The vast array of skills studies and strategies produced at the national and sub-regional level have put skills at the top of the agenda.
Links to these key policies, plans and strategies are given below.
Leeds Strategic Plan 2008-2011
- Demonstrates how Leeds City Council has agreed a single shared set of outcomes and priorities for the city.
Leitch Review of Skills
- Independent review of the UK's long term skills needs.
The Freud Review
- Reducing dependency, increasing opportunity: options for the future of welfare to work.
LSC Statement of Priorities
- The Learning and Skills Council’s priorities and key actions for 2008/9 to 2010/11.
Review of Sub-National Economic Development and Regeneration
- Makes the link between skills, jobs and economic growth and sets out a number of reforms.
Opportunity, Employment and Progression: making skills work
- Sets out the principles of welfare reform.
Regional Economic Strategy: Y&H 2006-15
- Sets out six overarching objectives to deliver economic growth.
Leeds City Region Development Programme and Multi Area Agreement on Skills
- Sets out a series of economic drivers through which substantial increases in employment and GVA are sought.
Integrated Employment and Skills Service
- A further integration of welfare and skills is a recommendation within Leitch .
The pdf available on this page provides a policy context and further details of these developments.