Skills in Practice: How Uredale will grow its workforce

An in-person skills roundtable for professionals interested in Uredale’s workforce and skills challenges.

Build a shared understanding of skills and workforce challenges affecting young people, adult learners and career changers, and identify practical, collaborative actions that employers, education providers, policy makers and local government can take together.

An opening panel will explore the local workforce landscape, followed by an employer panel. Participants will then work in small, mixed groups on recruitment and retention, pathways into work, soft skills and work readiness, and how everyone can work together better.

• Local SMEs
• Education and Training Providers
• Public Sector and Policy
• Support Organisations

• Leigh Mills, Head of Skills, Education and Employment, YNYCA
• Matt Seddon, Policy & Representation Executive, West and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce
• Danny Wild, Principal, Harrogate College
• Lorraine Kirkbitson, Training Manager, Yorkshire Construction Training Board.
• Alex Miles, Managing Director, Yorkshire Learning Providers
• Bob Walker, Head of Careers, Ripon Grammar School
• Katie Sharman, Managing Director, Econ Engineering
• Natasha Hood, Global Head of HR, O&3

Info: Why growth matters to Uredale; what employers and education providers have told us; what we're aiming to achieve; how this feeds into the LSIP.

Info: LSIP skills priorities; Uredale specific population and qualification data, most advertised jobs, most requested skills in last 12 months; education and apprenticeship pipelines; the adult education and employment support picture

Info: Uredale businesses that have grown and thrived here: why they succeeded, what enabled it, and what that suggests is already working locally.

Info: Four parallel groups, one per theme:
(1) Recruitment and Retention: Hard-to-Fill Vacancies and Workforce Development
(2) Pathways into Work: Young People, Adult Learners and Career Changers
(3) Soft Skills, Digital Readiness and Work Readiness
(4) System Change: How Employers, Education/Training Providers and Public Sector Work Together Better

Info: Each group reports back; common themes, conflicts and priorities drawn out and positioned against the LSIP 2026–2029.

Info: What specific commitments employers, education providers and public sector are ready to make in the next six months.

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Town Hall, 37 Market Place South, Ripon, United Kingdom

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