The Employer Led Skills (ELS) project, led by Cornwall Marine Network and part funded by the European Social Fund will support 3,090 individuals through a collaborative partnership of 9 Delivery Partners.
It will address identified skills gaps across Cornwall & Isles of Scilly through the delivery of practical, flexible and effective business-led programmes designed to up-skill and re-skill the workforce across a range of sectors including Agri-Food, Construction, Digital, Health and Social Care, Hospitality, Manufacturing, Marine and Retail.
The project will support both accredited and non-accredited skills and is being delivered through a collaborative partnership of 9 Delivery Partners to address local strategic economic priorities and skills needs in identified priority sectors for Cornwall & Isles of Scilly (C&IoS): Agri-Food, Construction, Digital, Health and Social Care, Hospitality, Manufacturing, Marine and Retail.
This cross-sector approach will facilitate re-training/re-skilling programmes to equip individuals with transferable skills to enable them to move into growing and newer knowledge intensive sectors.
Sector Delivery partners include:
| Sector | Delivery Partners |
| Agri-food | To be Procured |
| Construction | Cornwall Council, Focus Training & The Cornwall College Group |
| Digital – Software | Software Cornwall |
| Digital – Wider | Digital Peninsula Network |
| Health and Social Care | Cornwall Council, Dynamo Healthcare & Cornwall Adult Education |
| Hospitality | Truro and Penwith College |
| SMEs and large company supply chain | Cornwall Chamber of Commerce |
| Manufacturing | Cornwall Marine Network on behalf of Cornwall Manufacturers Group |
| Marine | Cornwall Marine Network |
| Retail | Cornwall Marine Network on behalf of Cornwall Business Improvement Districts |
