Sector Skills Councils

Each Sector Skills Council will agree priorities and targets with its employers and partners to address four key goals:

reducing skills gaps and shortages
improving productivity, business and public service performance
increasing opportunities to boost the skills and productivity of everyone in the sector’s workforce, including action on equal opportunities
improving learning supply, including apprenticeships, higher education and national occupational standards

For more information on Sector Skills Councils visit the individual websites by following the links in the table below:

Sector Skills Councils	Business Area
Asset Skills	Property, housing, cleaning services, parking and facilities management
IMI	The retail motor industry
Cogent	Bioscience, Chemical, nuclear, oil and gas, petroleum and polymer industries
Construction Skills	Construction
Creative and Cultural Skills	Craft, cultural heritage, design, literature, music, visual and performing arts
Energy and Utility Skills	Electricity, gas, waste management and water industries
E-Skills NI	Information technology, telecommunications and contact centres
Financial Skills Partnership	Financial services finance and accounting sectors
Improve Ltd	Food and drink manufacturing and processing
Lantra	Environmental and land-based industries
People 1st	Hospitality, leisure, passenger transport, travel and tourism
SEMTA NI	Science, engineering and manufacturing technologies (including Composities)
SkillsActive	Active leisure, Learning and Well-being
Skills for Care and Development	Early years, children and young people's services, social work and social care for adults and children
Skills for Health	The health sector across the UK
Skills for Justice	Community safety, courts,tribunals and prosecution, custodial care, fire and rescue, forensic science, law enforcement, offender management and support, policing, victim, survivor and witness support, youth justice and the children's workforce. Legal services joined the footprint in 2010/201, justice, court services, customs
Skills for Logistics	Freight logistics industry, and Wholesale
Skillset	Broadcast, film, video, interactive media, photo imaging, publishing and advertising. Fashion and Textiles (from 1 April 2010)
SummitSkills	Building services engineering