Theme Partnerships

Worklessness - Greater Nottingham Skills Board

In September 2004, partners established the Greater Nottingham Skills Board as the strategic lead for adult learning, skills and employability across the conurbation. The Board is committed to the following objectives:

• To raise the aspirations of local people to ‘achieve through learning’ and to ‘progress through work’.

• To drive up the demands for skills from business.

• To improve the match between skills supply and demand.

Priority Sectors to be supported include retail distribution, health and social care, construction engineering and manufacturing. Priority groups will include 14 to 19 year olds, lone parents, people with disabilities, those with low or no qualifications, black and minority ethnic groups, older people and those living in our most deprived wards.

The Board has recently endorsed a Skills Delivery Plan which begins to identify priorities and actions for collaborative
working that will help Nottingham break out of the low skill and low pay cycle. Priorities are:

• Raise levels of achievement amongst 14 to 19 year olds (provide more appropriate provision pre and post 16, including Apprenticeships, FE / HE take-up and retention, vocational and work based learning).

• Raise levels of achievement in learning for adults focusing on skills for life and attainment to level 2.

• Encourage local employers to invest in training and up-skill their staff.

• Increase the number of people entering employment from
disadvantaged groups and Nottingham’s most deprived wards.

• Improve the responsiveness and coordination of our provision to meet employer and individual needs.



For more information go to the Greater Nottingham Skills Board



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