Part 1: Skills and Education for Work Local skills improvement plans Section 1: Local skills improvement plans
This section provides for local skills improvement plans, introducing duties on relevant providers to co-operate with designated employer representative bodies in developing local skills improvement plans and have regard to the plans once they have been developed. Relevant providers are those that provide English-funded post-16 technical education or training that is material to a specified area in England.
	Subsections (1), (2) and (3) provide that those relevant providers must co-operate with a designated employer representative body in the development of a local skills improvement plan for a specified area.
	Subsection (4) sets out provisions for relevant providers to assist to keep plans under review and updated as required and to have regard to the latest plan published by the Secretary of State when making decisions on relevant provision in the specified area.
	Subsection (5) sets out that relevant providers must take account of guidance published by the Secretary of State in connection with this section, including in relation to co-operating with designated employer representative bodies in the development of local skills improvement plans.
	Subsections (6) and (7) set out specific conditions that must be met in order for the Secretary of State to approve and publish a local skills improvement plan, including adaptation to climate change, the UK net zero target, meeting other environmental goals and consideration of the views of Mayoral Combined Authorities and the Greater London Authority.
	Subsection (8) sets out what a local skills improvement plan is and subsection (9) sets out what an approved local skills improvement plan is.