1. Improve The Local Skills System to Meet the Skills Needs of Employers and Employees for Success
- Employers and businesses hire and develop skills
- National and local surveys show that skills is the number one priority for employers where the public sector plays a prominent role
- The public sector provides a significant proportion of education and skills, and by education and training providers such as FE colleges
- An effective local skills system can help to ensure that employers and workers work together with education and skills providers to get the skills they need to succeed and progress
- An LSIP provides an objective, evidence-based analysis of skills requirements and trends
- An LSIP provides a mechanism for employers, businesses, and education and training providers to discuss future skills needs and how the system can improve to provider for them
- To change skills provision and the skills system, there needs to be robust evidence, a convincing case for change and a dialogue
2. As an Employer Representative Body, you aim to expand your reach and impact
- LSIPs mean that ERBs provide and share insight on the performance of the local economy
- LSIPs involve ERBs engaging with businesses who are not traditionally members of employer representative bodies, such as life sciences and digital businesses
- ERBs provide leadership and advocacy on local resources and priorities on behalf of employers and local education and training providers
3. Your members will benefit from a better local skills system, boosting the economy and businesses
- Through LSIPs, education and skills provision will better reflect the needs of local businesses
- Through LSIPs, members are engaged and encouraged to articulate their skills needs
- Through LSIPs, the local skills system can adapt to meet membersโ needs
- Leading to a stronger, more resilient local economy
4. Only your employer representative body can credibly unite all local skills system stakeholders
- LSIPs provide the robust evidence and analysis for change, produced in partnership by employers, businesses and education and training providers
- National and local surveys show that the business and performance implications of recruitment and skills problems are significant
- The economy is dynamic. Skills and workforce requirements change, and employers and education and training providers need to be able to adapt their practices and provision
- LSIPs are a mechanism for bringing all the players in the local skills system together to forge an improvement plan based on robust evidence
5. The success of employer-led skills training requires leadership from a representative body of employers
- Employer representative bodies are impartial, objective and trusted by employers to help them and the local economy thrive and succeed
- Many local FE colleges are members of employer representative bodies
- Only an employer representative body can bring together all of the organisations in the local skills system and be the neutral broker to deliver a Local Skills Improvement Plan
About the Local Skills Improvement Partnership
We are Glenn Athey, Mike Spicer and Hannah Lazarus and we combine our extensive experience, with findings from evidence, evaluation and guidance to provide expert advice and support to Supercharge your Local Skills Improvement Plan.
