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Warwickshire Local Skills Improvement Plan

The Warwickshire LSIP, delivered by Coventry and Warwickshire Chambers of Commerce, Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce and in partnership with the Warwickshire County Council, is gathering insights from employers to understand:

- What skills your local businesses currently need or expect to need in future years
- What actions businesses are already taking to train or upskill staff
- What support employers would find most valuable from the regional skills system

Building on the work of the previous, West Midlands and Warwickshire LSIP, this research will help to shape the future of skills provision across Warwickshire area for years to come.

As part of the research process, we are reaching out to local employers to get your feedback on the below questions.

Please note: All responses are confidential and will be reported only in aggregate. Responses will be used solely to inform understanding and planning, not to appraise or penalise any respondent organisation. We will not share your contact information with third parties without your explicit permission.
1.What are the main skills or recruitment challenges facing your organisation or the employers you work with right now?
Prompts: Which roles or skill levels are hardest to fill? Are these gaps new or persistent?(Required.)
2.How are these skills needs currently being addressed?
Prompts: Are you using in-house training, colleges, universities, commercial providers, Bootcamps, apprenticeships, or publicly funded skills training? What drives those choices?(Required.)
3.What influences whether you/an employer engages with a particular training route or provider?
Prompts: Cost, relevance, flexibility, quality, past experience, funding availability, ease of access, bureaucracy, trust?(Required.)
4.What stops you/employers from engaging more fully with training and upskilling support?
Prompts: Awareness, time, trust, capacity, funding rules, eligibility criteria, inflexible provision, administrative burden?(Required.)
5.Can you share any examples of successful employer–provider collaboration you’ve seen or been part of?
Prompts: What made it work (e.g., co-design, flexibility, shared costs, trusted relationships)? How could it be scaled or replicated across the region?(Required.)
6.What does meaningful co-design of training look like from your perspective?
Prompts: How much involvement do employers want in shaping course content, delivery modes, or assessment? What would make it easier to collaborate?(Required.)
7.In your experience, how have you used public skills investments to meet your employer needs?
Prompts: What’s working well? What could be improved (e.g., course offer, eligibility, pace of approval, communication)?(Required.)
8.How could skills funding be used more flexibly or efficiently to respond to emerging skills gaps?
Prompts: Shorter courses, modular delivery, shared funding models, pooled employer consortia, fast-response pilots?(Required.)
9.What needs to happen to scale up the most effective training models region-wide?
Prompts: What support, coordination, or incentives would make that possible? Which stakeholders should lead?(Required.)
10.If you could change one thing about how the regional skills system operates, what would it be?
Prompts: What would make the biggest difference for employers and learners in Warwickshire? What do you think should be a high priority?(Required.)
11.Would you be willing to participate in a short follow-up session to test potential solutions or pilot approaches?(Required.)
12.If yes, please provide your name, organisation and email address below