Local Skills Improvement Plan
Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce was commissioned by DfE to deliver the Local Skills Improvement Plans (LSIP) in GM. Every English region will have an LSIP, and they will play a key role in tackling skills shortages by bringing employers, educators and other key stakeholders together to create a blueprint for transforming the skills system to meet local needs.
The Chamber brought On The Level into its LSIP team to design and deliver interviews with business leaders across sectors, with a view to generating direct intelligence of skills gaps and their impact on business performance and confidence.
We designed the interview process and used our extensive network to line up interviews with leaders across sectors, eventually delivering over 120 interviews over a 7-month period. This research directly fed into the final LSIP report, which was delivered to DfE in May 2023.