Purpose

This Skills Plan is
vital to achieving our One Stockport Ambitions, it sets out our
overarching vision, ambition and
priorities for our skills system for the next three years. It is a
partnership plan with a shared borough-wide vision and shared
ambitions which can only be achieved through harnessing the skills,
knowledge and shared resources across
services in the public, private and third sector.
 
The plan reflects the
shared partnership priorities from our One Stockport Borough Plan
and One Stockport: One Future; and is aligned with other key
strategy documents including the Stockport Council Plan, Stockport
Economic Plan and 
Stockport Schools Strategy. Our partnership wide  commitment to a
have a relentless focus on  ‘fair
and inclusive’ – making a ‘Stockport a great,
diverse place to live, where everyone can thrive’ runs
through the plan.
 
The cabinet will
asked to approve and adopt the plan.

Content

The Cabinet has
considered a report setting out the Council’s overarching
vision, ambition and priorities for our skills system for the next
three years, and has agreed to endorse the plan, and further agree
that:-
 
(1) A detailed annual
delivery plan is produced that sets targets, actions and milestones
for delivery of the plan.
 
(2) An index of the
indicators identified in this plan to track progress and act
accordingly is produced.
 
(3) Officers maintain
a productive partnership of stakeholders.
 
(4) Officers working
to align the Skills Plan priorities to any emerging funding
opportunities created by central government and other funding
agencies.