2 Setting the remit of Skills England To be a success, Skills England should be the strategic guiding light for the learning and skills system in England, ensuring that providers, individu. [...] Part of the success and endurance of other bodies, such as the Low Pay Commission and Monetary Policy Committee is true buy in from a range of stakeholders (not just the government of the day), true independence, and true and defined powers and ways to judge success. [...] If the Government continues with Local Skills Improvement Plans, Skills England should have responsibility for agreeing these and reviewing progress and their remit should be widened to include increasing employer investment in and utilisation of skills as part of local growth plans. [...] Skills England should work with key departments, agencies and stakeholders to ensure effective skills plans are in place to meet national priorities such as the transition to clean energy and increasing housebuilding and infrastructure. [...] This should include working with existing infrastructure, including: working with the CITB and CLC to agree a plan to increase training and the pipeline of construction workers; ensuring skills investment and recruitment plans are part of the planned Fair Pay Agreement in social care; and working with the Migration Advisory Committee to consider how to gain sectoral and firm level commitments to i.
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Table of Contents
- Background 1
- Overall the learning and skills system at a national level is underled overmanaged and missing a holistic focus. 2
- Learning from outside England Wales Scotland 2
- Canada US Ireland Australia 2
- Setting the remit of Skills England 3
- The aim is to ensure learning and skills in England are joined up and plugged in to other policy areas 3
- Measuring success. 4
- Support local leadership. 4
- Skills for national priorities. 4
- Increasing employer skills demand and utilisation. 4
- Identifying priority provision. 4
- Steps to success 1. Lifelong learning strategy to create a vision 5
- First step Announce a timetable and collaborative approach such as a Green Paper for the creation of a post-16 strategy. 5
- Box 1 Five ways Skills England can raise employer demand for investment in and use of skills 5
- Construction. 5
- Migration. 5
- Social care. 5
- Clean energy. 5
- Local growth plans. 5
- 2. Listen and learn 6
- First step Appointment of Skills England Board and open recruitment at a senior level of its CEO. 6
- 3. Ensuring a focus on employer investment in skills as well as public policy 6
- First step Expand the remit of LSIPs to include employer investment in skills. Ensure this is also built into devolution deals. 6
- 4. Real power to gain real traction 6
- 5. Face outward as well as inward 6
