Skills East Sussex sector task groups
The task groups are the ‘engine rooms’ of Skills East Sussex, working as partnerships to deliver activities that address employability and skills challenges. Everything from careers campaigns, to new or adapted curriculum, networking, recruitment and retention opportunities to upskilling and profile raising and everything in between.
The task groups allow members to collaborate on the planning of future skills and employment strategies for East Sussex. This ensures that local needs for each sector are being prioritised.
Each group has objectives related to:
- improving careers related learning and labour market information in schools
- influencing the Further and Higher Education curriculum to meet the changing needs of business
- ensuring young people are ready for the world of work
- growing apprenticeships and higher-level learning
- supporting their sector's professional development of skills for teachers and lecturers
Task Group priority sectors
The task groups address the skills, training and employment priorities in each of the following sectors:
The task groups are coordinated and managed by the Skills East Sussex team and meet 4 times a year. Meetings are a mix of online and in-person.
Membership of the skills sector task groups
Membership of the task groups
The industry task groups are employer led.
Members of the skills sector task groups include:
- local employers and representative organisations
- members of the Skills East Sussex team, including the Careers Hub
- colleges and universities
- Independent training providers
- Department for Work & Pensions (DWP)/Job Centre
We are happy to welcome new members, especially local employers and those working in the county, as well as business representative organisations. Please email Skills East Sussex to find out more about what we do and to join.
Construction and Built Environment Task Group
Construction and the built environment is a significant industry in East Sussex. With many small businesses and sole traders, jobs are 46% above the national average for the working population.
The Construction Task Group meets quarterly to champion employability and skills for this sector and coordinate activities and support the strategic priorities of Skills East Sussex. Built environment is also represented in this group.
The group sets a strategic plan annually in September, to drive forward partnership activities.
The group includes local employers such as:
- GM Monk
- Cheesmur Building Contractors Ltd
- OHM Energy
- Hawes Building Contractors
Other members include national construction employers, especially when they have building contracts in East Sussex, such as
- Morgan Sindall
- Balfour Beatty
- Jacobs
- Wilmott Dixon
- Volker Fitzpatrick
Education and training representatives and other stakeholders include:
- East Sussex College Group
- Construction Industry Training Board (CITB)
- University of Brighton
- Employment and skills departments of the local authorities.
- DWP Job Centre
The task group is chaired by Scott Monk of GM Monk Ltd, an electrical contractor company.
Chair Scott Monk, Director of GM Monk Ltd
The task group is vital to ensure the current and future challenges of skills and training in construction are represented at a local level for employers, training providers and other agencies. By working together, the task group has become stronger in identifying these needs and working to overcome the challenges. One of the main reasons I enjoy chairing this group is the communication, sharing of best practice and ideas the different employers in Construction bring to the table to assist training providers and the local councils/other agencies with their future training and skills development plans.
2024/25 Strategic Plan activities
| Partnership activities | |
|---|---|
| 1. Raise profile of careers in the sector (young people, job seekers, returners – note parents as key), including diversity | Access the resource and expertise of national sector bodies to support activities/raise the profile of the sector at a national level. |
| Construction sector attendance at careers events/fairs (eg hands on demo area at Big Futures) | |
| Develop multi-employer showcase videos with support from national body task group members (noting importance of parents) to illustrate progression, pathways, earning potential | |
| Raise the profile of ‘back office’ roles such as estimators and surveyors | |
| 2. Help industry to engage with education/ training provision to inform curriculum/ respond to industry need | Continue to recruit businesses to engage with career hub offers, such as Industry Champions, involvement in bespoke Teachers encounters and open doors. |
| Build in real world opportunities for careers/teaching staff and students (eg Open Doors through the careers hub), as well as job centre advisors | |
| Progress potential for skills bootcamp. | |
| Look at what upskilling/in-house training is needed for existing staff | |
| 3. Resources provision | Promote incentives/access to employability and skills support provided through Transform, CITB and other sector bodies |
| 4. Widening the net of recruitment/diversity into the sector (linked to activity 1) | Access armed forces organisations (e.g Reed in Partnership Career Transition Partnership contract), HM Prison Service and national bodies as a means to widen the pool of interest in sector jobs |
| Garner support of national bodies | |
| Increase opportunities for SEND young people (Eg careers hub/Steps to Success) | |
| Promote opportunities in construction to women | |
| 5. Value of Maths and English in the workplace | Bringing employer voice to young people – how maths and English are practically applied in the sector (relating curriculum to real life) |
| Map good practice both locally and nationally, work to embed this across the county | |
| Addressing barriers of maths and English qualifications to uptake and success in employment and apprenticeships | |
| 6. Retrofit Skill Strategy | Building on activities successfully delivered through the DESNZ funded Retrofit Skills Plan |
| Working with Public Health to continue to raise the profile and skills levels within the construction workforce, public sector, education and job seekers | |
| 7. Drive forward activities through Sub-groups: | Raising the profile of careers |
| Recruitment practices and diversity | |
| Retrofit Strategy & Partnership |
Construction Task Group meetings
Please find below the action notes of recent task group meetings.
The next meeting of the group is on 21 November 2024.
Contact Skills East Sussex if you are a sector employer, training or education provider and want details. Other than your time, and occasional travel, there are no costs to joining Skills East Sussex meetings.
- Construction Task Group minutes, 22 February 2024, held at the OHM/ESCH Green Skills Training Hub
If you wish to see minutes of a meeting not listed, please email Skills East Sussex and we will do our best to help.
Task group achievements
- Developed a bid and coordinated a partnership Retrofit strategy and activities via funding secured from DESNZ and Public Health. Offering free retrofit training and resources for construction businesses, council officers, housing associations and job centres, careers campaign in schools, recruitment of tutors and new Level 3 training.
- Development of a Tutor Encounters event for the construction and engineering/ advanced manufacturing sectors - delivered in July 2023, enabling schools careers leads, teachers and college tutors to better understand the future needs of the sector and network with businesses through workshops, practical demonstrations and learning sessions.
- Job role videos created showcasing construction roles on the East Sussex Careers Hub website
- Delivery of a ‘design a flyer’ competition with 16 – 18 students to promote apprenticeships in construction to the sector
- Endorsement of a University of Brighton bid. The bid secured £100K for development of degree level construction apprenticeships.
- Key work with Sussex Council of Training Providers (SCTP) to support engagement between business and education. This informed co-design of the curriculum and recruitment of tutors from industry
- Representing the construction sector at careers/apprenticeships event annually, including the East Sussex Apprenticeship Graduation ceremonies, Big Futures and East Sussex Apprenticeship Roadshows.
- Supporting the Primary and Secondary Careers Hubs through the Enterprise Adviser Network, Industry Champions and Open Doors workplace visit programme. Read more about the Careers Hub
Creative, Cultural, Digital and Media Task Group
East Sussex is a growing hub for these sectors, with several clusters across the county. The Task Group meets quarterly to champion employability and skills and coordinate activities and support the strategic priorities of Skills East Sussex. The group sets a strategic plan annually in September, to drive forward partnership activities.
The Group includes representatives from local employers, these include
- De La Warr Pavilion
- Technative
- Glyndebourne
- Bark Web Ltd
- Chalk Eastbourne/Switchplane
- Spunglass Theatre
There are also representatives from education and training and other stakeholders including:
- East Sussex College Group
- Culture Shift
- University of Brighton
- Sussex Council of Training Providers (SCTP)
- DWP Job centres
The Group is jointly chaired by Kim Byford, Project Director, Talent Accelerator programme (Del La Warr Pavilion) and Sally Staples, Cultural Strategy Manager of East Sussex County Council.
Co-Chair Kim Byford, Project Director, Talent Accelerator (De La Warr Pavilion)
I am part of the task group as I think it is essential to bring together people from industry, education, support services and county council to support our thriving creative and cultural industries now and into the future.
Co-Chair Sally Staples, Cultural Strategy Manager East Sussex County Council
The cultural sector is one of the fastest growing sectors in the UK economy. The skills agenda is a complex one and through my role as Co-Chair I value the opportunity to bring together the work of Culture East Sussex (the cultural sectoral group of Team East Sussex) and the amazing work of Skills East Sussex
2024/25 Strategic Plan activities
| Partnership activities | |
|---|---|
| 1. Raise the profile of the sector | Delivery of the Digital Future Accelerator project, with funding secured from the Careers and Enterprise Company. Raising the profile of the sector by offering secondary school students the chance to be paired with a business mentor and submit an entry for a competition to find a digital solution to something they are passionate about. As well as funding extra capacity for the Transform programme to support small businesses to access apprenticeships and training. |
| Access the resource and expertise of national sector bodies to support activities/raise the profile of the sector at a national level. | |
| Act as the area board for the Coastal Catalyst project through funding secured from Arts Council National Lottery Project Grant scheme. Offering opportunities to raise the profile of the sector, provide business encounters and sector opportunities for young people. | |
| Consider opportunities for business encounters that meet the micro/freelance nature of the sector. (eg: pilot shared work experience across businesses) | |
| Encourage involvement in careers hub activities (eg Industry Champion) and share opportunities through the task group and wider networks for engagement with young people | |
| 2. Help industry to engage with education/ training provision to inform curriculum/ respond to industry need | Map gaps in provisions to help direct activity |
| Build in real world opportunities for careers/teaching staff and students (eg Open Doors through the careers hub), as well as job centre advisors | |
| Progress potential for Skills Bootcamps | |
| 3. Resources provision | Develop re-branding approach – simple cohesive explanation on what the sector is for use by partners. |
| Map employability and skills best practice – what could be embedded or delivered in East Sussex. Eg – Eastbourne Alive learning. | |
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4. Widening the net of recruitment/diversity into the sector (linked to activity 1) |
Use the micro/small nature of the sector and flexible recruitment approach this enables to encourage alternative recruitment methods to support diversity into the sector (eg neurodiverse, young job seekers etc). Using Jerwood Foundation framework as a best practice approach alongside peer sector experience to encourage involvement |
| Access armed forces organisations as means to widen the pool of interest in sector jobs | |
| 5. Value of Maths and English in the workplace | Bringing employer voice to young people – how maths and English are practically applied in the sector (relating curriculum to real life) |
| Map good practice both locally and nationally, work to embed this across the county | |
| Addressing barriers of maths and English qualifications to uptake and success in employment and apprenticeships | |
Creative and Digital Task Group meetings
Contact Skills East Sussex if you are a sector employer, training or education provider and want details. Other than your time, and occasional travel, there are no costs to joining Skills East Sussex meetings.
The next meeting of the group is on Tuesday 3rd December 2024.
Please find below the minutes of recent meetings.
- Creative, Cultural and Digital Media Task Group minutes 5 March 2024, held at Glyndebourne Opera House and MS Teams
- Creative, Cultural and Digital Media Task Group minutes 6 December 2023, held remotely on MS Teams
If you wish to see minutes of a meeting not listed, please email Skills East Sussex and we will do our best to help.
Task Group achievements
- Supported the development of a Tutor Encounters event for the sector building on the successful 2023 construction sector event. Offered careers and subject leads from schools and colleges to upskill so they can gain knowledge on a particular sector to help better advise and inform young people, as well as develop relationships with professionals in the sector.
- Secured £200,000 funding for the Talent Accelerator programme, led by the De La Warr Pavilion. Talent Accelerator is about creating a strategic step-change in creative and digital sector skills, careers and project-based learning. It is developing a more joined-up infrastructure between industry and education. This includes work experience, and a range of employer encounters such as careers workshops, events and assemblies. Further funding has been secured through the Coastal Catalyst project.
- Secured Ingenious funding which enabled Culture Shift project to deliver a project with Bexhill college, as well as taking on a digital marketing apprentice.
- East Sussex Library Service and the County Council's Employment and Skills Team successfully carried out an European Social Fund (ESF) tablet loaning scheme. It helped 40 ESF participants from Brighton, Eastbourne, Hastings and Wealden during the pandemic lockdowns. TechResort highlighted need for more donations of hardware to repurpose and loan out.
- Representatives from the task group worked with the South East Local Enterprise Partnership (SELEP) Digital Skills Partnership. The partnership comprised stakeholders from across the South East to increase awareness and access to digital skills training across the region.
- Introduced job role videos on the Careers East Sussex website, including programmers and software developers, marketing professionals and copywriters and cyber security officers.
Engineering and Manufacturing Task Group
East Sussex is a centre for engineering and manufacturing, with a wide range of size and variety of type. The county is known for its specialism in vacuum engineering with clusters of activity in Hastings and Eastbourne.
The Task Group meets quarterly to champion employability and skills and coordinate activities and support the to address the strategic priorities of Skills East Sussex for these sectors. The group sets a strategic plan annually in September, to drive forward partnership activities.
The Task Group includes representatives from local employers, these include
- Kurt J Lesker
- Marshall Tufflex
- General Dynamics
- Edwards Vacuum
- Interface Precision Engineering Ltd
- Focus SB
- Photek
There are also representatives from education and training and other stakeholders including
- East Sussex College Group (ESCG)
- Bexhill College
- University of Brighton.
- University of Sussex
- Sussex Council of Training Providers (SCTP)
- DWP Job Centre
- Institute of Directors
- National body support (including Royal Academy of Engineering, Engineering UK, Society of Operational Engineers)
The task group is chaired by Dan Wahnon of Marshall-Tufflex.
Chair Dan Wahnon, Operations Manager Marshall-Tufflex
As the Operations Manager at Marshall Tufflex, a British manufacturer of cable management solutions, I'm committed to ensuring that engineering and manufacturing sectors in East Sussex thrive with a skilled, work-ready talent pool. Chairing the Engineering and Manufacturing Task Group enables us to shape career pathways, influence curricula to meet industry demands, and strengthen ties between education providers and employers. Our efforts support not only young people's future in this sector but also the continuous professional development of educators, ensuring our workforce remains adaptable and innovative.
2024/25 Strategic Plan activities
Engineering Task Group meetings
| Partnership activities | |
|---|---|
| 1. Raise the profile of the sector | Roll out delivery of Royal Academy of Engineering (RAENG) funded Engineering After School Club project. Working with two primary schools to pilot engineer-led after school clubs with year 5/6 pupils to raise the profile of the sector and spark curiosity. The learning of which is hoped to act as a blueprint for roll it our wider and into other sectors. |
| Access the resource and expertise of national sector bodies to support activities/raise the profile of the sector at a national level. | |
| Submit funding bid for delivery of a year long careers campaign, including a STEAMfest event, increasing engagement with sector and young people/job seekers. | |
| 2. Help industry to engage with education/training provision (inform curriculum/ respond to industry need) | Map gaps in provisions to help direct activity |
| Build in real world opportunities for careers/teaching staff and students (eg Open Doors through the careers hub) | |
| Progress potential for skills bootcamps | |
| Increase employer engagement in course development and through the task groups. | |
| 3. Resources provision | Develop re-branding approach – simple cohesive explanation on what the sector is for use by partners. |
| Map employability and skills best practice – what could be embedded or delivered in East Sussex | |
| 4. Widening the net of recruitment/diversity into the sector (linked to activity 1) | Information provision for businesses on alternative recruitment methods to support diversity into the sector (eg neurodiverse, females, young job seekers etc). Using peer sector experience to encourage involvement |
| Access armed forces organisations as means to widen the pool of interest in sector jobs | |
| 5. Value of Maths and English in the workplace | Bringing employer voice to young people – how maths and English are practically applied in the sector (relating curriculum to real life) |
| Map good practice both locally and nationally, work to embed this across the county | |
| Addressing barriers of maths and English qualifications to uptake and success in employment and apprenticeships |
Contact Skills East Sussex if you are a sector employer, training or education provider and want details. Other than your time, and occasional travel, there are no costs to joining Skills East Sussex meetings.
Please find below the action notes of recent task group meetings.
- Engineering Task Group minutes, 8 December 2023, held remotely on MS Teams
If you wish to see minutes of a meeting not listed, please email Skills East Sussex and we will do our best to help.
Task group achievements
- Piloted a new ‘strategic plan on a page’ approach for the task groups, engaging national sector bodies to offer expertise and resources and insight and ongoing support for the group.
- Successfully awarded funding from the Royal Academy of Engineers Ingenious Awards programme for a pilot Engineering After School Club in Hastings during 2025. The learning of which is hoped to act as a blueprint for roll it our wider and into other sectors.
- Supported development and delivery of Engineering and Construction Tutor Encounters Day, a CPD knowledge and upskilling event for tutors on a specific sector. It is an opportunity to hear from employers, make connections, and inspire their students to consider a career in the sectors.
- Development of a new CNC (Computer Numerical Controlled) course with East Sussex College, Hastings.
- Introduced job roles videos on the Careers East Sussex website, including CNC machinist and heat pump engineer, with more planned.
- Culture Shift led a project called ‘Your Town’. The project was funded through the Royal Academy of Engineering Ingenious Fund. This allowed young people aged 11 to 18 in Hastings, Eastbourne and Newhaven to meet with engineers and find out more about what they do.
Health and Social Care Task Group
The Task group is the only one of the groups to operate Pan-Sussex across East and West Sussex and Brighton and Hove, reflecting the make-up of the NHS across the region.
The Health and Social Care sector is large and wide-ranging with over 350 job roles. Pan Sussex the sector is facing major challenges in recruitment and retention in some areas such as care, adult social care and allied roles including midwifery and nursing. Alongside this digital technology is changing the face of healthcare, creating efficiencies, changes to processes as well as requirement for a digitally skilled workforce to meeting these changes.
The group includes representatives from local employers and national bodies this includes:
- Skills for Care
- NHS England – South East
- NHS Sussex
- Adult Social Care from East and West Sussex and Brighton and Hove Councils
- Community Pharmacy
- East Sussex NHS Healthcare Trust
- East Sussex Integrated Care Board
There are also representatives from education and training and other stakeholders including:
- East Sussex College Group
- University of Brighton
- Sussex Council of Training Providers (SCTP)
- DWP Job centres
- Reed in Partnership
- Spear Hastings
The task group is chaired by Kathy Martyn of University of Brighton.
Chair Kathy Martyn, Principal Lecturer Nutrition University of Brighton
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2024/25 Strategic Plan activities
| Partnership activities | |
|---|---|
| 1. Raise the profile of the sector | Delivery and roll out of Recruitment Hub campaign, in [partnership with the NHS and Adult Social Care. Focussed on showcasing 10 job roles through job pathway videos, infographics, posters and social media |
| Access the resource and expertise of national sector bodies (Skills for Care Workforce Strategy and NHS England) to support activities/raise the profile of the sector at a national level. | |
| Encourage involvement in careers hub activities (eg Industry Champion) and share opportunities through the task group and wider networks for engagement with young people. | |
| Set up Task Group subgroup to focus on profile raising/promotion activities for the sector. | |
| 2. Help industry to engage with education/ training provision to inform curriculum/ respond to industry need | Utilise sector networks to engage sector businesses and organisations, making them aware of opportunities available |
| Build in real world opportunities for careers/teaching staff and students (eg Open Doors through the careers hub), as well as job centre advisors | |
| Progress potential for skills bootcamps | |
| Identify and progress upskilling opportunities (eg such as digital skills development). | |
| 3. Resources provision | Map employability and skills best practice – what could be embedded or delivered in East Sussex. |
| 4. Widening the net of recruitment/diversity into the sector (linked to activity 1) | Look at opportunities to target particular pools of job seekers/young people (Ieg migrants/refugees through ESTAR, care leavers, exiting service personnel) |
| 5. Value of Maths and English in the workplace | Bringing employer voice to young people – how maths and English are practically applied in the sector (relating curriculum to real life) |
| Map good practice both locally and nationally, work to embed this across the county | |
| Addressing barriers of maths and English qualifications to uptake and success in employment and apprenticeships |
Health and Social Care Task Group meetings
Contact Skills East Sussex if you are a sector employer, training or education provider and want details. Other than your time, and occasional travel, there are no costs to joining Skills East Sussex meetings.
Please find below the action notes of recent task group meetings.
- Health and Social Care Task Group 16 April 2024 - remotely on MS Teams
- Health and Social Care Task Group 1 February 2024 -
If you wish to see minutes of a meeting not listed, please email Skills East Sussex and we will do our best to help.
Task Group achievements
- East Sussex College Group (ESCG) responded to demand in developing an ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) course specifically for workers in health and care.
- Supported development and delivery of a Health and Social Care Teachers Encounters day, enabling curriculum teacher and careers leads to link with local businesses through facilitated workshop to increase their knowledge and embed this knowledge through the curriculum and careers provision.
- Set up a Task Group subgroup focussed on Pharmacy to address recruitment challenges and to support the community sector to navigate the apprenticeship process. Recruitment for 2024 has increased and on an ongoing relationship developed with community and pharmacy and NHS England.
- A joint presentation was given by the universities of Brighton and Chichester on Nursing Associate programmes. A task group sub-group worked with providers on making these courses more attractive and accessible, particularly to those with level 2 maths and English but not GCSEs.
Visitor Economy Task Group
The Visitor economy is a key sector in East Sussex accounting for more than a third of the jobs in some areas. It is wide ranging, with member cross overs with the creative and digital task group. The sector is facing challenges from covid and the cost of living crisis over and above employability and skills challenges associated with the sector (perceptions, seasonality etc).
The Task Group meets quarterly to champion employability and skills and coordinate activities and support the to address the strategic priorities of Skills East Sussex for these sectors. The group sets a strategic plan annually in September, to drive forward partnership activities.
The Task Group comprises includes representatives from local employers and representative organisations such as:
- The Lansdowne Hotel
- Visit 1066 Country Marketing
- Eastbourne Hospitality Association
- Experience Sussex
- The Beacon
- De La Warr Pavilion
- Eastbourne Chamber
There are also representative from education and training and other stakeholders including
- East Sussex College Group
- Bexhill College
- DWP Job Centre
- Visit England
- Sussex Council of Training Providers (SCTP)
- Councillors with Lead responsibility for visitor economy/tourism
Chair of Visitor Economy Task Group, Julie Barker, MIoD, FIH, PGcert
Supporting the Visitor Economy sector within East Sussex, helping shape future skills and employment needs of the region, encouraging all ages and skills to see the scope and potential of a lifelong career within the hospitality industry is an honour and a privilege
2024/25 Strategic Plan activities
| Partnership activities | |
|---|---|
| 1. Raise the profile of the sector | Access the resource and expertise of national sector bodies to support activities/raise the profile of the sector at a national level. |
| Increase awareness of opportunities, pathways, progression routes in the sector | |
| Ongoing strategic relationship with Experience Sussex and employability and skills through their development plan. | |
| Develop and deliver pilot hospitality schools competition – giving young people the opportunity to meet people from the sector, learn about pathways into and spark interest. | |
| Encourage involvement in careers hub activities (eg Industry Champion) and share opportunities through the task group and wider networks for engagement with young people. | |
| Teachers Encounters planned for June 2025, focussed on visitor Economy. Enabling curriculum teacher and careers leads to link with local businesses through facilitated workshop to increase their knowledge and embed this knowledge through the curriculum and careers provision. | |
| 2. Help industry to engage with education/ training provision to inform curriculum/ respond to industry need | Increase the numbers of placements/opportunities for young people to engage with the sector |
| Build in real world opportunities for careers/teaching staff and students (eg Open Doors through the careers hub), as well as job centre advisors | |
| Progress potential for skills bootcamps | |
| 3. Resources provision | Look at developing a resource/roadmap of employability and skills provision locally to create one point of information |
| 4. Widening the net of recruitment/diversity into the sector (linked to activity 1) | Encourage alternative recruitment methods to support diversity into the sector (eg neurodiverse, young job seekers etc). Using Jerwood Foundation framework as a best practice approach alongside peer sector experience to encourage involvement |
| Identify the barriers to employers having young people on placement/work experience | |
| 5. Value of Maths and English in the workplace | Bringing employer voice to young people – how maths and English are practically applied in the sector (relating curriculum to real life) |
| Map good practice both locally and nationally, work to embed this across the county | |
| Addressing barriers of maths and English qualifications to uptake and success in employment and apprenticeships |
Visitor Economy Task Group meetings
Please find below the minutes of recent task group meetings.
Contact Skills East Sussex if you are a sector employer, training or education provider and want details. Other than your time, and occasional travel, there are no costs to joining Skills East Sussex meetings.
If you wish to see minutes of a meeting not listed, please email Skills East Sussex and we will do our best to help.
Task group achievements
- ‘Hospitality Rocks’ project saw the DWP and East Sussex College partner through the task group on a social media campaign and Sector Based Work Academies (SWAPs) to drive up recruitment by inviting job seekers to try out cocktail-making or barista, then enrolling them on to a short course with guaranteed vacancies. This was so successful that it was then rolled out by the DWP/job centres to other parts of the country in 2022/23.
- The Transform service provides support for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) with workforce development, specialist advice on skills training and apprenticeships, including access to government-funded training and ESCC apprenticeship levy transfer to fund training. Since November 2020, Transform has supported 37 Visitor Economy businesses.
- Careers Hub has 11 active Industry Champions from the visitor economy and 8 businesses that offer Open Doors workplace visits to groups of students.
- Hospitality Roundtable event was held at the De La Warr Pavilion in jointly hosted by East Sussex and Rother District Council to raise the profile and look at activities to address challenges in the sector.
- For the East Sussex Careers Campaign the task group agreed to promote the following roles: Chef, Hotel and restaurant managers
- Job role career pathway videos and infographics have been created on the Careers East Sussex local industry pages for chef and event manager jobs.
- Supported the establishment of the View Hotel in Eastbourne as a 'Hotel of Excellence'. The View will provide long-term placements for students at the University of Brighton. They also provided up to five 50-day placements for East Sussex College group students as part of their new T-level provision.
- Cross county sector workshop to look at and consider actions which existed cross county for the sector.