Future Skills Sussex Priorities
This page explores the key sectors and skills priorities helping shape workforce development across Sussex and Brighton.
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Key Sectors
Click through for information and reports on our eight key sectors.
Over time the intention is to build on the research and intelligence on skills and the labour market within our key sectors and provide trend information to LSIP partners and stakeholders.
Our Skills Priorities
The LSIP’s four skills priorities provide a shared framework for strengthening workforce capability, supporting productivity and improving access to opportunity across Sussex and Brighton.
These priorities led to the development of the Future Skills Sussex Improvement Framework and the themes that sit within it.
Priority 01: Support employers in Sussex to recruit, retain and retrain their workforce.
1.1 Business support with a focus on recruitment and retention initiatives.
1.2 A workforce development offer that meets local needs.
Priority 02: Ensure a joined-up approach to meeting the skills needs in Sussex as identified by local businesses.
2.1 Collaborate and consult.
2.2 Tailor to business needs.
Priority 03: Build a profile for and raise awareness of the key sectors in Sussex.
3.1 Build a profile of each key sector.
3.2 Raise awareness of each key sector.
Priority 04: Ensure training and employment in Sussex is open and accessible to all.
4.1 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at the heart of the Sussex LSIP.
Priority 05: Speak with one voice in Sussex to influence national and local policy using an evidence-based approach.
5.1 Explore freedoms and flexibilities within existing policy and current skills funding system.
5.2 Test and trial new initiatives.
We have cross-referenced the priorities to the themes, and this can be found in the Future Skills Sussex Improvement Framework here.
Priority 01: Labour market
What needs to change
1.1 Business support with a focus on recruitment and retention initiatives
1.2 A workforce development offer that meets local need
Priority 02: Skills provision
What needs to change
2.1 Collaborate and consult
2.2 Tailor to business needs
Priority 03: Sector profile
What needs to change
3.1 Build a profile of each key sector
3.2 Raise awareness of each key sector
Priority 04: Accessibility
What needs to change
4.1 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at the heart of the Sussex LSIP
Priority 05: Skills Policy
What needs to change
5.1 Explore freedoms and flexibilities within existing policy and current skills funding system
5.2 Test and trial new initiatives
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