Part 1: Skills and Education for Work Chapter 1: Education and Training for Local Needs
This chapter aims to create a framework to facilitate stronger employer and provider engagement in local skills systems. This framework will ensure employers have more influence over the skills system, which will assist providers to respond to employers’ skills needs and reshape their offer. Employer representative bodies will work with employers, providers and local stakeholders to develop local skills improvement plans that set out the key changes needed to ensure technical education and training is more responsive to local labour market skills needs.
	A new duty will ensure that all colleges and designated institutions regularly review the provision of education in an objective and holistic way, having regard to local needs and encompassing the needs of both learners and employers within a local area.  Creating a statutory duty will strengthen accountability and will ensure that aligning provision with local needs is a priority for governing bodies.