Statement of Priorities - Better Skills, Better Jobs, Better Lives

The Learning and Skills Council’s priorities and key actions for 2008/9 to 2010/11

Better Skills, Better Jobs, Better Lives, our Statement of Priorities    sets out the LSC’s focus for the 2008/9 to 2010/11.

The targets contained in the Statement of Priorities reflect an aim to raise the educational achievement of all children and young people, and to narrow the gap in achievement between children from low income families and their peers. For adults, the aim is to improve the skills of the population and deliver a world class skills base by 2020, improving the skills of those in work and importantly those currently not working and excluded from the labour market. 

Meeting these targets will require an increase in the proportion of people of working age achieving functional literacy and numeracy skills, a higher proportion of working adults qualified to at least a full Level 2 and 3 and an increase in the proportion of Apprentices who complete the full Apprenticeship framework.

The Statement of Priorities sets out how the LSC will work with its partners to deliver these targets by focusing on three key priorities:   

1. Creating demand for learning and skills
2. Transforming the FE system to meet demand
3. Delivering better skills, better lives, better jobs

Mark Haysom, Chief Executive of the LSC said:

“We want to reach out to more businesses and more people, to give them the skills they need. This year we are ramping up our focus on people who are not in work. We want to give them the skills they need to break out of the vicious cycle of unemployment and poverty. And we won’t stop there. We want more people to progress in learning – gaining the skills they need to prosper in their chosen careers.”

Please click here to view the Statement of Priorities, Policy Summaries 2008/09 and the LSC grant letter.

Previous years Statement of Priorities

Raising our game 2006

Transforming Learning and Skills 2005