Continuity and change: employers’ training practices and partnerships with training providers

Q30 Please write the two most important forms of government funding for VET that you/your industry partners use in your partnerships.

Organisation type: TAFE (n=17)
First Response	Second Response
Smart and skilled apprenticeship and traineeship funding	Targeted Industry funds ACWVET Health industry for example.
Shared servicing arrangement with distribution of funds to partner in training provision	Facilitates the ability to liaise with industry to ensure work placement practicums
State/federal training subsidies	Equipment/facility funding
Vet Fee Help	Victorian Training Grant
Our State government recurrent funding	Competitively tendered funding
Small regional communities	Industry Skills Fund
User choice	VET in Schools
State	Federal
Queensland User Choice Funding Program 2010/2016	Construction Skills Queensland Funding Programs
Certificate III Guarantee	Funding streams specifically aimed at industry are very unsuccessful e.g. WELL
Training guarantee funding	Training grants
Profile funding	Service contracts
Apprenticeship	Smart and Skilled funding (NSW Govt subsidised training)
Smart & skilled funding	Targeted priority funding
Smart and skilled	Part qualification by state training
Access to state and territory training funds (user choice etc.)	Access to Vet Fee Help
VTG	Apprenticeship and traineeship funding for employers

Note: All respondents gave two responses to Q30 for this organisation type.

Organisation type: For Profit (n=30)
First Response	Second Response
I MUST include normal govt funding for traineeships because it is no longer available to us. This needs to be fixed.
Funding to subsidise the cost of training	Funding to subsidise the employers costs
vet fee help	Austudy
User choice
Skills development	C3G
Victorian Trainee Guarantee	Federal funding
Don't use them	Don't need them
C3G	USER CHOICE
We will not participate in any programme that is government funded as it reinforces poor outcomes.	All government funding corrupts training outcomes and we will not participate in this.
Traineeships	State programs
User choice funding
Monitoring	Enrolments
We are 100% user pay (no govt funding)
VTG
State funding	Employer incentives
Work Ready State funding
The Smart and Skilled Contract	Pre-vocational funding
The Victorian Guarantee Training Program
Apprenticeship
Work ready	Grants for RPL for the motor vehicle transformation
Traineeships
Dep't of Business specific purpose project funding	Industry build skills
Part qualifications
HESG - Victorian Training Guarantee
CSQ short courses	Local Government Association of Queensland
Apprenticeships / Traineeships	Skills Funding
We don't rely on government funding	We don't rely on government funding
Traineeships	PIT funding
User choice	QLD VET Investment
Concession funding	Student contact hour funding

Note: Highlighted rows represent respondents who gave two responses to Q30 for this organisation type.

Organisation type: Not for Profit (n=19)
First Response	Second Response
State subsidy programs	VET FEE-HELP
Workready	Jobsfirst
HESG - VTG	Fee for service
Traineeship and apprenticeship pathways	Subsidised training for skill shortage areas
Participation Equity Program funding, training is funded for the RTO
Traineeships	Apprenticeships
Skills for education and employment	Certificate III Guarantee
Specific workforce development funding
ACE CSO funding	Access to more part qual finding
Clinical placements provided by public hospitals/facilities	LLN support
Workready funding	Skills for jobs in regions funding
IPS Industry Partnership Strategy
State government subsidies	VET FEE-HELP
Higher level skills
Certificate 3 Guarantee	SQW
SEE (Skills for Education and Employment)	Smart & skilled (CSO - Community Service obligation)
VTG
EBPPP	NWDF
Tasmanian Skills Fund	Tasmanian Seafood Pledge

Note: Highlighted rows represent respondents who gave two responses to Q30 for this organisation type.