Supercharge Your Local Skills Improvement Plan
Close the Skills Gap: Set Your Region up for Success
Amplify Your Voice: Become the Go-To Authority
Deliver Real Wins for Your Members: Fuel a Stronger Economy
You’re the Only Organisation Who Can Unite the Players: Be the Catalyst for Change
Employer-Led Skills Need Employer Leadership: Step Up and Make It Happen
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.
How to Deliver A Great Local Skills Improvement Plan
Five critical elements of delivering a great Local Skills Improvement Plan, detailing how to plan and conduct the research, ensuring high levels of employer and stakeholder engagement, and achieve high quality robust results.
Download the Ultimate Guide to Local Skills Improvement Plans
Your ultimate 30-page guide, to planning and delivering an impactful LSIP that will position you as the region’s authority on skills and evolve the local skills system.
A Great LSIP Needs the Best Consultants
Glenn Athey, Mike Spicer and Hannah Lazarus are three exceptionally experienced and qualified advisors and consultants who help local business organisations deliver LSIPs.
5 Reasons Why You Should Lead A Local Skills Improvement Plan
Improving the local skills system will bring dividends from meeting employer skills needs, will boost members, and position your organisation as the skills leader. Only you can do this.
The Best LSIPs Have These Five Qualities
The best LSIPs engage extensively with businesses and employers; discuss critical megatrends; provide intelligence and insight; draw in other expert research; and knit a skills community closer together.
New to LSIPs? Where to Start
A Local Skills Improvement Plan can be a daunting prospect if you have no experience with employment or skills policy and research. Click here for your Six-Step Guide to planning your LSIP.
A Great LSIP Needs the Best Consultants The Local Skills Improvement Partnership is here to help
We are experienced economists and analysts working in applied policy, strategy and delivery for local councils, partnerships and chambers of commerce. We all have either a postgraduate or graduate honours degree in economics.
Trust Us to Work with Your Most Senior Stakeholders
All of our consultants are able to credibly and confidently talk to your leaders and senior stakeholders.
High Impact Reports With Calls to Action That Reflect Local Challenges and Opportunities
All of our reports are written in a high-impact, accessible style and will tell you what the research means and what you can do about it. We guarantee that you could hand our reports to a Minister of State with confidence in the quality, robustness and high impact writing style
The Skills landscape is shifting. Don’t get left behind. Leading your Local Skills Improvement Plan (LSIP) is essential for a thriving local economy and the future success of your employers
Nail the Skills Mismatch: Equip Your Region for Success
Amplify Your Voice: Become the Go-To Authority
Deliver Real Wins for Your Members: Fuel a Stronger Economy
You’re the Only Organisation Who Can Unite the Players: Be the Catalyst for Change
Employer-Led Skills Need Employer Leadership: Step Up and Make It Happen
Leading a Local Skills Improvement Plan is a significant undertaking, but the rewards – a more skilled workforce, a stronger economy, and enhanced influence for your organisation – are well worth the effort.
By embracing a strategic, evidence-based approach and partnering with experienced professionals, you can ensure your LSIP delivers real and lasting impact for your region.
You can get your free 2-page introduction to LSIPs here via the links (a pdf document will open or download):
- Introduction for Employer Representative Groups
- Introduction for Education and Training Institution
- Introduction for Local and Combined Authorities
- Introduction for MPs and other local stakeholders
Each advisor has over 20 years of experience
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
Partner with the experts to deliver a strong Local Skills Improvement Plan that has robust analysis, identified solutions and engages stakeholders and businesses effectively
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Launch of the Local Skills Improvement Partnership!
⬆️ Close the Skills Gap: 𝗦𝗲𝘁 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘂𝗽 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀📣Amplify Your Voice: 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗼-𝗧𝗼 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆🏆Deliver Real Wins for Your Members: 𝗙𝘂𝗲𝗹 𝗮 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆🎇You’re the Only Organisation Who Can Unite the Players: 𝗕𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲🎯Employer-Led Skills...
What are Local Skills Improvement Plans?
Local Skills Improvement Plans are Three-Year Plans to Align Training Provision to Employer Needs A Local Skills Improvement Plan (LSIP) is a three-year plan developed by an Employer Representative Body (ERB) for a specific area in England. It aims to achieve a better...
5 Reasons Why You Should Lead a Local Skills Improvement Plan
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...
How to Supercharge Your Local Skills Improvement Plan
Master your Local Skills Improvement Plan for Significant Benefits Leading a Local Skills Improvement Plan is a significant undertaking, but the rewards – a more skilled workforce, a stronger economy, and enhanced influence for your organisation – are well worth the...