2 Ashland Specialties UK 15 Polyplas Extrusions Limited Limited Manufacturing 66% 551 Manufacture of other chemical products 16 Thursfields 3 Beakbane Limited Law practice Mechanical or industrial engineering 18 Victoria Carpets 4 Bond Worth Ltd Carpets Carpet manufacturers & retailers & Victo ria P.L .C. distributors Manufacture of woven or tufted carpets and ACADEMY 52% rugs 5 Brintons Carpets 1,061 Manufacturing 19 Vision Labs Ltd. Retail sale by opticians Filtration Service Engineering Ltd Wyre Forest Community Manufacture & installation & service of Housing filtration systems Housing SPECIAL 6 Central England 20 Voorpret Limited SCHOOL Horseboxes Ltd Other technology Horseboxes 21 West Midland 9 Greensafe IT Ltd Safari & Leisure Park Wholesale of electronic and Safari park telecommunications equipment and parts 22 Fleet Innovations Limited 10 Hannafin Holdings Limited Automotive Development of building projects 23 Greengineering Limited Redspeed International Insurance Limited Careers Hub members schools are part of the Manufacturing and precision engineering 24 Severn Valley Railway Worcestershire LEP’s Careers Hub being delivered 11 International Glazing (Holdings) Public Limited in partnership with the Careers and Enterprise Company Company. Member schools will receive Services Passenger rail transport, interurban Glazing and window services additional support through the careers hub to achieve all 8 of the Gatsby Benchmarks. * 5 GCSEs at A* to C levels, including both English and Mathematics ** Data was not available at the time of producing this report 8 TOWN FOCUS - SKILLS AND EMPLOYMENT KIDDERMINSTER SCHOOL LEAVER DESTINATIONS at 16* RESIDENT QUALIFICATIONS % of people with a degree-level qualification All FURTHER School OTHER CONTINUED EDUCATION 6th FORM 6th FORM 22.3% Education (FE) College COLLEGE College % of people with 2 or more A-Levels (or equivalent qualifications) 88% 39% 37% 11% 13.8% % of people with more than 5 A to C GCSEs (or equivalent qualifications) 19.3% Other IN AN % of people with fewer than 5 A to C GCSEs (or equivalent qualifications) Education 1% APPRENTICESHIP
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