21st March, 2023
Silencing the voice of local business will cost money not save it
The Chancellor’s announcement that he “is minded” to cease funding Local Enterprise Partnerships, and by implication, the Growth Hubs that have helped...
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Skills and Careers Education
LEP Network Skills meetings
+The LEP Network Skills leads meet 3 times a year to receive updates from HMG colleagues on skills including
- Apprenticeships
- Institutes of Technology
- T-levels
- Skills Advisory Panels
- Digital Skills Partnerships
- DWP employment strategy research
- Fuller Working Lives
The meetings are an opportunity to share good practice among LEPs. Occasionally outside speakers are invited to address the meeting if they represent organisations delivering the skills agenda.
Skills Capital Funding
+LEPs have extensive experience of supporting people and businesses to achieve the skills required togrow their local economy. This includes the skills for today, post-Brexit and skills for the future. LEPs were a key partner in area reviews and are at the forefront of making sure that further education providers understand the skills needs of business. LEPs have invested over £650m in skills capital projects to ensure that the skills infrastructure needed to support current and future skills needs is in place and ready to train and upskills residents.
European Social Fund
+Through their Strategic Economic Plans, LEPs have influenced the allocation of over £1.2bn of European Social Fund (ESF) skills projects to boost the skills of local residents. These skills projects fall within ESF priorities:
- Access to Employment
- Sustained Integration for Young People
- Youth Employment
- Active Inclusion
- Lifelong Learning
- Improving Education
To subscribe to the DWP ESF Project Bulletin email ESF.2014-2020@DWP.GSI.GOV.UK
Enterprise Adviser Network
+LEPs are co-funders of the Careers and Enterprise Company Enterprise Adviser Network. Enterprise co-ordinators are located in all LEPs and work to engage local businesses to join the network of business volunteers working with schools to improve careers education
@TheLEPNetwork
"Local business must not be silenced or made ineffective, it must retain a meaningful voice to ensure investment is relevant and that it enables the creation of jobs – after all it is business which creates jobs, not government" https://t.co/mZiiJ3FjOm
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10th March, 2023
Ministers must be clear and unequivocal with LEPs
In an exclusive article for the Local Government Chronicle, LEP Network Chair, Mark Bretton, calls on the government to come clean on Local Enterprise...
15th February, 2023
LEP initiative with Microsoft gives SMEs free digital tech support
Thousands of businesses will gain access to free resources that will help them get the most of Microsoft technologies as a new pilot scheme is rolled ...
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