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The South West Regional Employment & Skills Partnership (SW RESP) brings together employers and businesses, public funders of training, training providers and groups representing individual needs.

The Partnership is 'owned' bu the business and learning community with a common goal - matching individual skills to the employer needs in South West England.

The SW RESP focuses on ensuring that employers and businesses in the region have access to the skills they need to prosper and that individuals can get the training required to enable them to fulfil their career potential and ambitions within South West England.

Overall our region has:

• A healthy labour market, however in places it is characterised by having low value added, low wages and low productivity
• Priorities include: ‘Support Business Productivity', 'Encourage New Enterprise', 'Deliver Skills for the Economy', 'Compete in the Global Economy' and 'Promote Innovation' with varying skills needs and issues 
• A need to improve literacy and numeracy
• A net outflow of young people and graduates