Employment & Skills Board and LEP
Norfolk Employment & Skills Board
The role of the Employment and Skills Board is to provide the leadership to deliver:
1. A strategic approach to delivering the challenging LAA targets
2. The lead on key theme 4 Knowledgeable and skilled, Norfolk Ambition
3. Stimulating the demand for skills – encouraging employers and individuals to see and understand the benefits that can accrue from investing in skills. The UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) reports that businesses which don’t train their staff are 21/2 times more likely to fail than those which do. By 2020 more than four in ten of all jobs are likely to require degree-level qualifications or equivalent. Only one in 50 jobs is likely to be available to those with no qualifications.
4. Making skills really easy to access and fit for purpose. All the evidence tells us that employers are all too readily put off if they are confronted by complexity.
5. Linking skills and economic development more effectively. Local economic development teams have a good understanding of the local business landscape and their requirements and are well placed to promote skills development as a response to challenges and opportunities in the market whether it is growth or retrenchment
6. Skills and Worklessness - ensuring initiatives aimed at getting people back to work are linked to stimulating demand and shaping the provision available.
A Skills Strategy has been produced which was informed by an evidence base drawing on national, regional and local performance data. The strategy can be viewed here. There are two accompanying documents - the Challenges and the Action Plan. This strategy identifies three key components that we need to address if we are to help Norfolk achieve its vision to ‘make Norfolk famous for its learning and skills’.
- Providing skills opportunities for the individual
- Demonstrating value to the employer of a skilled workforce
- Improving the system so it provides the skills we need.
Careers information, advice and guidance providers, as identified in that action plan, can be found by clicking here.
Details of the Employment and Skills Board Meetings can be accessed below.
Click here for the latest agenda.
Click here for the notes from the last meeting
The current Terms of Reference for the group can be accessed here.
For further information please contact Eliska Cheesman - eliska.cheeseman@norfolk.gov.uk Tel: 01603 228827
New Anglia LEP (Local Enterprise Partnership)
The New Anglia LEP comprises of Norfolk and Suffolk representatives. The New Anglia LEP has a dedicated website - see here. Of particular interest to voluntary and community sector groups may be the 'Working with the Community' thread to the areas of priority. Why not leave a comment for the LEP and 'working with the community' on their website?
