Program directory · Employment and Social Development Canada
Skilled Trades Awareness and Readiness (STAR) Program
- Department
- Employment and Social Development Canada
- Program code
- BGO22 (HRSD)
- Core responsibility
- Learning, Skills Development and Employment
- In Departmental Plans
- 2019-20 – 2022-23 · Appeared and later dropped
What it does
The Program encourages Canadians – particularly those facing barriers, such as women, Indigenous peoples, youth, newcomers and persons with disabilities – to explore and prepare for careers in the skilled trades. The objectives of the Program are to: build awareness of the trades as viable, good quality careers; help equip individuals with the skills and supports they need to pursue a career in the skilled trades; and provide opportunities to explore the trades.
Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.
History and lineage
First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skilled Trades Awareness and Readiness (STAR) Program | This program | 2018-19 – 2024-25 | $57M |
No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.
Significant changes in scope and budget
Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.
| Year | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | Spending $8.9M, against $238K in 2018-19 (+3646%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
| 2022-23 | Spending $23.7M, against $12.9M in 2021-22 (+84%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
Success criteria
The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.
Historical: targets against results
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | ≥ 450 | 2020 | — Not available at the time of publishing. Due to COVID-19, the survey to collect the Skills Trades Awareness and Readiness Program’s Key Performance Indicators was postponed. | No result reported |
| 2020-21 | ≥ 450 | 2021 | 3,056 Latest program results available are for 2019-2020. | Met |
| 2021-22 | ≥ 3,200 | 2022 | 19,447 There was a significant increase in the number of participants in projects in fiscal year 2021-2022 as a result of one project conducting significant awareness activities. The results for 2020-2021 were not available for reporting in the 2020-2021 Departmental Results Report since the survey used to collect the results was delayed due to COVID-19; actual results for that fiscal year was 3,695 tot… | Met |
| 2022-23 | ≥ 3,200 | 2023 | 12,906 | Met |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
No indicators in the 2026-27 plan.
Future goals: targets due after 2026-27
No targets with a later due date.
Spending and employees: planned against actual
Spending
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | — | $238K |
| 2019-20 | $9.9M | $8.9M |
| 2020-21 | $22.5M | $11.3M |
| 2021-22 | $24.1M | $12.9M |
| 2022-23 | $19.6M | $23.7M |
| 2023-24 | $19.6M* | — |
| 2024-25 | $19.6M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | — | 2 |
| 2019-20 | 6 | 2 |
| 2020-21 | 22 | 3 |
| 2021-22 | 14 | 3 |
| 2022-23 | 15 | 3 |
| 2023-24 | 15* | — |
| 2024-25 | 15* | — |
Planned spending, plan by plan
Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans
| Plan | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 plan | $9,859,138 | $9,759,279 | $9,852,580 | |||
| 2020-21 plan | $22,450,685 | $19,662,471 | $19,654,401 | |||
| 2021-22 plan | $24,074,002 | $19,666,009 | $19,665,884 | |||
| 2022-23 plan | $19,638,703 | $19,638,580 | $19,638,228 | |||
| Actual | $8,901,128 | $11,320,384 | $12,873,366 | $23,709,730 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
