South West Regional Employment & Skills Board

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South West Regional Employment & Skills Board

The RESB evolved in response to the Government’s national Skills Strategy White Paper 21st Century Skills: Realising our Potential 2003. The White Paper set out the need for a more integrated approach to tackling skills and employment, and the creation of stronger partnerships between employers and those public sector strategic bodies involved in delivering skills, training and business support.

The RESB works to agree priority actions that: align with policy and which help to address the critical skills requirements, so as to increase the competitiveness of the region as a whole.

Partners work together to:

• Evaluate, research and respond to the skills needs of businesses
• Map how these needs are met by key funding partners
• Identify skills gaps
• Monitor and respond to regional skills performance
• Engage with sub-regional skills partnerships, notably ESB’s, to ensure skills strategies and actions are joined-up and coherent
• Engage with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Department for Children, Schools and Families
• Support the South West Regional Development Agency in its new Regional Skills Strategy setting role
• Support the Government Office of the South West in the development of the Regional ESF Strategic Frameworks