INVITATION TO QUOTE FOR CORNWALL & ISLES OF SCILLY WORKFORCE AND SKILLS STRATEGY REFRESH

Scope for Skills Strategy Refresh

To ensure we deliver our Good Growth Plan principles, we must review and update our local skills and workforce strategy. The 2021 Local Skills and Labour Market Strategy adopted the following 4 principles which are still relevant: -

1. Inspire - Developing the workforce of tomorrow

Our young people have high quality Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance which informs and inspires them about our unique future opportunities and fosters our spirit of entrepreneurship.

2. Transform - Creating a productive workforce

Our learning provision meets the sector specific requirements of employers through a more collaborative and employer-led approach which aligns learning and training with employer demand, providing learners with clear progression pathways to a higher level creative and technical skills.

3. Innovate - Supporting the growth and diversification of the economy

Develop the leadership and high-level skills needs to drive growth, innovation and productivity.

4. Thrive - Creating opportunity for all

The skills, inclusion and health agendas work together to develop an inclusive 'whole person' approach to skills which enables people to retrain, progress in work or into the labour market.

These principles align well with the recently approved Good Growth Plan and it is proposed that the Workforce and Skills Strategy Review should focus on how we strategically align our commissioning and delivery functions to support our economic growth and skills ambitions. The review of the Workforce and Skills Strategy should therefore focus on the following:

Lot 1 - Evidence Base

1. Updated labour market assessment to ensure we have a robust and current evidence base for all future investment and programme decisions.

Lot 2 - Policy review and Strategy refresh