South West Regional Employment & Skills Board

Structure

The Employment and Skills Partnership is run as a partnership between employers, public funders and providers of employment and skills provision in the South West. The Partnership comprises of the following:

Central Team

The RESB has a core central team that supports the wider activity of the Partnership Contact Us

The Board

The Board provides strategic leadership, driving action to resolve problems and championing collaborative working.

The Alliance

The wider Alliance represents key stakeholders in the employment and skills arena and is the consultative body, bringing emerging issues to the forum and consequently to the Board. The forty plus members of the Alliance bring together a range of specialist interests and expertise from business, employment and skills organisations.

The Alliance partners are responsible for communicating the needs of the business and learning community in the region in order to refine and enable joint partner activity. Thematic Alliance meetings are held quarterly and provide an opportunity for partners to consider, analyse and debate key skills issues on a particular topic. Recommendations are then made to the Board for consideration and action.

Sectors

The Partnership has a very strong cross partner approach to sectors skills activity and research.

Funded By

Regional Development Agency EU