Local Skills Improvement Plan (LSIP)

The Government is committed to shaping a skills system that effectively meets local industries’ needs. Local Skills Improvement Plans (LSIPs) are a major driver for this, detailing actionable priorities based on local employers’ skills needs identified through research. Skills providers can use their local plan to inform the nature and content of their provision and support the delivery of other services, such as career advice. In this way, they ensure they are developing individuals with the skills needed to find jobs quickly and to meet local employer requirements.

The LSIP places employers at the heart of local skills systems, facilitates collaboration between employers, providers and stakeholders, and helps learners gain skills for good careers.

Local Skills Investment Fund (LSIF)

The LCR LSIP highlights the need for short, intensive courses as a priority, shorter even than Skills Bootcamps. It also identifies several key areas that employers are experiencing skills shortages, including carbon reduction and digitalisation. The Local Skills Improvement Fund, set aside to deliver the LSIP priorities, has enabled the development of several short courses to address this requirement.

GMLPF alongside the Association of Liverpool City Region Colleges, local colleges and through other organisations such as AELP and the Northern Skills Network is looking to promote the development of these programmes and find ways to support the mainstreaming of such courses.

Over the coming year there will be further work and some opportunities for learning providers to get more involved in the programme. We will use this site to promote those opportunities, some of which will be of interest to members.

What is the Long-Term Skills Plan

The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority is producing a long-term skills plan. This is a 10-year skills plan to be underpinned by a series of multi-annual delivery plans.

The Long Term Skills Plan is an evolving document and is being developed over time using a structured programme of consultation with stakeholders including learning providers. This document will help shape investment in post-16 education and skills over the coming years. As the plan evolves and approaches completion we will look to share the final document and action plan.