What will be the future role of Regional Skills Partnerships and Employment and Skills Boards, and how will DIUS skills funding (and proposed new bodies) be factored into new arrangements?
Joint departmental work is underway to produce good practice principles for Employment and Skills Boards (ESBs) which already exist and especially for those emerging from Multi Area Agreements. It is hoped that these ‘light touch’ principles will help steer and support ESBs on issues such as how the board is set up and the strategic relationships they should have at all levels. The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) and Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) also recognise that Regional Skills Partnerships (RSPs) are in many cases evolving to meet the challenges of changing skills needs. The two departments are committed to supporting RSPs and have begun work to look at how they can support RSPs in this process and to ensure they continue to play an on-going partnership working role between the regional, sub-regional and local level. Both of these joint departmental projects will look at relationships with the Skills Funding Agency.
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