National Transition Training Fund (NTTF): year 1 report

Looking ahead

In June 2021, the First Minister announced that NTTF would be extended for a second year to ensure continued support for individuals and businesses while we moved through the Covid-19 crisis. Early findings from Year 1 have helped to inform the focus of the Fund's second year, which has maintained its stronger sectoral approach to training provision, continuing to provide tailored and flexible support to help sectors overcome the skills and labour market issues that they face – be that recovering from the pandemic, mitigating the impacts of Brexit, or supporting growth to aid future skills transitions.

Year 2 has expanded its reach to support a broader range of sectors and has placed a greater emphasis on the provision of green skills with a package of projects delivered through the Scottish Government's Green Jobs Workforce Academy, launched in August 2021, as one the key commitments in our Climate Emergency Skills Action Plan.

With a forward commitment in the Covid Recovery Strategy, published in October 2021, to simplify and strengthen our support for adult upskilling and retraining, the Scottish Government is now working to incorporate the learnings from NTTF, together with evidence from evaluations of our Individual Training Accounts and Flexible Workforce Development Fund programmes to inform the development of a coherent, forward-looking lifetime skills offer. This work is being taken forward as part of the second phase of the Future Skills Action Plan aligned to the ambitions of the forthcoming National Strategy for Economic Transformation.