Local Employability Partnership Summit - In-Work Pogressions

Thu Jan 22 2026 at 09:00 am to 02:00 pm UTC+00:00

Surgeons Quarter | Edinburgh

Edinburgh Local Employability Partnership
Publisher/HostEdinburgh Local Employability Partnership
Local Employability Partnership Summit -  In-Work Pogressions
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Join us at Symposium Auditorium, Surgeons Quarter for solution based conversation on tackling in-work poverty at the LEP Summit.
About this Event

You are invited to attend the upcoming Edinburgh Local Employability Partnership Summit on Thursday 22 January 2026 at the Symposium Auditorium at Surgeons Quarter, 10 Hill Place, Edinburgh EH8 9DS. This is the third Employability Summit where we will focus on the challenges around in-work progressions and attracting and retaining employees.

Speakers include Rona Hunter, Chief Executive Capital City Partnership, Professor Graeme Roy University of Glasgow and Scottish Fiscal Commission, Joanne Davidson Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce, Adam Dunkeley Integrated Regional Employability and Skills PMO, and Mike Jeffries Edinburgh College. We will also have video testimonies from employers and employees.

The purpose of this event is for key influencers and stakeholders to come together to better understand and comment on the difficulties being faced around employment and progressing into better paid work, and to help form actions the Local Employability Partnership can take forward.

Tea and Coffee breaks and Lunch will be provided, please note the agenda on this page for further reference.


Agenda

🕑: 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
Welcome Tea and Coffee at Registration
🕑: 09:30 AM - 09:40 AM
Rona Hunter

Info: Introduction


🕑: 09:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Context and challenges with in-work progression
Host: Graeme Roy
🕑: 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Tea and Coffee Break

Info: Stalls and materials relating to this summit will be available to see during this break, downstairs.


🕑: 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM
Solutions and Actions
Host: Kate Kelman/ Phillip Ritchie LEP
🕑: 01:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Panel and SLIDO Questions
Host: SLIDO - Ella Hurt
🕑: 01:30 PM - 02:00 PM
Lunch
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Surgeons Quarter, 10 Hill Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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