Skills 360˚ Board

Introduction to the Board

The Skills 360˚ Board provides direction and strategic support for the delivery of our ambitious Strategic Economic Plan, Gatwick 360˚, specifically the actions within Priority 4: Create Skills for the Future, where we seek to boost the productivity of our economy by giving people the skills they need to secure and maintain high quality jobs.

Skills Advisory Panels

The Skills 360˚ Board will act as the Skills Advisory Panel (SAP) for the Coast to Capital area, bringing together employers and skills providers to understand and address key local skills challenges, with the aim of developing evidence based analysis to advise and support providers to deliver the skills required by employers.

This will be achieved by ensuring SAPs have strong governance arrangements and meaningful analytical capability to:

generate analysis of their local skills and labour markets to understand the local position
discuss and agree local skills needs priorities in the short-term and more longer-term
consider how these will be met through local provision over time
support the production of strong ‘people pillar’ section of Local Industrial Strategies

Skills and Labour Market Research Project

The Skills and Labour Market Research Project is an exciting opportunity for the Coast to Capital area to gain valuable intelligence and build an evidence base report on the current and future demand for and supply of skills within the local area. This research will feed into and support the development of the ‘people’ section of the Coast to Capital Local Industrial Strategy, as well as the work towards the Gatwick 360˚ priority to Create Skills for the Future.

The first stage of the project is now taking place and an initial desk based research analysis is being conducted. We will be holding a series of research workshops in July 2019 which we would like to invite senior stakeholders to attend, to discuss the data and collect qualitative feedback to supplement the data in the final report.

The workshops will be geographically focused and locations have been chosen across the LEP area.

The dates, timings and locations will be as follows:

Location	Date	Time	Register
Brighthelm Centre Brighton	Tuesday 9 July	10.00am – 1.00pm	Registration is now closed
Three Central Redhill	Friday 12 July	10.00am – 1.00pm	Registration is now closed
Crawley Library Crawley	Monday 15 July	1.00pm – 4.00pm	Registration is now closed
Aldingbourne Trust Chichester	Thursday 18 July	1.00pm – 4.00pm	Registration is now closed

Membership

In accordance with the requirements set out by government for the Skills Advisory Panels, the Skills 360˚ Board will be made up of private business and public sector representatives, the Chief Executive Officer of Coast to Capital and representatives from the education sector and the community and voluntary sector.

Below are the current members of the Skills 360˚ Board:

Name	Job Title	Organisation
Frances Rutter (Chair)	Principal and Chief Executive	North East Surrey College of Technology (NESCOT)
Bob Pickles (Vice Chair)	Head of Corporate & Government Affairs	Canon (UK) UK Ltd
Alison McManamon	Head of Human Resources & Organisational Development	Orbis Partnership(BHCC/ESCC)
Christina Dennis	Director	WDR Limited
Darren Hockaday	Human Resources Director	Gatwick Airport
Debra Humphris	Vice Chancellor	University of Brighton
Gavin Wright	Director of Workforce	Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Jonathan Sharrock	Chief Executive Officer	Coast to Capital LEP
Kevin Delf	Chief Executive	Surrey Lifelong Learning Partnership
Nick Juba	Chief Executive Officer	Greater Brighton Metropolitan College
Oonagh McPhillips	Head of Organisational Development	Ricardo
Robert Pye	Co-Founder	Ethos
Simon Pringle	Chief Executive Officer	Red River Software Ltd
Winston Mahaffy	Managing Director – Defence & Government	Thales
Zoe Wright	HR Director	B & CE