Purpose

The Buckinghamshire Skills and Employment
Strategy will bring together the latest analysis, employer vision
and the tertiary education providers to ensure that
Buckinghamshire’s current and future workforce are equipped
with the skills to reach their potential, gain meaningful
employment and boost productivity.

Content

Cabinet received a report
on the Skills and Employment Strategy that introduced an ambitious
agenda for raising the productivity of Buckinghamshire through
place-based skills and employment priorities. It detailed the role
people, communities, employers, learning providers and investors
could play in achieving the Buckinghamshire vision for growth.
 
The Council would continue to build on its
reputation as a great place to live and work, with a clear skills
and employment vision and ambitions helping to maximise on local
opportunities and minimise challenges. The delivery of skills and
employment priorities would improve the quality of life, and help
more people benefit from the opportunities the county had to
offer.
 
The Buckinghamshire Skills and Employment
Strategy brought together the latest analysis, stakeholder vision
and the tertiary education providers to ensure that
Buckinghamshire’s current and future workforce were equipped
with the skills to reach their potential, gain meaningful
employment and boost productivity. The Skills and Employment
Strategy:
• Set out the vision for place-based skills
and employment priorities that would underpin delivery of the
Council’s ambitions for Buckinghamshire.
• Established the approach to economic
growth through investment in skills and employment and focuses
action.
• Enabled effective local partnership
working, encouraging collaborative approaches to addressing local
challenges and sharing best practice.
 
RESOLVED –
 
That the
Skills and Employment Strategy 2024-29
be ADOPTED, as a key corporate document of
Buckinghamshire Council. 

Reasons for the decision

Adoption of the Strategy will provide the
strategic context to facilitate joined up discussions and design
the County’s approach to increasing productivity through
skills and employment interventions.

Alternative options considered

No other options considered.