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Influence, Business Network Evening18th September 2013
Mike GodfreyChair, Swindon Skills & Employment Board
Our Priorities
• Business led partnership
• Business, Public Sector and voluntary Sector
• Ensuring a more strategic and joined up approach
• Identify priorities
• Clear links to the LEP
• Focus resources and maximise opportunities to gain additional funding
One Swindon
Swindon – Skills and Employment Swindon – Skills and Employment GovernanceGovernance
Skills and Employment Board(Business Led, supported by SBC)
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Growing Economy Programme (SBC)
All sub groups are assigned a business lead or link
Our Priorities
Strengths • High levels of overall
employment• High productivity rates (One of
the highest GVA rates outside London)
• High rate of private sector jobs• Excellent business location • Strengths in specific sectors• Good engagement of private,
public and voluntary sector at Board level and in sub groups
• Positive engagement with Apprenticeships in some sectors
Challenges• Skills shortages and gaps are a
barrier to current and future growth, particularly at level 4+
• Skill levels at 19 and all ages are below the national average
• Swindon has been badly hit by the recession, young people have suffered disproportionately
• Nationally, 55% employers indicate that young people lack the key attributes needed to be successful in a job.
• Currently patchy evidence of skills needs from employers
Our Priorities
1. A place of opportunity for Young People•Equip young people with the skills and qualifications needed to successfully enter the labour market2. A Higher Skilled, Higher Earning Population•Better understand the skills needs of business•Ensure current workforce has the skills needed now and in the future•Create an employment and skills system which is more responsive to the needs of business and which supports enterprise and employment growth
Our Priorities
3. Innovative Higher Education Provision •Focus on raising the higher level skills base of the workforce
4. Right Skills, Right Jobs•Reduce unemployment and improve pathways to securing employment
Feedback on the Strategy. Strategy will be sent via email. Deadline 18th October. •Are these the right priorities?•What are your skills and employment challenges?•What would help?
Champion the strategy•Contribute to the sub groups•Support young adults through work experience, internships, traineeships or Apprenticeships
