Your opportunity to comment on the emerging draft Skills Strategy for Oxfordshire

The Oxfordshire LEP is charged with driving sustainable economic growth and in partnership with the Oxfordshire Skills Board has drafted this consultation Skills Strategy for your consideration.

Adrian Lockwood, Chair of the Oxfordshire Skills Board, says:

‘Realising the LEP’s ambition will require a step change in approach, attitudes, focus and aspiration from partners, but with their support and active participation, this Skills Strategy will support:

• A workforce that is aligned to employers needs by a skills system that places employers and well informed individuals at its heart
• A training and education sector that is more flexible and responsive to employer needs and produces employment-ready young people
• Integrated, seamless co-ordination of services to young people designed to align support to ensure young people are successfully transitioned into appropriate training, further education, or employment opportunities appropriate to their abilities, ambitions and future aspirations.’

This Skills Strategy for Oxfordshire – developed with partners – sets the future direction for skills development in the county to 2020 to support economic growth. The expectation is that these priorities provide the overarching framework against which partners and stakeholders align provision, rally behind and help deliver.

Oxfordshire Skills Strategy 2020 draft for consultation

Your views on the emerging strategy are important.

Please let us have your comments by Friday 31st January 2014 by clicking here.