Development and Update of Skills Framework

The Council now seeks a framework architecture that supports interoperability between National Occupational Standards, labour market intelligence systems, education and training pathways, credentialing systems, and real-time workforce analytics platforms to enable a modern, responsive, and future-ready agriculture workforce ecosystem. The result will be to modernize and expand these resources into a dynamic National Agriculture Skills Framework that leverages and maps the NOS content into a contemporary, interoperable skills architecture. A report was produced in 2024 that provides a preliminary outline of this framework and recommendations to be considered in the development and implementation of the full skills framework. The framework will support alignment between occupations, competencies, tasks, credentials, and emerging skills requirements while enabling compatibility with related sector frameworks, including food processing and broader agri-food workforce systems. Once developed the framework will be updated annually.