On a day when many young people are confirming their plans for their initial career choices, Dorset Chamber published the first Dorset Local Skills Improvement Plan (LSIP) Progress Report.
This reflects a year of change in the local skills landscape, driven by worker and employer needs and new strategic partnerships and collaborative education initiatives.
Minister for Skills – The Rt Hon Baroness Smith of Malvern, said: “I welcome the publication of the Local Skills Improvement Plan Progress Report for Dorset. These reports set out progress made on meeting the skills needs of local employers. As well as being a valuable source of information for local skills deliverers, employers and stakeholders, the reports along with the LSIPs themselves, will provide important intelligence for the newly established Skills England.”
Nicola Newman, Dorset Chamber’s LSIP Project Lead said. “In the last year all our partners have seriously considered the findings and recommendations in our first report and responded in numerous new ways to meet employee and employer needs. Building capacity and capability in the Dorset workforce through collaboration is a shared goal across all our public and private sector partners. Those joining the local workforce in the next few weeks and years are crucial to our economic and social prosperity, they need to be nurtured and celebrated.”
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Find out more about the LSIP.