Sector Skills Councils

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 external link Property, housing, cleaning services, parking and facilities management
IMI external link The retail motor industry
Cogent external link Bioscience, Chemical, nuclear, oil and gas, petroleum and polymer industries
Construction Skills external link Construction
Creative and Cultural Skills external link Craft, cultural heritage, design, literature, music, visual and performing arts
Energy and Utility Skills external link Electricity, gas, waste management and water industries
E-Skills NI external link Information technology, telecommunications and contact centres
Financial Skills Partnership external link Financial services finance and accounting sectors
Improve Ltd external link Food and drink manufacturing and processing
Lantra external link Environmental and land-based industries
People 1st external link Hospitality, leisure, passenger transport, travel and tourism
SEMTA NI external link Science, engineering and manufacturing technologies (including Composities)
SkillsActive external link Active leisure, Learning and Well-being
Skills for Care and Development external link Early years, children and young people's services, social work and social care for adults and children
Skills for Health external link The health sector across the UK
Skills for Justice external link 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 external link Freight logistics industry, and Wholesale
Skillset external link Broadcast, film, video, interactive media, photo imaging, publishing and advertising.  Fashion and Textiles (from 1 April 2010)
SummitSkills external link Building services engineering