SES constitutional documents
Statement of priorities
Skills & Employment East Sussex (SES) has used research conducted by East Sussex County Council into the employment and skills needs within the East Sussex economy and has identified and agreed the following 6 strategic priorities for 2021-2030.
- Priority 1: Influencing national policy and funding to support the delivery of employment support and skills in East Sussex.
- Priority 2: Ensuring that East Sussex has a strong local infrastructure with a high-quality workforce to facilitate the delivery of excellent employment and skills provision in the county.
- Priority 3: Getting our residents ready for emerging opportunities through digital upskilling (including AI tools and use of new technologies in the workplace) and through access to new opportunities within the economy.
- Priority 4: Upskilling our residents of all ages to level 3 via the full range of learning pathways and boosting higher-skills within our workforce to increase regional productivity.
- Priority 5: Supporting unemployed people into sustainable work through tailored programmes, by improving inter-agency working to support employment (e.g. health, childcare and housing) and by supporting employers with inclusive recruitment practice.
- Priority 6: Develop innovative approaches to prevent residents from becoming unemployed.
SES brings together employers, education providers and stakeholders to tackle employment and skills challenges and work collectively to address solutions and meet the priorities set out through sector-based task groups in:
- Engineering and manufacturing
- Construction including civil engineering
- Health and social care
- Creative, cultural, media and digital
- Land, Agricultural and Environmental
- Visitor and economy including tourism
Skills & Employment East Sussex Terms of Reference
Board meeting minutes
Skills & Employment East Sussex meets quarterly and minutes are approved by members at the following meeting. For example, if a meeting is held in July with the next meeting in October, the minutes for July will not appear online until after the October meeting has taken place.
Please see below for the minutes and documents of recent Skills & Employment East Sussex meetings.
The Secretariat aim to have the last three sets of available minutes online.