Skills
Welcome to the new Skills and Employment web page.
The NWDA Skills and Employment Team work across the Northwest to
support the region in strategic skills and employment
issues.
Our key responsibilities are to:
- Identify skills and employment demand around the region and
articulate this in a clear evidence base;
- Develop a Regional Priority Statement to inform Skills Funding
Agency spend;
- Develop, manage and monitor skills and employment
projects;
- Share regional data and key messages to support and influence
regional and national skills policy; and
- Provide strategic leadership in skills and related policy
initiatives.
Regional Skills Priorities Statement
The
North West Skills Priorities Statement provides an overview of
skills required to support regional economic growth, with a focus
on articulating the specific skills priorities that require
attention and response from providers and stakeholders. It sets out
overall priorities for the North West Region for the academic year
2011/12. This has been developed through extensive consultation
with key partners and providers and the development of the North
West Skills and Employment Evidence Base.
Skills and Employment Evidence Base
We have now released our latest version of the Skills and
Employment Evidence Base. This evidence base marks a watershed for
skills and employment information for the North West. It is a
document which pulls from partners and stakeholders the
intelligence they have gathered recently and seeks to present it in
a cohesive whole, giving partners a tool to support essential
prioritisation in the challenging times ahead. It draws from the
national, regional, sub-regional and local pictures and aims to
give a ‘line of sight’ through these spatial areas.
We would like to thank partners and colleagues for their
feedback and support for the Skills and Employment Evidence Base
and we hope that it will be a useful document of research and
analysis which will inform on both the current and future needs in
terms of employment and skills in the economy.
Skills
and Employment Evidence Base
Visit the Publications page to access research related
to the Skills theme.