Skills and Employment Board – Minutes
25 February 2021 14:00 - 16:00
Members present
|
Organisation |
Member |
Role |
|
York College |
Lee Probert (LP) (Chair) |
Chief Executive & Principal |
|
City of York Council - Executive |
Councillor Andrew Waller (CAW) |
Executive Member - Economy and Strategic Planning |
|
Netsells |
Bethan Vincent (BV) |
Marketing Director |
|
University of York |
Professor Kiran Trehan (KT) |
Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Partnerships and Engagement |
|
York St John University |
Professor Karen Bryan (KB) |
Vice-Chancellor |
|
York Jobcentre |
Angela Stabeler(AS) |
York & North Yorkshire Employer and Partnership Manager |
|
West & North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce |
Mark Goldstone (MG) |
Head of Policy and Business Representation |
|
York and North Yorkshire LEP |
Jude Knight (JK) |
Head of Skills |
|
Simpson York Limited |
Amanda Davidson (AD) |
HR Manager |
|
Askham Bryan College |
Dr Tim Whitaker (TW) |
Chief Executive |
|
Federation of Small Businesses |
Caroline Chapman |
Business Owner and Member Representative |
|
University of York |
Amanda Selvaratnam (ASe) |
Associate Director of Research and Enterprise and Head of Enterprise Services |
In attendance
|
Organisation |
Representative |
Role |
|
City of York Council |
Simon Brereton (SB) |
Head of Economic development |
|
City of York Council |
Alison Edeson (AE) |
Skills Team Manager |
|
Annabel Jelley Consulting |
Annabel Jelley (AJ) |
Strategy development consultant |
Apologies
|
Organisation |
Representative |
Role |
|
The Skills Network |
Mark Dawe (MD) |
Chief Executive |
|
TUC |
Gareth Forest (GF) |
Policy & Campaigns |
|
City of York Council |
Maxine Squire (MS) |
Assistant Director - Education and Skills |
|
City of York Council |
Claire Foale (CF) |
Communications Team |
Minutes
1. Introduction
Lee Probert (Chair) welcomed members to the meeting.
Apologies had been received from Mark Dawe (The Skills Network), Gareth Forest (TUC), Maxine Squire (City of York Council) and Claire Foale (City of York Council).
2. Minutes from last meeting 17 December 2021
The minutes were agreed as a true record of the meeting that took place on 29 January 2020.
LP updated on progress with the Department for Education’s plans for Local Skills Partnership pilots, with reference to the considerations of geographical footprints, and purpose of the College Business Centres. No final policy position has been determined. He will keep a watching brief and report back in due course.
AE reported that other actions were complete.
3. One Year ‘Skills for Employment Plan’ update
AE gave an update on the progress of the One Year Skills for Employment Plan which had been circulated to members prior to the meeting. AE thanked members for their input to the plan and explained that additional feedback had been received; a fifth commitment had been created which relates to the communication aspects of the plan. This incorporates existing bullet points from the other four commitments into one new commitment entitled ‘York shares’, and aligns with the recovery communications plan that was shared with the Board in December.
Final amendments to be made ahead of the plan being taken to the council’s Executive Member for Economy and Place Decision Session on 23 March - papers for this session will be published one week before.
Action: Send any further amendments to the One Year Plan to AE by Thursday 4 March.
AS updated members on the activity to deliver on the commitments of the One Year Plan. Four task groups have been formed (one for each of the commitments) and each is led by one of the four learning institutions in the partnership. Each institution also has representation in each of the other groups. City of York Council is leading on the fifth, communications, commitment (York shares).
Each group is working on developing an implementation plan for their commitment and members are welcome to contribute to this work. It was recognised that the plan would cover initiatives that were deliverable in the 12-month period but also those that may only begin in the first year and will be completed in the following years. This will form the building blocks of the 2-5 Year Skills Strategy which the Task & Finish group is working on in parallel.
4. 2 -5 Year Skills Strategy update
AJ gave a presentation on progress so far with the 2-5yr Skills Strategy which focused on several priority sectors in York following on from discussion at the last meeting. A discussion followed the presentation and comments were noted to inform the strategy.
Sectors covered included Creative and Communications, Heritage, Agritech/Bioeconomy and Life Sciences, Health and Social Care and Retail.
Members requested a focus on the rail industry and themes of entrepreneurship and gender (in relation to full time/part time work and reskilling) to be considered in the strategy, and it was agreed these would be covered at a future Skills and Employment Board meeting.
5. Next steps
The next meeting is scheduled for 16th March. AE and LP would review the focus of that meeting and consider whether an additional or replacement meeting should be scheduled for April, noting another is currently planned for 6th May.
6. AOB None
Action Log
|
No |
Action |
Who |
By when |
Date completed |
|
001 |
Share copy of economic presentation |
SB |
W/E 8 January 2021 |
8 January 2021 |
|
002 |
Share copy of Timeline |
AE |
W/E 8 January 2021 |
8 January 2021 |
|
Amend ToR and issue final version |
AE |
W/E 8 January 2021 |
8 January 2021 |
|
|
004 |
Share copy of communications strategy presentation |
AE |
W/E 8 January 2021 |
8 January 2021 |
|
005 |
Circulate dates for early 2021 meetings |
LP |
W/E 8 January 2021 |
8 January 2021 |
|
006 |
Circulate emerging priorities for comment and set out plan ahead of March 2021 |
AE, AJ, AS, LP |
End January 2021 |
29 January 2021 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
007 |
Share copy One Year Plan presentation |
AE |
29 January 2021 |
29 January 2021 |
|
008 |
Raise question of LSIP pilot at Higher York |
LP |
W/E 5 February 2021 |
|
|
009 |
Follow up on LSIP pilot next steps with MG |
LP/AE |
W/E 19 February 2021 |
|
|
010 |
Members to feed into One Year Plan any extra comments |
All |
W/E 5 February 2021 |
05 February 2021 |
|
011 |
Members to inform AJ if they wish to join a task and finish group for 2-5 year Plan |
All |
W/E 5 February 2021 |
05 February 2021 |
|
012 |
Provide update on Local Skills Partnership Pilots when more is known from DfE |
LP |
Ongoing |
|
|
013 |
Send any further amendments to the One Year Plan to AE |
All |
4 March 2021 |
Completed |