Meet the Council: Your City. Your Say (Skills)

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Working together to ensure the best for Doncaster, the Chamber network and the local authority, Doncaster What’s Next: Your City. Your Say offers businesses the opportunity to participate in important conversation’s about where we are heading as a collective.

As outlined in our forward-looking vision, Doncaster ’35: A Manifesto for a Winning City,  we want to raise the bar for Doncaster so that it can become  a place where businesses thrive through increased access to investment, the brightest possible talent, a bustling urban core and much, much more. This, of course, is within the context of local and national economic challenges for the business community and the Chamber’s strategic partners. 

The Your City. Your Say events offer you a chance to join a constructive dialogue with our city’s leaders and to have your voice heard on this issue. Hosted by Doncaster Chamber CEO, Dan Fell, the conversations will feature the likes of Mayor Ros Jones CBE, Chief Exec of Doncaster Council, Damian Allen, and various subject matter experts from the local authority.

In addition to this open forum, delegates will have the opportunity to network, while engaging with representatives and exhibitors from a range of departments across the council. Here, you will also be able to learn about what is happening next when it comes to key projects that will hopefully drive our city forward.

From our everyday conversations with members, we know that there is a need for increased access to higher education and better collaboration between educational institutions and the business community here in Doncaster. Indeed, addressing the skills gap is a priority. Across all sectors in the UK, recruitment is proving to be a significant challenge, many employers are struggling to find suitable candidates capable of filling their outstanding vacancies, and there is a great disparity between the skills that people are offering and the skills that businesses actually need

Education & Skills 2030 is Team Doncaster’s long-term strategy for the future of lifelong learning in our borough. It sets out the strengths and challenges of the Skills System as it is now, and then provides an ambitious, progressive vision for the future, including details of what an even more effective and forward-looking system could look like here.

This Your City. Your Say session will offer businesses the opportunity to hear more about the positive plans in motion for improving education and skills in Doncaster, and will also provide an opportunity for you to input into the conversation with your own insights and ideas.