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

Institute of Technology in Coast to Capital EOIs

Please see information document in the 'Related Resources' section of this page, as well as the IoT Wave 2 Prospectus, and the EOI form.

Call for Local Authority Business Representative

POSTPONED - The recruitment process for the local authority representative has been put on hold due to COVID-19.

We currently have a vacancy for a local authority representative, and are looking to recruit a senior individual to represent the views and interests of public business, to support understanding of the skills needs of businesses and to identify where investment is needed.

Skills and Labour Market Research Report

The Skills and Labour Research Project has now been completed and the Baseline Report and Baseline Appendix Report are finalised.

These report 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 reports can be found here and also on the related resources section of this page.

Local Industrial Strategy Engagement - Youth Consultations

Coast to Capital also held a series of engagement workshops with students in three higher and further education institutions across the area, as part of the wider public Local Industrial Strategy engagement. The findings of these youth consultation sessions can be viewed here.

Membership

In accordance with the requirements set out by government for the Skills Advisory Panels, the Skills 360˚ Board is 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)
Winston Mahaffy (Vice Chair)	Managing Director – Defence & Government	Thales
Andrew Currie	Head of Recruitment, Training and Leadership Development	Gatwick Airport
Andy Brown	STP Workforce Director	High Weald Lewes Havens Clinical Commissioning Group
Christina Dennis	Director	WDR Limited
Jenny Andersson	Founder & Director	We Activate the Future
Jonathan Sharrock	Chief Executive Officer	Coast to Capital LEP
Kevin Delf	Chief Executive	Surrey Lifelong Learning Partnership
Liane Richardson	HR Director	Thakeham Homes Ltd
Nick Juba	Chief Executive Officer	Greater Brighton Metropolitan College
Robert Pye	Co-Founder	Ethos
Ruth Whittaker	Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education and Students)	University of Brighton
Simon Pringle	Chief Executive Officer	Red River Software Ltd
Tim Walder	Partner - Aviation Sector Leader & Croydon Office Director	Arcadis