12th September, 2023
LEPs join the battle to end digital poverty
Today is End Digital Poverty Day, an opportunity to focus on addressing digital poverty, raise awareness, promote practical actions, and rally support...
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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
News
4th August, 2023
Government announcement on the future of LEPs
In response to today’s announcement that the government will no longer fund LEPs after March 2024, LEP Network Chair Mark Bretton said:
20th July, 2023
LEP Skills Bootcamps to train hundreds of people in the skills businesses need
York & North Yorkshire Local Enterprise Partnership (Y&NY LEP) is just one of many LEPs across the country running skills programmes - Skills Bootcamp...
Events
7th November, 2023
IED marks 40 years of economic development campaigning
The Institute of Economic Development celebrates 40 years of economic development campaigning with its Annual Conference and Dinner in Birmingham on 7...
6th November, 2023
Lifelong Learning Week
Lifelong Learning Week is an annual week of activity taking place across England, bringing together the work of a wide range of stakeholders to raise ...
6th June, 2023
Traffex - The UK's Leading Road and Highways Tradeshow
Traffex is the UK's leading sourcing show for public and private sector buyers responsible for delivering, maintaining and developing the UK road netw...
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