5 Skills Action Plan
The Heart of the South West’s Skills Strategy sets out the area’s preferred approach to skills development over the next five years, including our preferred sector focus, geographic approach, and priorities for COVID recovery.
Strategy alone however will not deliver the progress sought around skills and employment over the next decade, with a clear need for partners to come together across the HotSW area to ensure that relevant delivery activity is commissioned, funding secured, and outcomes achieved. To achieve this, and respond to Covid-19 effectively, an unapologetic focus on prioritising delivery of the area’s agreed priorities will now be needed, seeking to fulfil the opportunities and address the challenges outlined elsewhere in this document.
This chapter therefore sets out a complementary action plan for the delivery of skills and related employment priorities over the next five years. Drawing upon the Skills Advisory Panels’ detailed evidence base, the skills action plan identifies specific activity areas and programmes against each of the ten priority areas already identified through our Core strategy, seeking to provide a single blueprint for skills development across the Heart of the South West area. It also seeks to deliver on our core ambitions around clean growth, improved productivity, and social inclusion through skills and employment activity.
