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Our mission is to work with and through our partners to secure a greater commitment to invest in the skills of people to drive, enterprise, jobs and growth.

Our strategic objectives in 2012/13 are:

  • To provide world-class labour market intelligence which helps businesses and people make the best choices for them
  • To work with sectors and business leaders to develop and deliver the best solutions to generate greater employer investment in skills
  • To maximise the impact of changed employment and skills policies and employer behaviour to help drive jobs, growth and an internationally competitive skills base

In pursuit of these objectives, our Commissioners are working towards achieving the following priority outcomes across the UK. Click the images to read more about our work on each outcome:

Outcomes

In order to deliver these outcomes, the UK Commission is delivering on and through the following key work areas. Click to read more about our work in each area:

Assets

Below, you can also browse our work by themes e.g. Apprenticeships, Information, Advice and Guidance etc. Use the A-Z if you know the name of the project you are looking for.

Standards and frameworks Commissioners Investment Employer ownership Investors in People Research

More employers investing in the skills of their people More career opportunities for young people More collective action by employers through stronger sectors and local networks More employers stepping up and taking ownership of skills


Labour Market Intelligence and analysis

  • Defining and measuring training activity

    12 Jun 2012

    The project aimed to understand more fully the responses from the UK Commission’s survey work, which asks employers about the training they provide. We wanted to know how employers thought about the training they do, and how we can improve our surveys to make them best reflect the categories employers themselves use.

  • Employer surveys

    12 Jun 2012

    The UK Commission conducts two major employer surveys on a biennial basis, the UK Employer Skills Survey and the UK Employer Perspectives Survey. These surveys run in alternate years.

  • LMI think pieces

    29 May 2012

    The UK Commission commissioned a number of leading academic experts to undertake ‘think pieces’, setting out how, in their view, current sources of LMI in the UK might be improved.

  • National Strategic Skills Audit

    12 Jun 2012

    The Audit provides detailed intelligence about the operation and structure of the labour market to inform the choices of individuals, employers and providers.

  • Review and analysis of the contribution employers can make to career guidance

    19 Oct 2011

    The overall aim of the work is to review and analyse the evidence available about how employers can best contribute to career guidance that supports unemployed people to enter and progress through work.

  • Using and sharing career related labour market information

    19 Oct 2011

    Support to help people to get into and progress through work, whether provided by a career advisor, Jobcentre Plus staff, or other organisation, should be based on accurate career related labour market information (LMI).

  • Working Futures

    14 Jun 2012

    Working Futures 2010-2020 is the latest in a series of detailed projections of UK employment, productivity, labour supply and skills.


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