Skills Roadmap and other strategies
The Skills Roadmap for London sets the direction of travel for adult education and skills in London over the Mayoral term and beyond, including future plans for the approximately £320 million per year Adult Education Budget (AEB).
Skills Roadmap for London
The Skills Roadmap for London will help Londoners to access good jobs and to lead happier, healthier lives. It sets out how the Mayor will ensure London’s skills offer better serves London’s communities and economies, building on the success of the delegation of the Adult Education Budget (AEB) to the Mayor in 2019.
The Roadmap includes the actions the Mayor will take over this Mayoral term to ensure skills provision, learning and adult education are locally relevant, make an impact, and are accessible:
- locally relevant means developing a more integrated skills and employment system, meeting the needs of businesses and employers, and fostering learning that supports progression
- making an impact means measuring the social and economic impact of adult education and focusing on evaluation and best practice
- accessible means raising awareness of London’s skills and learning offer, supporting adult education providers as Anchor Institutions in their communities, and investing in physical and digital learning spaces.
The Roadmap was developed based on extensive consultation with stakeholders, communities and businesses. It was also informed by a suite of research, evidence and data analysis. Insight from our consultation, engagement and research is available on London Datastore.
Other strategies
Find out more about the Mayor's other strategies and policies relating to skills and employment in the capital using the drop downs below.
Recovery from the coronavirus pandemic will take all of us working together: City Hall, local councils, the NHS, businesses, universities, charities, trade unions, community and faith groups and all Londoners. These groups have come together to build London’s plans for recovery from the pandemic and together have set out nine bold missions to restore confidence in our city and make London greener, fairer and safer than ever before.
One of these missions is ‘Helping Londoners into Good Work’. The goal of the mission is to support Londoners into good jobs with a focus on areas which are key to London’s recovery, like creative, green and digital jobs.
After delegation of the AEB in 2019, London government – the Mayor of London and London Councils – came together to call for a new devolution and funding deal from government to establish an integrated, properly funded skills and employment system that can meet the city’s challenges now and in the future.
The Call for Action sets out the challenges London’s skills and employment system must face up to, and why London needs a new wave of devolution alongside powers to retain a greater amount of taxes raised in the capital.
The capital’s record on delivering devolution to date, the Mayor’s mandate and labour market intelligence, and the boroughs’ reach into local communities mean London government, acting together – and in partnership with London’s businesses and skills providers - is best placed to address these challenges and tailor solutions to local communities.
Skills for Londoners is the first post-16 skills and adult education strategy produced by a London Mayor. It sets out the contextual skills challenges London faces, along with the priorities and actions required to make the London skills system the envy of the world and achieve the Mayor's vision for:
'A City for all Londoners - making sure Londoners, employers and businesses get the skills they need to succeed in a fair, inclusive society and thriving economy.'
Alongside the Strategy the Mayor published his Skills for Londoners Framework. The Framework outlines how the objectives of the Strategy will be delivered in the context of the devolution of the Adult Education Budget (AEB) in London to the Mayor from the academic year 2019-20,
The Mayor consulted stakeholders on the Skills for Londoners Strategy and Framework on an annual basis, through his ‘Skills for Londoners Framework Consultation’. He also published a Skills for Londoners evidence base to support the strategy.
In the Skills Roadmap for London the Mayor asked further and higher education providers to lead by example in their local communities, particularly those which are Anchor Institutions. This means that they are:
- Good employers, who are building an inclusive and representative workforce
- Meeting or are working towards the Mayors Good Work Standard (GWS) and paying a living wage
- Playing their part in helping London become a net zero carbon city by 2030.
The Skills Roadmap toolkits have been designed to help further and higher education providers to deliver against these expectations,
Explore the toolkits for London’s Adult Education Providers below: