Business LDN: Supporting London's Local Skills Improvement Plan
- We supported BusinessLDN on the development of the London Local Skills Improvement Plan, the largest of its kind.
- This explored how the capital’s further education providers would need to respond to the skills increasingly in demand from business; the impact this would have on course provision; and the creation of a roadmap for a system where supply and demand more closely align.
- Our role was to synthesise all the inputs and understand what they meant for skills gaps down to four-digit Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) codes, before supporting in the creation of the roadmap, ahead of the Plan’s submission to the Department of Education.
- Critically, our analysis needed to be clear and readily usable, so that it could inform the policy making process which will now follow at a regional and national level. This is now underway.
Testimonial
“Business LDN were asked by the Department for Education to produce the Local Skills Improvement Plan for London. This was a major, pioneering project that analysed the London labour market and sought to identify how the skills system should change to better meet the skills needs of the Capital’s businesses. To help deliver the project, BusinessLDN commissioned WPI Economics, who brought with them a wealth of experience in this area, from research to stakeholder engagement to report production.”
“WPI ensured the process was executed professionally and the main output – an extensive and accessible final report for the Government’s Secretary of State for Education – was credible, impactful and well received. We’ve been really impressed with the quality of their work and their ability to be flexible and manage challenges along the way, inevitable in a major project of this type. Most of all, they’ve been a joy to work with.”