2. Working group
Terms of reference
Championing skills in London and to propose priorities for skills
training;
Make recommendations to the London Enterprise Panel on issues
relating to skills and employment in London, including:
• improving efficiency and effectiveness of existing skills and
employment in the capital
Make recommendations to Government on behalf of business, the
Mayor and boroughs on issues related to skills and employment
3. Working group
Chair: Grant Hearn,
Vice-Chair: Jack Morris, Chairman of Business Design Centre
Group
Members:
• Emma Stuart - Women Like us on behalf of LVSC
• Ian Ashman – Chair, London Association of Colleges
• Ian Mulheirn - Social Market Foundation
• Nigel Carrington – Rector, University of the Arts
• Cllr Steve Reed - London Councils
• Roy O'Shaughnessy – Chief Executive, CDG & Work Programme
• Sue Terpilowski, Chairman London Policy Unit at Federation of Small
Businesses
• John-Paul Marks – Department of Work & Pensions/Job Centre Plus
• Paul Whitmore,- Commercial Director Morgan Sindall Group Plc
5. Supporting the priorities: Key Outputs 2012
• Publication of a Skills & Employment Plan for London by March
2013;
• To deliver this the following areas of research are taking place
over the summer to support the identified priorities:
• Labour Market Forecasting
• Review of the current skills and employment system (in and out
of work)
• Assessing capacity of the system to respond to future skills and
employment needs
• A review of the London Skills & Employment Observatory with
the aim of redeveloping it to make it user-friendly for schools,
Colleges, employers and users
• Increasing levels of employer engagement (business, skills and
employment)
• Development of a part-time working campaign
