The Skills Board will facilitate an efficient and fair local labour market where businesses can access a suitably skilled workforce and all local people can secure good quality, well paid employment. The Board wants everyone to be able to achieve their full potential no matter their background.
Input and advice will be given to the Hull and East Yorkshire Unitary Leaders Board and proposed Combined Authority in terms of skills and employment opportunities, options, and issues.
Aim
The HEY Skills Board will develop an ambitious Skills Strategy for the HEYCA area. It will include plans for -
- delivering
- reviewing
- reporting
- monitoring
the strategy’s outcomes.
The Skills Board will work with employers and organisations to develop labour market information. They will work together to make sure this is reflected in better information and careers guidance and curriculum delivery, including raising the profile of apprenticeships and technical information in the HEY area.
The role of the Skills Board will include the setting up of management systems to invest the Adult Skills Fund. This acts as an enabler for residents to gain vital qualifications and develop new skills. The Board will also oversee the range of current contracted education and training provision managed by the former HEY LEP. They will inform opportunities strategically to bid for additional funds to support the region.
The Board aims to drive ambitious targets to best serve the business and residential communities. They will celebrate good quality education and training, and direct new provision where gaps are evidenced in the short, medium, and long term.
Adult Skills Fund Devolution
Stakeholder engagement about devolving the Adult Skills Fund (ASF), formerly the Adult Education Budget (AEB) to Hull and East Yorkshire from the academic year 2026/27 subject to having an agreed skills framework in place, all readiness conditions being met and Parliamentary approval being granted.
