Issue - items at meetings - Interim Work and Skills Plan

Report of the Director of Housing, Culture and Enterprise (copy attached).

Contact Officer: Cheryl Finella            Tel: 29-1095

Wards Affected: All

(1) The Cabinet Member notes the content of the report and proposed actions.

12.1    The Cabinet Member considered a report of the Director of Housing, Culture and Enterprise detailing the Interim Work and Skills Plan and setting it into its policy context. The report was intended to provide a summary of the Interim Work and Skills Plan for Brighton & Hove and outlined the work required to produce a three-year work and skills plan for the city by March 2011.

12.2    Councillor Davis welcomed the report and sought  information regarding the  structures which would be put into place to seek to ensure that there was information resources  and expertise where shared effectively. The Head of the Arts and Creative Industries Unit outlined the different approaches and strategies used explaining however that funding was an issue.

12.4    Councillor Kennedy welcomed the report and was pleased to note the partnership initiatives which were in place and recognised the importance of on-going funding streams. She asked how priority areas for delivery were assessed and the context of these initiatives in the context of work in deprived communities. It was important in her view to  dovetail these with other  work being carried out to address specific areas of deprivation.

12.5    The Cabinet Member welcomed the comments made  and stated that he had attended very productive meetings at which it had been clear that there was an awareness of the need to identify which strategies had been most effective, why and how that work could be carried forward.

12.6    RESOLVED - That the Cabinet Member notes the content of the report and proposed actions.