Sector Skills Councils (SSCs)
Each of the 25 SSCs is an employer-led, independent organisation that covers a specific sector across the UK. The four key goals are:
- to reduce skills gaps and shortages
- improve productivity, business and public service performance
- increase opportunities to boost the skills and productivity of everyone in the sector's workforce
- improve learning supply including apprenticeships, higher education and National Occupational Standards (NOS).
The 25 Sector Skills Councils are as follows:
Asset Skills - Property, housing, cleaning & facilities management
Automotive Skills - The retail motor industry
Cogent - Chemicals, nuclear, oil and gas, petroleum and polymer industries
Construction Skills - Construction
Energy & Utility Skills - Electricity, gas, waste management and water industries
e-skills - UK Information technology, telecommunications and contact centres
Financial Services Skills Council - Financial services industry
GoSkills - Passenger transport
Improve - Food & drink manufacturing and processing
Lantra - Environmental and land-based industries
Lifelong Learning UK - Community based learning and development, further education, higher education, library and information services, work based learning
People 1st - Hospitality, leisure, travel & tourism
SEMTA - Science, engineering and manufacturing technologies
Skillfast-UK - Apparel, footwear and textile industry
Skills for Health - All staff groups working in the NHS, independent and voluntary health organisations
Skills for Justice - Custodial care, community justice and police
Skills for Logistics - Freight Logistics Industry Rail road, deep sea, short sea, Air and Waterways
Skills Active - Active leisure and learning
Skillset - Broadcast, film, video, interactive media and photo imaging
Skillsmart retail - Retail
SummitSkills - Building services engineering (Electro-technical), heating, air conditioning, refrigeration, and plumbing)
Government Skills Council - Central Government
Creative and Cultural Skills - Arts, museums and galleries, heritage, crafts and design
Proskills Process and manufacturing of extractives, coatings, refractories, building products, paper and print
Skills for Care and Development Social care including
children, families and young children