Skills & Employment East Sussex
Skills & Employment East Sussex (SES) is the county’s strategic body for employment and skills. The group works together to improve local employment and skills levels to increase economic prosperity in East Sussex. Skills & Employment East Sussex uses a firm evidence base to agree and set priorities. The group provides direction for the county’s approach to employment and skills.
SES has agreed the following six strategic priorities for 2021-2030:
- Priority 1: Ensuring that national policy and funding supports the delivery of learning and skills in East Sussex
- Priority 2: Enabling our Further Education (FE)/Higher Education (HE) establishments to recruit excellent educators with specialist technical knowledge
- Priority 3: Improving our digital skills and digital inclusion
- Priority 4: Upskilling our workforce to increase regional productivity
- Priority 5: Supporting the unemployed and unqualified
- Priority 6: Skills for a Net Zero future
SES has identified six priority sectors within the county. Work on the priorities is taken forward through the sector task groups. There are sector based Task Groups for the following:
- Construction and Civil Engineering
- Creative, Cultural, Digital and Media
- Engineering and Manufacturing
- Health and Social Care
- Visitor Economy
- Land, Agricultural and Environmental
Read about the work of the Skills & Employment East Sussex sector task groups.
Skills & Employment East Sussex also has working groups looking at key areas across all employment and skills sectors. These are:
- Apprenticeships East Sussex
- Adult Learning Network
For further information on SES and East Sussex County Council's Employability and Skills strategies please click here.