Future Skills Sussex Offer

The Future Skills Sussex Offer is responding to:

• Learning from rounds 1 and 2 of the Sussex SDF projects - Greener Sussex and CODES and the new opportunity LSIF brings.
• Priorities and recommendations coming through the Sussex LSIP sector deep dives and crosscutting themes such as employability skills and mental toughness; net zero and climate change; and diversity and inclusion. 
• Successful pilots coming out of the innovation ‘testbed’.
• Local and national policy, strategy and investment opportunities.

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We see many potential benefits of this Sussex-wide approach, such as:

• economies of scale
• consistency across place
• shared resources and expertise
• higher profile for Sussex
• increased employer trust and engagement
• investment

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‍The partners

Sussex Learning Network, FE Sussex and SCTP are identified as the most appropriate lead organisations for this theme because of their wide-reaching networks. Over the course of the LSIP they will work collaboratively with the following core partners.

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‍Our activity

Through research and analysis, consultation and planning workshops we developed a set of recommended actions which form part of a 3-year action plan for each Framework theme.

The overarching recommended actions for Offer are:

• Develop a Sussex-wide Continuing Professional  Development (CPD) offer for further education staff (teachers, assessors, support, managers) - to include a focus on industry led CPD.
• Develop a Sussex-wide  campaign to recruit skilled professionals from the key sectors to shortage teacher and assessor roles.
• Develop a Sussex-wide approach to delivering 'employability' skills to address the gaps identified through data, surveys and deep dives.
• Develop Sussex-wide ‘access to employment’ schemes such as skills boot camps or SWAPS, with priority for sectors  such as creative and land-based where jobs are not widely advertised.
• Explore the use of clear and simple 'offer’ language which is understandable by the target audience and consistent across Sussex.

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View the full action plan here.