About the Alliance of Sector Skills Councils

The UK currently has 25 employer-led Sector Skills Councils (SSCs). The Alliance of Sector Skills Councils was established in 2008 to act as their collective voice.

• SSC’s are employer-owned organisations that aim to establish, advance and maintain the education, skills and training of people employed in business and industry, including the public sector.
• SSC footprints include 1,707,885 enterprises and cover 90% of the workforce across the UK.
• Alliance members have in total 350 senior employers from every sector of the UK economy on their individual SSC boards.
• SSCs have a robust and distinctive evidence base for skills development in their sectoral Labour Market Intelligence (LMI).
• The Private Sector-serving SSCs show gains of between £100m and £130m a year to skills provision from Government and Industry investment of £5m a year. When viewed together, this indicates an average ‘amplification value’ of at least 20 times the original investment for each SSC.

Alliance of Sector Skills Councils’ Mission

The Alliance is committed to:

• Articulating the collective voice of its members when and where it really matters.
• Promoting the distinctive role of SSCs in the skills and employment infrastructure.
• Supporting SSCs in their role of developing standards and qualifications that meet employers’ needs.
• Enabling SSCs to deliver first class, consistent and accessible Labour Market Intelligence.
• Establishing new arrangements for the development of cross sector skills like Leadership and Management.
• Ensuring that members receive key information and guidance on priority topics.
• Co-ordinating activity to help build the capacity and capability of SSCs.

Contact

For more information on the Alliance of Sector Skills Councils, please see the following links:

Website: http://www.sscalliance.org/

E-mail: info@sscalliance.org